The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published.For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her the worth of her personality as human being as citizen as thinker as fighter. Subconsciously this motive was the leading force of my whole life and activity. To go my way to work to struggle to create side by side with men and to strive for the attainment of a universal human goal (for nearly thirty years indeed I have belonged to the Communists) but at the same time to shape my personal intimate life as a woman according to my own will and according to the given laws of my nature. It was this that conditioned my line of vision.