Description
Alexandra Kollontai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and one of the most famous women in Russian history. She worked tirelessly all her life as a speaker, writer, and organizer for women's emancipation. This compelling biography recounts her life for an emerging generation of fighters for women's liberation.
Cathy Porter is a translator, teacher, and researcher on Russian history. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution and translator of Alexandra Kollontai's Love of Worker Bees.
Author: Cathy Porter
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781608463688
ISBN10: 1608463680
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
Cathy Porter was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the political life and intellectual ideas of the nineteenth - and twentieth-century Russia. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution, and translator of Kollontai's fiction Love of Worker Bees. Porter lives in London and divides her time between translating, teaching literacy and researching Russian history.