Aleksandra Kollontai took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907; at that time she met Vladimir Lenin.
In 1915, Kollontai joined the Bolsheviks, whose attitude towards the war was closest to hers. After the victory of the February Revolution of 1917, she returned to Russia and was soon appointed one of the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet.
After the October Revolution of 1917, she was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and received the post of People's Commissar of Public Welfare in the first composition of the Council of People's Commissars.
During the Civil War, Alexandra Kollontai took over the leadership of the Commissariat of Agitation and Propaganda of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as the political department of the Crimean Army.
She began working as a diplomat in 1923 and retired from her post only in 1945 due to illness.
The postage stamp features a portrait of Aleksandra Kollontai.
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