Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography - Paperback

by Cathy Porter (Author)

Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.

Author Biography

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.