Zoya Leonidovna Shadurskaia (1873-1939) was a well-educated Russian noble who was active in Russian revolutionary movement from the 1890s. She was a feminist and remained life long friends with Alexandra Kollontai. Zoya met Kollantai as a child in 1877 in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War.

Political activism

She supported the

Zimmerwald movement The Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915. It was the first of three international socialist conferences convened by anti-militarist socialist parties from countries that were originally neutral d ...

in Paris during the First World War. She returned to Russia in 1917 and joined the Bolsheviks. Like Kollontai she was active in the

Workers' Opposition The Workers' Opposition (russian: Рабочая оппозиция) was a faction of the Russian Communist Party that emerged in 1920 as a response to the perceived over-bureaucratisation that was occurring in Soviet Russia. They advocated th ...

and in 1922 with her was one of the two people who signed the ''

Letter of the Twenty Two The ''Letter of the Twenty Two'' was a letter written by twenty two working class members of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) expressing their concerns about the rift which they perceived between workers and party leaders. It was addressed ...

'' following its initial publication.

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