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Alexandra Kollontai: Portrait of a Revolutionary

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by BARBARA EWING
When Alexandra Kollonta :
(1872-1952) became Commissar for Social Welfare in Lenin's first cabinet she was the only woman member of a modern government. Lenin valued her propagandist skills and in those heady, chaotic early days perhaps turned a blind eye to her insistence that 'the personal is political'. Soon, however, Kollontai's fiercely uncompromising democratic ideals brought her into conflict with her leader and the Party.
Reader LAURENCE PAYNE
Producer ED THOMASON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Ewing
Unknown:
Alexandra Kollonta
Reader:
Laurence Payne
Alexandra Kollontai:
Barbara Ewing
Lenin:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Petrov/Mayakovsky:
Mark Wing-Davey
Source: Radio Times

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