It was recently brought to this Blogger’s attention that if he stays alive a mite longer, he may well  be  the last living American to have shaken hands with Alexander Kerensky . Kerensky was a good guy, a Russian version of American President Jimmy Carter; he was Premier of the government which fell to the Bolsheviks. That might well be true, for this Blogger was at least fifteen years younger than any other participant at the seminar.   Kerensky could have saved the world from Communism; for as Premier, he had Lenin in his jail, at his mercy. But he did not disappear him, for Lenin was a family friend, who had been taught by Kerensky’s father.  Such is history.   This Blogger may also soon be the last living American to know men who participated in the Communist Red Terror of the Bolsheviks. This Blogger’s father knew many old Trotskyites; before they were Trotskyites, they were Bolsheviks. Stalinists   chased into exile, or the Gulag or onto their ...