March 31, 1872: Birthday of Bolshevik leader Alexandra Kollontai.

An organizer of workers, mobilizer of women, powerful orator, theoretician on questions of women’s emancipation, sexuality and gender, a leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the first woman in modern history to hold a cabinet-level government post – in Soviet Russia.

Read Kollontai’s “Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman”