A century ago, our newspapers couldn’t stop writing about the Russian, Alexandra Kollontai—a woman so dangerous the United States government deemed her a national security risk.
In 1918, Current Opinion called her the “Heroine of the Bolsheviki upheaval in Petrograd” and announced to its incredulous readers that “she holds a cabinet portfolio, dresses like a Parisian, and does not believe in marriage.”
In 1924, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the “Communist Valkyrie is [a] match for any man in diplomacy.”
A year later, The New York Times accused her of arranging fake marriages to promote “red…
