Alexander Shliapnikov
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Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader o
Alexander Shliapnikov
Shliapnikov c. 1925
Alexander Shliapnikov (on left) with Leonid Krasin in 1924
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
Kollontai, c. 1900
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International Socialist Congress, Copenhagen 1910. Alexandra Kollontai holds a delegate's hand.