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Alexandra Kollontai
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ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI, born 150 years ago on March 31 1872, was an outstanding figure in the Russian communist movement.
Kollontai’s active political work began with workers’ evening classes, through which she became part of the Political Red Cross, an organisation supporting political prisoners.
She participated in leafleting and fundraising campaigns in support of a mass strike in the textile industry, an experience that consolidated her certainty of the need for proletarian revolution. In 1899 she joined the illegal Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
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