Kollontai (at right) in 1921 with Clara Zetkin at an International Women's Conference The great Bolshevik revolutionary, leader, Marxist thinker, women's rights advocate and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai wrote this account of the history, necessity and importance of International Women's Day in 1920. Kollontai played an important role in the Bolshevik Revolution itself, was the People's Commissar of Social Welfare in the first Soviet government -- which made her the first woma

Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai at the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 -- Daily LIFT #1390 To learn more about...

A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...

Nikolai Shvernik, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and Soviet head of State in 1945, presents Alexandra...

In honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Bolshevik revolutionary and leader we repost a Soviet account of her life...