develops the themes that today seem the most modern in her work. So it is in A Great Love, recently translated by Cathy Porter.
Natasha, Bolshevik gradually faces the fact that her married lover Senya will never really see her as a person in her own right.
about Lenin and Inessa Russell, a friend of Kollontai's sixty years ago, rejected in the Supplement, the view that Senya could be Lenin, he merely represents the almost universal male prejudices of the time.
highly unlikely story is based on any one particular relationship. the stereotype of a male revolutionary immersed in his work. Anyuta, Senya's wife, is sick, suicidal and 'petty bourgeois'.
Distillation have written this about Krupskaya, whom she liked and respected. It is much more likely that the story represents a distillation of all Kollontai's observations of male long period.
ticularly it is probawry with Petr Maslov in 1909. Maslov was married to a sick wife and had five children.
in her fiction that Kollontai Party worker A Great Love is widely believed to be Armand. Dora Times Educational that Kollontaï's Senya is a cardboard cut-out It is inconceivable that Kollontai would and behaviour over a If any one relationship is exploited parKollontai's affair ridden: Kollontai, fascinated by his intellect, felt his interest in her was mainly sexual, and believed him incapable of treating her as an equal.
Unfortunately, Kollontai's fiction was frequently unimaginative and cliché"Then passion came them off their feet with a suddenness that took their breath away. Natasha lost her