Alexandra Kollontai died in Moscow on 9 March 1952 , less than a month away from her 80th birthday . She was the only member of the Bolsheviks ' Central Committee that had led the October Revolution that managed to live into the 1950s , other than Stalin himself and his devoted supporter Matvei Muranov . She has sometimes been criticized and even held up to contempt for not raising her voice during the Stalinist purges , when , amongst countless others , her former husband , her former lover and fighting comrade , and so many friends of hers were ignominiously put to death . And , it has been noted , at the time she " was safe in her sumptuous Stockholm residence " . Notwithstanding , it should also be pointed out that , even so , Kollontai did not enjoy a full liberty of action and had to worry about the possible fates of her family . It might not have been pure chance if both her only son and her musician half-nephew ( whom she had much supported at the beginning of his career ) also came unscathed through the persecution of the Stalinist regime , to the establishment of which she had however significantly contributed
Stalinist purges
Great Purge
Alexandra Kollontai