Illustrations

Shura, age 5. From A. Kollontai, Den första etappen (Stockholm: Bonniers, 1945).

Aleksandra Kollontai with husband Vladimir and son Misha, 1897. From A. Kollontai, Iz moei zhizni i raboty, ed. I. M. Dazhina (Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1974).

Vladimir Kollontai. Courtesy of Maria Jul Andersen.

Kollontai circa 1910. From Stormklockan, April 6, 1912.

Kollontai in 1912. From lz moei zhizni i raboty.

A meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars in early 1918. Kollontai is seated to Lenin’s left. Dybenko is standing behind and to the left of Kollontai. From Iz moei zhizni i raboty.

Kollontai at a nursery in Kiev, 1919. From Iz moei zhizni i raboty.

With Dybenko and his family, 1919. From Gustav Johansson, Revoltionens ambassador: Alexandra Kollontays liv och gaming, åren 1872-1917 (Stockholm: Arbetarkultursförlag, 1945).

Inessa Armand.
From Kommunistka, October 1920.

Clara Zetkin.
From Kommunistka, October 1920.

Aleksandr Shliapnikov. Courtesy of Craig Nation.

Ambassador Kollontai, before presenting her credentials to the Swedish court, 1930.

In Stockholm, 1944. The portrait is of Kollontai’s mother. Courtesy of Sonya Baevsky.

At the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow, June 1946, after presentation of the Norwegian Order of Saint Olaf. Sovfoto.