Chernov, Viktor (vēk`tər chĭrnôf`), 1876–1952, Russian revolutionary. One of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary party Socialist Revolutionary party, in Russian history, an agrarian party founded by various Populist groups in 1901. Its program, adopted in 1906, called for the overthrow of the autocracy, the establishment of a classless society, self-determination for national
..... Click the link for more information. , he served as minister of agriculture under Kerensky Kerensky, Aleksandr Feodorovich (kərĕn`skē, Rus.
..... Click the link for more information. in the provisional government set up after the overthrow of the czar in Nov., 1917 (Oct., 1917, O.S.). He was president of the short-lived constituent assembly (Jan., 1918). After its dissolution, Chernov headed an anti-Bolshevik government in Samara. Early in 1921 he fled abroad. He died in New York City. Chernov wrote The Great Russian Revolution (tr. 1936).

Chernov, Viktor (Mikhaylovich)

(born Nov. 19, 1873, Kamyshin, Russia—died April 15, 1952, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Russian revolutionary, cofounder of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party. A revolutionist from 1893, he became a member of his party's central committee in 1902 and wrote the party's platform. In 1917 he served briefly as minister of agriculture. He was elected president of the constituent assembly that opened in Petrograd on Jan. 18, 1918, but was dispersed the next day by the Bolsheviks. He emigrated in 1920, wrote (sometimes as Boris Olenin) and lived in Paris until 1940, then went to the U.S., where he wrote for anticommunist periodicals.