Ada Nilsson
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Ada Konstantia Nilsson was an early Swedish woman medical doctor. She was one of the founders of the campaigning magazine Tidevarvet in 1923.
Ada Nilsson 1935
1920s Left to right: Elisabeth Tamm, Ada Nilsson, Kerstin Hesselgren (sitting), Honorine Hermelin and Elin Wägner
Alexandra Kollontai
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai 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 w
Ada Nilsson
…The magazine was to publish until 1936 and for three years (1925-28) the magazine ran a free consultancy but it was difficult to fund. Nilsson met Aleksandra Kollontaj, a Russian diplomat and later ambassador to Sweden in the early 1930s. Nilsson cared for Kollontaj when her health started to decline and their…
Kollontai, c. 1900
1888 portrait
International Socialist Congress, Copenhagen 1910. Alexandra Kollontai holds a delegate's hand.
Alexander Shliapnikov, Kollontai's fighting comrade and, for some time, her lover