# Victor Tchernov — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Victor Tchernov in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Tchernov, Victor Tchernov

**First appearance:** 0011-i-background

## Snapshot

Victor Tchernov, the Socialist Revolutionary leader and Minister of Agriculture, watches his peasant party's inheritance slip away as the Bolsheviks seize the land decree.

## Who they are

Tchernov heads the traditional peasant party and holds the agriculture portfolio in a Provisional Government already hollowed out by Kerensky's flight. His authority over the countryside is being undercut by Lenin's decrees and emissaries sent over the heads of the old Peasants' Soviets. In the early-middle arc, he represents the old order's fading claim on the villages, a legitimacy the Bolsheviks are systematically dismantling.

## In the story

### [Political Parties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/political-parties)

Listed as a leader of the Socialist Revolutionary party.

### [Background](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/i-background)

Socialist Revolutionary minister; criticized for signing manifesto dissolving Finnish Diet.

### [IX: Victory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/ix-victory)

Mentioned as a potential new Premier and as leading a 'neutral' delegation at Gatchina.

### [XI: The Conquest of Power](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/xi-the-conquest-of-power)

Tchernov is mentioned as the tentative Premier in the proposed coalition government.

### [XII: The Peasants’ Congress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/xii-the-peasants-congress)

Speaks at the Congress with modest impartiality, remains popular but is ultimately outmaneuvered by the Bolshevik-Left SR agreement.

### [Appendix to Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-i)

Listed as a Socialist Revolutionary who joined the coalition ministry in June.

### [The Socialist Ministers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/3-the-socialist-ministers)

Tchernov is listed as one of the Socialist Revolutionaries who joined the coalition ministry.

### [From the Council of People’s Commissars to the Toiling Cossacks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/16-from-the-council-of-people-s-commissars-to-the-toiling-cossacks)

Mentioned as one of the leaders who drove the July 1st offensive, opposed to the Bolshevik peace policy.

### [Appeals to the Front Against Dukhonin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/19-appeals-to-the-front-against-dukhonin)

Listed among the former ministers gathering at the Stavka to form a new power against the Soviets.

### [Appendix to Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-xii)

Mentioned as the leader of the moderate wing initially supported by the Peasants' Congress.

### [The Peasants' Congress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/2)

Led the moderate faction that briefly gained support from the Congress.

## Links

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