Her only contemporary as a woman in a national position of this kind was Alexandra Kollontai
, Commissar for Social Welfare in the USSR. CCM
became involved with the American Commission on Irish Independence
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Late 1917: In the same year that women received the...
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Late 1917
In the same year that women received the right to vote in Russia, Alexandra Kollontai
became the first woman government minister in the world when she was appointed the People's Commissioner for Public Welfare...
