Caption
Portrait of Clara Zetkin photographed by Johann shepherd 1894, Germany Clara Zetkin (5 July 1857 in Wiederau - 20 June 1933 in Krasnogorsk-Arkhangelskoye near Moscow) was a German politician and important woman's rights activist. She was a member of the left-wing faction of the SPD until 1917 and then joined the USPD and, from 1918/19, the newly founded Communist Party of Germany (KPD) . As part of the International Labour Movement, she was a key campaigner for International Women's Day. Her speech on 19 July 1889 in favour of woman's suffrage, the right to free choice of profession and special labour protection laws for woman is also famous. As a member of the Communist International, she often spent time in Moscow in the 1920s. Her contributions and activities in the context of trials of dissidents in Moscow made her complicit in human rights violations and judicial crimes. This is one of the reasons why Clara Zetkin is a controversial historical figure today. She is one of the w
Date
Feb 22, 1894
Credit line
Photo12/ImageBROKER/Heinz Krimmer
Reference
BRK26H50_351
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32.2Mb (10.7Mb) / 9.4in x 13.3in / 2811 x 4000 (300dpi)