Alexandra Kollontai

Kollontai, Alexandra, 1872-1952

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:47:17 +0000

Alexandra Kollontai was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement from the turn of the century through the revolution and civil war. During periods of exile she was also active as a speaker and writer in Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Scandinavia and the United States.

Women fighters in the days of the great October Revolution - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:26:32 +0000

The women who took part in the Great October Revolution – who were they? Isolated individuals? No, there were hosts of them; tens, hundreds of thousands of nameless heroines who, marching side by side with the workers and peasants behind the Red Flag and the slogan of the Soviets, passed over the ruins of tsarist theocracy into a new future...

International Women's Day - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:13:48 +0000

A militant celebration
Women's Day or Working Women's Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women.

The Workers' Opposition - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:48:26 +0000

First published in Pravda, January 25, 1921 this text was banned in Soviet Russia in March of 1921, by resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party. It was then printed in the Workers ' Dreadnought (by Sylvia Pankhurst), April 22 - August 19, 1921.

On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:31:33 +0000

What year could be said to mark the beginning of the working women's movement in Russia?