Alexandra Kollontai

Soviet politician and diplomat (1872–1952)

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 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 one of the first women to be appointed as a diplomatic representative of a modern state, and the first to be promoted to the rank of ambassador.

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