Viktor Chernov

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Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov (1873 – 1952) was a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901/1902.

Under Alexander Kerensky's provisional government in 1917, Chernov was the Minister for Agriculture. He was also the president of the Petrograd constituent assembly. Following the Bolsheviks' rise to power, he became a member of an anti-Bolshevik government in Samara, before fleeing to Europe and then the United States. He died there, in New York City, in 1952.

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• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9023845, accessed October 2, 2005.
• http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chernov.html, accessed October 2, 2005.