Also known as Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay, Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai
Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
Alexandra Kollontai was a Soviet diplomat and revolutionary who lived from 1872 to 1952, playing a notable role in early Soviet politics and international relations. She matters historically as a significant figure in Soviet diplomacy during a transformative period, and as a woman who achieved prominence in high-level government positions during an era when few women held such roles.
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich [Домонтович]; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highly prominent woman within the Bolshevik party. She was the first woman in history to be a cabinet minister, and one of the first women to be appointed as a diplomatic representative of a modern state, and the first to be promoted to the rank of ambassador.
The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced radical politics in the 1890s and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1899. During the RSDLP ideological split, she sided with Julius Martov's Mensheviks against Lenin's Bolsheviks. Exiled from Russia in 1908, Kollontai toured Western Europe and the United States and campaigned against participation in the First World War. In 1915, she broke with the Mensheviks and became a member of the Bolsheviks.
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