Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer who played a key political role in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Kerensky held some of the most important ranks in the newly formed Russian Provisional Government after the revolution; he first joined as the Minister of Justice and later served as the Minister of War. He also held the government's second Minister-Chairman post. As a student of law, Kerensky used to defend revolutionaries accused of political offenses as well as supported Russia’s participation in the First World War. However, he didn’t appreciate the tsarist regime’s conduct of the war effort. When the February Revolution of 1917 broke out, he publicly advocated in favor of the dissolution of the monarchy. He was a part of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the Petrograd Soviet, and was also a part of Duma; hence he was seen as a strong symbol of the working class. The political environment in Russia remained tense throughout 1917 and the newly formed government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in November the same year. Following this, Kerensky had to leave the country and flee to Paris and then to New York to live in exile.