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Alexandra Kollontai

1872 - 1952

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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich, Домонтович; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highly prominent woman within the Bolshevik party. She was the first woman to be a cabinet minister, and the first woman ambassador.The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced radical politics in the 1890s and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandra Kollontai has received more than 935,317 page views. Her biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Alexandra Kollontai is the 8th most popular diplomat (up from 9th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Russia (up from 93rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Diplomat.

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, feminist, and diplomat. She was one of the most important figures in the Bolshevik government after the October Revolution.

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  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Alexandra Kollontai has had the most page views in the with 168,694 views, followed by English (123,967), and Spanish (37,058). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Kurmanji) (643.04%), Icelandic (114.24%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (63.66%)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 8 out of 90. Before her are Kofi Annan, John Jay, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After her are Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, Lucien Bonaparte, Madeleine Albright, and Folke Bernadotte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 5. Before her are Roald Amundsen, Piet Mondrian, Bertrand Russell, and Haakon VII of Norway. After her are Alexandra Feodorovna, Calvin Coolidge, Johan Huizinga, Charles Greeley Abbot, Paul Langevin, Marcel Mauss, and Anton Denikin. Among people deceased in 1952, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 7. Before her are Maria Montessori, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, George VI, John Dewey, and Chaim Weizmann. After her are Wilm Hosenfeld, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Sveinn Björnsson, Benedetto Croce, and Elena of Montenegro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 91 out of 3,761. Before her are Alexander Scriabin (1871), Alexander Kerensky (1881), Otto Wallach (1847), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), and Alexander Borodin (1833). After her are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Kalinin (1875), Alexis of Russia (1629), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), and Ivan Konev (1897).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Russia

Among diplomats born in Russia, Alexandra Kollontai ranks 1. After her are Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), Vatslav Vorovsky (1871), Max Jakobson (1923), and Vasily Nebenzya (1962).

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