Alexandra Kollontai – Biography

Biographical information Name Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Born March thirty- firstborn 1872 in St. Petersburg Died March 9th 1952 in Moscow Occupation Russian commie revolutionary, Soviet Ambassador to Norway Family background Kollontai was born to a relatively besotted family. Her father, General Mikhail Alekseevich Domontovich, served as a Calvary officer in the Russo-Turkish contend and was an advisor to the Russian administration in Bulgaria. Kollontais fix, Alexandra Androvna Masalina-Mravinskaia, was a missy of a Finnish peasant who made a fortune marketing wood.Kollontais parents long and difficult struggle to be together would colour her views on relationships, sex and marriage. Kollontai was extremely close with her father, two sharing an interest in history and politics. Education Kollontais mother and her nanny were demanding, There was order in everything, on that point was order in everything to tidy up toys myself, to lay my underwear on a junior-grade c hair at night, to wash neatly, to study my lessons on time, to treat the servants with delight in.Alexandra was considered a good student, mastering a range of languages. She spoke cut with her mothers and sisters, English to her Nanny, Finnish with the peasants at a family estate, and she was a student of German. Alexandra wanted to continue her education at university but her mother said that there was no real need for women to have higher education. Political social station At the time of the split in the Russian well-disposed democrat Labour Party in 1903, into the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, Kollontai did not side with either.Kollontai then first joined the Mensheviks but then in 1915 finally joined the Bolsheviks. later the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Kollontai became the Peoples Commissar for Social Welfare. Kollontai founded the Zhenotdel or Womens Department in 1919. This organisation worked to improve the agree of womens lives in the Soviet Union, fighting ill iteracy and educating women about the raw(a) marriage laws put in place by the revolution. Revolutionary activitiesKollontais first activities were timid and modest, helping out a few hours a week with her sister at a library that supported sunlight classes in basic literacy for urban workers, sneaking a few collectivised ideas into the lesson sideways. At this library, Kollontai met Elena Stasova, an activist in the budding Marxist movement in St. Petersburg. Stasova began using Kollontai as a courier, transporting parcels of illegal writings to unknown individuals.In 1898 Kollontai leftfield to study Economics in Zurich, Switzerland. She then paid a forebode to England, where she met shares of the British Labour party. She returned to Russia in 1899, at which time she met Vladimir Lenin. She became a member of the Russian Social Democrat Labour Party in 1899. Kollontai went in exile, to Germany in 1908 after publishing Finland and Socialism, which called on the Finnish spat e to rise up against oppression within the Russian empire.