Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Marxist progressive, first as an individual from the
Mensheviks, at that point from 1915 on as a Bolshevik (later Communist). In
1922, Kollontai was named a discretionary advocate to the Soviet legation in
Norway, being before long elevated to leader of the legation, one of the main
ladies to hold such a post.
Alexandra Kollontai kicked the bucket in Moscow
on 9 March 1952, not exactly a month from her 80th birthday celebration. She
was the main individual from the Bolsheviks' Central Committee that had driven
the October Revolution that figured out how to endure the Stalinist cleanses
other than Stalin himself.She has once in a while been scrutinized and even
held up to scorn for not raising her voice during the cleanses, when, among
incalculable others, her previous spouse, her previous sweetheart and battling
confidant, thus numerous companions of hers were shamefully killed. What's
more, it has been noted, at the time she "was sheltered in her extravagant
Stockholm habitation". Regardless, it ought to likewise be brought up
that, all things considered, Kollontai did not appreciate a full freedom of
activity and needed to stress over the potential destinies of her family. It
probably won't have been unadulterated possibility if both her solitary child
and her artist half-nephew (whom she had much upheld toward the start of his
profession) additionally came sound through the oppression of the Stalinist
system, to the foundation of which she had anyway altogether contributed.
The resurgence of radicalism during the 1960s
and the development of the women's activist development during the 1970s
impelled another enthusiasm for the life and compositions of Alexandra
Kollontai all around the globe. A spate of books and flyers by and about
Kollontai were therefore distributed, including full-length life stories by
history specialists Cathy Porter, Beatrice Farnsworth, and Barbara Evans
Clements. Kollontai was the subject of the 1994 TV film, A Wave of Passion: The
Life of Alexandra Kollontai, with Glenda Jackson as the voice of Kollontai. A
female Soviet ambassador during the 1930s with unusual perspectives on
sexuality, most likely propelled by Kollontai, had been played by Greta Garbo
in the film Ninotchka (1939).
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