Alexandra Kollontai

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Alexandra Kollontai

Александра Коллонтай
Born31 March 1872
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died9 March 1952
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political orientationMarxism
Marxist feminism


Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian communist revolutionary and proletarian feminist. She criticized bourgeois feminism as well as the class reductionism of some other Marxists.[1]

Pre-revolution

Kollontai was born in 1872 and organized the socialist women's movement in Russia and Europe before the October Revolution.[1] She wrote a 1913 article in Pravda about International Women's Day.[2]

Political career

Kollontai returned to Russia in 1918 after the October Revolution and became the People's Commissar for Welfare and was the first woman in the world to be a cabinet official.[1] She held that position until 1924 and helped negotiate a peace treaty with Finland in 1940.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jodi Dean (2020-08-14). "Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 1): The struggle for proletarian feminism and for women in the party" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Regina Joseph (2023-03-01). "On International Women's Day, let's remember Alexandra Kollontai" Fight Back! News. Retrieved 2023-03-04.