Kerensky Says Soviet Rule Continues Shaky

Kerensky was in town yesterday.

Appearing as a surprise lecturer in Richard Pipes' History 155 course, the man some may remember as the Socialist premier of Russia whom Lenin overthrew in October 1917, talked on Russia's pre-1917 parliament.

"It's fruitless to speculate on Russia's future," he said after his talk, "because we just don't know enough. The chief characteristic of Soviet Russia seems to be instability, even for the privileged manager classes, but one can only guess how it will end."

"If Lenin had lived, the Communist regime might have ended many years ago," he added, "for he was a much more flexible man than Stalin, who got his way through his stubbornness." "I only met Lenin once, in 1917," Kerensky said.