In pre-revolutionary Russia, aristocratic women had little choice but to be expected to become faithful wives and devoted mothers, their lives revolving around domesticity and family duties. However, the Marxist revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai showed that it was possible to follow a different path. At the age of 27, she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Eventually, she became the most prominent woman in the Soviet administration following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, when she was appointed a diplomatic counsellor to the Soviet legation in Norway, being soon promoted to head of the legation – one of the first women to hold such a post.
From Crisis to Crisis: the fight for sustainable refuge funding in England
Over the past few years we have seen specialist refuge services in England lurch from funding crisis to funding crisis with no promise of sustainable … read article
