Polina Semyonovna Vinogradskaya

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Polina Semjonowna Winogradskaja ( Russian Полина Семёновна Виноградская ; * 1897 , † 1970 ) was a Soviet sociologist, women's rights activist and later librarian.

Winogradskaya joined the Bolsheviks in 1917 . From 1920 to 1921 she sat on the Central Committee in the Department of Women Workers. She was involved in organizing the first international women's conference and edited the magazine "Kommunistka" (The Communist).

Winogradskaya was a member of the Zhenotdel (an institution that had committed itself to revolutionizing the gender system) and was a member of the Left Opposition to Stalinism until 1929 . In 1937 her partner Yevgeny Preobrazhensky was sentenced to death and shot.

Polina's sister Sofija Winogradskaja , who died in 1964, was a communist writer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leon Trotsky : Questions of Everyday Life . Arbeiterpresse-Verlag, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88634-059-7 , p. 267.
  2. Claude Kastler: Alexandre Voronski 1884-1943: Un Bolchevik Fou De Litterature . ISBN 9782843100246 , p. 158.