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“... and confusions between work and love are expressed by all the women in the six stories by Alexandra Kollontai which Virago have published recently in two volumes. Here, the nibbling and insensitive lover is Senya. The ear and neck are Natasha’s. When ‘A Great Love’, the long short story in which they appear, was published in 1923 ...”

“... Appleton designed kitchenless cities where everyone would be provided with free cooked meals. Alexandra Kollontai proposed the mass roll-out of co-operative childcare centres. In more recent decades, Frances Gabe thought about how to build ‘self-cleaning’ houses and Shulamith Firestone dreamed of the ‘diffusion’ of care responsibilities ...”

“... Fired up by the way the older campaigners dropped such names as Toussaint L’Ouverture, Alexandra Kollontai and Kurt Weill into the conversation, Webb left her job and became RAR’s first full-time worker, based in an office near the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell. The first Rock Against Racism gig took place at the Princess Alice pub in ...”

“... a village not too far from Moscow. The photographs of these five, together with Lenin, Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai, make up the section of Figes’s extremely well-chosen illustrations headed ‘Dramatis Personae’. Unlike Schama’s Citizens, however, A People’s Tragedy asks to be judged not only as dramatic narrative, but as historical ...”

“... before 1917, lacked faith in himself at his first open meetings – to the point of asking Alexandra Kollontai to speak on his behalf. The image of a more ‘human’ Lenin has begun to be fostered. It’s an image that has some basis in historical reality: but its present emergence is not unconnected with the regime’s instrumental need to ...”

“... the often hostile representation of men in the works of such writers as Richardson, Rebecca West, Alexandra Kollontai, Christina Stead, Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, Miller’s deliberately unsystematic readings have an impressive cumulative power. By the end of the book, as she discusses the work of black and working-class ...”

“... one who wasn’t interested in sexual emancipation – the opposite to the challenging Alexandra Kollontai and Lenin’s elegant later love, Inessa Armand. Krupskaya was a feminist, of course (she kept her own name after marriage, unlike Kollontai and Armand), but the women’s issues that concerned her ...”

“... construct ‘free love’ – the transaction uncomplicated as ‘a glass of water’ (Alexandra Kollontai) – the unsexy or sexless was the norm. The comradely. The boilersuit over the union suit. The furtive, the suppressed or the undeclared, perhaps. In this way and in the backwardness, poverty and plain hunger that he writes ...”