Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)
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She was the first woman ever to serve as a cabinet minister — anywhere — and later the first to hold the rank of ambassador. But Alexandra Kollontai's real collision with history came in 1917, when she voted for armed uprising and helped bring down a government, then tried to steer the revolution toward women's liberation before the party ground her down.
The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai turned radical in the 1890s and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1899, initially siding with the Mensheviks against Lenin. Exiled in 1908, she toured Europe and the U.S., broke with the Mensheviks in 1915, and threw in with the Bolsheviks. After the February Revolution ousted Nicholas II, she returned to Russia, voted on the Central Committee for the October uprising, and became People's Commissar for Social Welfare — the first woman cabinet minister in history. She resigned over the Brest-Litovsk treaty, then in 1…
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Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography. What should be emphasized? Just what is of general interest?
By looking back while prying, simultaneously, into the future, I will also be presenting to myself the most crucial turning points of my being and accomplishments.
I have succeeded in structuring my intimate life according to my own standards and I make no secret of my love experiences anymore than does a man.
I managed to become a member of a government cabinet, of the first Bolshevik cabinet in the years 1917/18.
I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.
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