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
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
The Council of People's Commissars, commonly known as the Sovnarkom, were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet republ
The Council of People's Commissars in 1919. Title reads "Top Authority of the Russian Soviet Republic"