# Alexandra Kollontai — My Disillusionment in Russia character guide

> Alexandra Kollontai in My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Kollontai, Madame Kollontai

**First appearance:** 0007-v-meeting-people

## Who they are

Bolshevik feminist and diplomat, briefly encountered.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Alexandra Kollontai is a Bolshevik feminist and commissar whose official role and political views create a formal, sometimes tense relationship with the narrator.

## In the story

### [XIX: In Kharkov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xix-in-kharkov)

Mentioned by Dibenko as his wife; the narrator is known to her.

### [Back in Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxiv-back-in-petrograd)

Speaks movingly at Jack Reed's funeral, criticizing the Party's coldness and drawing closer to the narrator.

### [XXV: Archangel and Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxv-archangel-and-return)

Heads the Labour Opposition, demanding liberation of workers from bureaucratic state control; her pamphlet is suppressed.

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