That I ought not to shape my life according to the given model, that I would have to grow beyond myself in order to be able to discern my life's true line of vision was an awareness that was mine already in my youngest years. May succeed in setting into bold relief that which concerns the women's liberation struggle and, further, the social significance which it has. For by looking back while prying, simultaneously, into the future, I will also be presenting to myself the most crucial turning points of my being and accomplishments.
At the same time I must confess that, in a certain sense, this autobiography poses a problem for me.
I intend to make this effort but whether it will turn out successfully is something else again. Positive in life, accomplished a task that peopleĪccordingly it is a matter of forgetting that one is writing about oneself, of making an effort to abjure one's ego so as to give an account, as objectively as possible, of one's life in the making and of one's accomplishments. It can mean only that one must have already wrought something One is called upon to tell about one's life so as to make theĮvents that made it what it became useful to the general public, The conventional introductory protestations of modesty. Should be emphasized? Just what is of general interest? It isĪdvisable, above all, to write honestly and dispense with any of Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography. Reader thus will have an idea of the extent and the intensity ofĬorrections made by the author under the pressure of the In footnotes which likewise were rejected and crossed out. Sentences and paragraphs in italics were crossed out in the This is the first time that the complete autobiography whichĪlexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published.
Source: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman, Translated by Salvator Attansio, Herder and Herder, 1971 The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist WomanĪlexandra Kollontai The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
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