Zoya Leonidovna Shadurskaia (1873-1939) was a well-educated Russian noble who was active in Russian revolutionary movement from the 1890s. She was a feminist and remained life long friends with Alexandra Kollontai.

Zoya met Kollantai as a child in 1877 in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War.[1]

Political activism

She supported the Zimmerwald movement in Paris during the First World War. She returned to Russia in 1917 and joined the Bolsheviks.[2] Like Kollontai she was active in the Workers' Opposition and in 1922 with her was one of the two people who signed the Letter of the Twenty Two following its initial publication.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Farnsworth, Beatrice (1980). Alexandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804710732.
  2. ↑ Taber, Mike (4 June 2018). "Glossary: The Communist Movement at a Crossroads". Brill. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Allen, Barbara (2007). "Early Dissent within the Party: Alexander Shliapnikov and the Letter of the Twenty-Two."" (PDF). The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928. I: 21–54.
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