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Alexandra Kollontai

1872 - 1952

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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich, Домонтович; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highly prominent woman within the Bolshevik party. She was the first woman in history to be a cabinet minister, and the first woman ambassador. The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced radical politics in the 1890s and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandra Kollontai is the 9th most popular diplomat (down from 8th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Russia (up from 91st in 2019) and the most popular Russian Diplomat.

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, feminist, and diplomat. She was one of the most important figures in the Bolshevik government after the October Revolution.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 9 out of 90. Before her are Dag Hammarskjöld, Gaius Marius, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, John Jay, Ban Ki-moon, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After her are John R. Bolton, Raoul Wallenberg, Antony Blinken, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adlai Stevenson II, and Mohamed ElBaradei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 7. Before her are Roald Amundsen, Piet Mondrian, Haakon VII of Norway, Bertrand Russell, Alexandra Feodorovna, and Richard Willstätter. After her are Calvin Coolidge, Charles Greeley Abbot, Johan Huizinga, Edith Wilson, Emil Hácha, and Léon Blum. Among people deceased in 1952, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 6. Before her are George VI, Maria Montessori, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, and John Dewey. After her are Chaim Weizmann, Wilm Hosenfeld, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Benedetto Croce, and Sven Hedin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 86 out of 3,761. Before her are Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Boris Godunov (1552), Feodor I of Russia (1557), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869). After her are Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Roman Jakobson (1896), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Andrei Rublev (1360), and Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Russia

Among diplomats born in Russia, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 1. After her are Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Vatslav Vorovsky (1871), Max Jakobson (1923), and Vasily Nebenzya (1962).

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