Featured image: Kollontai (on the left) in 1918 with some of the orphans in his care. An aristocrat by birth, at the age of 26 she left the privileged environment in which her parents lived, joined the Russian Social Democrats and became a self-sacrificing revolutionary.

Kollontai (on the left) in 1918 with some of the orphans in his care. An aristocrat by birth, at the age of 26 she left the privileged environment in which her parents lived, joined the Russian Social Democrats and became a self-sacrificing revolutionary.