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Kerensky was the first leader of the Russian Revolution who evoked the images of Napoleon’s regime. That these images were associated, indirectly or directly, with Kerensky indicates clearly that the idea of Napoleonic coup was in the air and that society was moving away from the romantic ‘false consciousness’ generated by the excitement of the first months of the revolution to ‘true consciousness’, that is, the assumption that a right-wing dictatorship similar to Napoleon’s was at hand.
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4 Kerensky as Napoleon (April-June 1917)
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Shlapentokh, D. (1999). Kerensky as Napoleon (April-June 1917). In: The Counter-Revolution in Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372160_6
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