1. Clara Zetkin then joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League, which later became the Communist Party of Germany.
35 Facts About Clara Zetkin
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Clara Zetkin represented that party in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.
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Clara Zetkin's father, Gottfried Eissner, was a schoolmaster, church organist and a devout Protestant.
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Clara Zetkin adopted the name of her lover, the Russian-Jewish Ossip Zetkin, a devoted Marxist, with whom she had two sons, Maxim and Konstantin.
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Ossip Clara Zetkin became severely ill in early 1889 and died in June of that year.
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Clara Zetkin was married to artist Georg Friedrich Zundel, who was eighteen years her junior, from 1899 to 1928.
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Around the time of 1880, due to the political climate in Germany, Clara Zetkin went into exile in Switzerland and later in France.
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Around 1898, Clara Zetkin formed a friendship with the younger Rosa Luxemburg that lasted 20 years.
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Clara Zetkin was very interested in women's politics, including the fight for equal opportunities and women's suffrage, through socialism.
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Clara Zetkin helped to develop the social-democratic women's movement in Germany.
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However, Clara Zetkin was deeply opposed to the concept of "bourgeois feminism," which she claimed was a tool to divide the unity of the working classes.
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Clara Zetkin viewed the feminist movement as being primarily composed of upper-class and middle-class women who had their own class interests in mind, which were incompatible with the interests of working-class women.
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Clara Zetkin interviewed Vladimir Lenin on "The Women's Question" in 1920.
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From Clara Zetkin's perspective, the women's movement was a key component to the whole of women's rights.
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In 1916 Clara Zetkin was one of the co-founders of the Spartacist League and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany which had split off in 1917 from its mother party, the SPD, in protest at its pro-war stance.
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Clara Zetkin joined it and represented the party from 1920 to 1933 in the Reichstag.
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Clara Zetkin became further enveloped in the Communist movement through her interactions and fellowship with Vladimir Lenin.
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Clara Zetkin was allocated a position to provide support to the women's rights committee drafting a resolution, theses, and directives to move along the progression of the movement.
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Until 1924, Clara Zetkin was a member of the KPD's central office.
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Clara Zetkin was a member of the executive committee of the Communist International from 1921 to 1933.
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Clara Zetkin presided over an international secretariat for women, which was created by the Communist International in October 1920.
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In summer 1922, Clara Zetkin was part of the prosecution team during the Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow, but at other times, she was critical of Moscow's influence over the German Communist Party within which she was part of the right wing.
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Clara Zetkin was removed from the Central Committee of the KPD when the left, led by Ruth Fischer, took control.
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Clara Zetkin opposed a policy decision made in Moscow in 1928 to get communist trade unions in Germany to split from the main socialist-dominated federation and form the rival Rote Gewerkschaftsbund.
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When Joseph Stalin put this to the executive of Comintern, in December 1928, Clara Zetkin was one of only three members of the executive to vote against.
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Clara Zetkin used her opening address to call for workers to unite in the struggle against fascism:.
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Clara Zetkin was a recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner.
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Clara Zetkin's publications aimed at mobilizing the female working class, which included workers and mothers, to adopt socialism and feminism.
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In 1921, Clara Zetkin began to write for the communist periodical, Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale.
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Clara Zetkin's published works began to be stalled during the rise of the Stalinist government in the early 1920s.
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Clara Zetkin went into exile for the last time, this time to the Soviet Union.
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Clara Zetkin died there, at Arkhangelskoye, near Moscow, in 1933, aged nearly 76.
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Clara Zetkin's ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, by the Moscow Kremlin Wall, near the Red Square.
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Clara Zetkin's hard stop to acknowledging her legacy is because he believed her works played a part in destroying the first German democracy.
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Clara Zetkin's legacy was further tarnished because her works were unpalatable to the feminist movements of the 60s and 70s.