Alexandra Kollontai
1872 – 1952 Russian Revolutionary, feminist, and Soviet diplomat
The Bolshevik feminist and diplomat who championed women's liberation.
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox noble background; a militant atheist.
- Affiliations
- Bolshevik Party; leader of the Workers' Opposition; commissar for social welfare; later a Soviet ambassador.
Kollontai came from the nobility but became a leading Bolshevik and the most prominent woman in the early Soviet government. She pushed for women's rights, communal childcare, and new ideas about love and the family. Later sidelined at home, she served for years as one of the world's first female ambassadors.
Connections
- associate of Vladimir Lenin — A prominent Bolshevik who clashed with Lenin over the Workers' Opposition.