Alexandra Kollontai

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Age: 45

Interests: Marxist feminism, Leninism, Marxism, communism

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

04.01.18

There was a big blizzard yesterday. Petrograd is all covered in snow like a village. The snow is not being cleaned, all street cleaners now occupy important positions in the ministries, they are now chiefs, inspectors, etc. See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

7, Kazanskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

31.12.17

People's Commissariat has issued a decree on forming a board tasked with creating a Department to protect motherhood and infancy. The Soviet authorities are the first in the world to acknowledge maternity as a social function legally. Given that a woman in a labor republic will always have labor duty, the Soviet government has decided to solve the problem of motherhood welfare from this point of view.

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7, Kazanskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

05.12.17

The Secretary of the Soviet, Alyosha Tsvetkov, set off on a reconnaissance mission. He came back with a report, stating that an amazingly well-equipped building had been found. It had everything: small, separate rooms, a canteen, a kitchen, all facilities, and - crucial in these hungry times - food supplies. See more

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7, Kazanskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

19.11.17

Women workers still barely participate actively in the Soviets. Nonetheless, since the very first days of Soviet rule, they have been able to bring to the Soviets a lively, productive discussion about easing the burden of motherhood for women.

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Alexandra Kollontai

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.11.17

Central Committee in session in the Smolny. Resolutions adopted: all members of the Central Committee have committed themselves to remain in the Smolny at all times. Official decisions taken to break with the appeasing Central Executive Committee; to intensify patrols around the Smolny; to set up machine-gun posts; to dispatch Dzerzhinsky to the Post and Telegraph buildings in order to secure these crucial communication centres for the revolution; to establish a reserve headquarters in the Peter and Paul Fortress in case the Smolny is taken out of the picture.

#Revolution. Online

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Alexandra Kollontai

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.11.17

The Provisional Government is bitter and disorganized. It issues one decree after another to the garrison. "Strict orders": arrest the MRC and the Bolshevik leaders, hold all mutineers responsible, et cetera. No one follows these orders anymore.

#Revolution. Online #The Petrograd Garrison

Alexandra Kollontai

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

05.11.17

An examination and inspection of Red Guard’s readiness for battle. The Smolny looks like a fortress: machine guns, rifles, boxes of ammunition. And our best comrade workers with rifles behind their backs… Worker women in nurse kerchiefs. The revolution headquarters are preparing an offensive.

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Alexandra Kollontai with Vladimir Lenin

Central Committee safe house, Petrograd, Russian Republic

24.10.17

The resolution of the Central Committee has chosen the course of “A.I.”: “armed insurrection is unavoidable. The time is ripe”. The Central Committee has ordered all organizations to prepare. See more

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Alfred Knox

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Republic (British Embassy)

24.10.17

Savinkov thinks that Kerensky is honest, but says that Trotsky (Bronstein) and Kamenev (Rosenfeldt) could be bought. Lenin and Kollontai are fanatics See more

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Julius Martov

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

21.10.17

I found neither in Trotsky’s speech, nor in the speech of Kollontai, nor in the Bolshevik declaration, nor in the resolution that they proposed now, any explanation for the reason why the Bolsheviks need to withdraw from the Pre-Parliament. See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

01.09.17

Parcels from factories and the navy suddenly stopped arriving again. What happened? What is the reason for this? I can’t sleep at night. I’m already used to criminals having rows at night, and now I’m awake, and thinking, thinking… I’ve started feeling unwell during my walk. They called a doctor. She was very strict and unemotional. She prescribed digitalis. Told me to stay in bed.

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Alexandra Kollontai

Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

31.08.17

Late August. In the mornings, the sun makes its way into the cell in long, slanting rays. You watch the rays avidly, lovingly. While that ray is in your cell, it is as though you have a most welcome guest. Then higher, higher—it slips along the ceiling, gets caught for a moment in the bars on the window. And disappears… the cell is empty. The welcome guest has departed. At eleven, the prison superintendent arrives.

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Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

23.08.17

Two wardresses at the door. Both are entirely weighed down with packages.

“What a delivery you’ve got today! It’s like an entire wholesale shop. You’ve got everything! White bread, sausages, canned goods, butter, eggs, honey…” See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

20.08.17

In the middle of the night, I woke up to a burst of indecent noise. Hysterical female screams: “Help! They’re destroying me! They’re killing me!” Footsteps, male voices. Noise. And again those splitting female screams. On this sort of night, it’s no good to be in prison. In the morning, the wardress, the one who had five cats, explained that the criminal wing is full. See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

19.08.17

I have a cellmate. An American woman. A dancer. Suspected of espionage. She's a noisy, demanding person. She "fights" with the prison guards via a translator. She brings "prison inspection" upon herself. See more

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Age: 45

Interests: Marxist feminism, Leninism, Marxism, communism

Friends

Vladimir Lenin

Inessa Armand

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Georgi Plekhanov