1.10 Spring of Hopes 1917 and Lenin's Arrival in Russia

IT company Aston presents the most instructive century in Russian history, the lessons of the 20th Century, to learn to understand the present. In March 1917, the spring of hopes arrived in Russia, along with all the age-old problems Russia had. That page of history was turned; the old ministers, all puffed up in gold, disappeared somewhere. Well, some were simply arrested, and now Russia was ruled by such remarkable statesmen and its best minds as Lvov, looking more like some British prime minister than a Russian minister, Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky. Well, what a nice guy, such a lawyer, such a fighter for the rights of peoples. In fact, it was he who became the leader of the very initial stage of reforms, although he was the Minister of Justice. But it was precisely justice, fairness, one might say, and law that were supposed to come to [music] Russia. In March 1917, a political amnesty was carried out, and political prisoners from Siberian mines flocked to the capital, Petrograd, something Pushkin himself dreamed of in his time. On March 12, the death penalty was abolished. It must be said that Kerensky later returned to this issue many times: can one rule Russia without the death penalty, without the state's right to kill a person? Will the foundations, so to speak, crack?