Jailbirds of Kerensky (russian: Птенцы Керенского, Ptentsy Kerenskogo) was the informal term used during the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

for people who were released from Russian jails on amnesty. A total of three amnesties were enacted by Russian Minister of Justice

Alexander Kerensky Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, ; Reforms of Russian orthography, original spelling: ( – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months ...

in 1917. According to some historians, about 90,000 political prisoners were released along with an unknown number of non-political prisoners. When Kerensky was appointed a minister of Justice in the newly established

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, on Russian Ministry of Justice abolished special civil courts,

Okhranka The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order (russian: Отделение по охранению общественной безопасности и порядка), usually called Guard Department ( rus, Охранное отд ...

(Russian

secret police Secret police (or political police) are intelligence, security or police agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, religious, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of a ...

), and the Russian Gendarmerie. On the Kerensky's ministry issued an order of political amnesty. Following that on there was announced military amnesty and after three days the Ministry of Justice issued a ruling "On the relief of the fate of persons who have committed criminal offenses" (russian: Об облегчении участи лиц, совершивших уголовные преступления). Following the amnesty, on 22 March 1917 bureau of the Central Committee of the

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adopted resolution about the Provisional Government which stated that the main task of Soviets is "universal arming of people and, in particular, immediate creation of the workers'

Red Guards Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard lead ...

throughout the country".Konev, A.
Red Guards on the defence of the October, organization of the first detachments of Red Guards and how they were armed (Красная Гвардия на защите Октября - Организация первых отрядов Красной гвардии и их вооружение)
'. Leninism. On 26 March 1917 this decision was published in the newspaper ''"

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"''.

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* Syromiatnikov, N.
"Jailbirds of Kerensky": the First Criminal Revolution in Russia («Птенцы Керенского»: первая криминальная революция в России)
'. Russkaya 7. 5 January 2018 * Galperin, Ye.
Jailbirds of Kerensky (Птенцы Керенского)
'. Rabies of the Bastard. "Litres". 2017 {{russia-stub 1917 in Russia Clemency Crime in Russia Russian Provisional Government Russian Revolution

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