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Kollontay

family name (Коллонтай)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ112256026 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kollontay (also Kollontai, Russian: Коллонтай) is a Russian language transcription of the Polish surname Kołłątaj.

It can refer to the following people:

Alexandra Kollontay (Kollontai) (1872–1952) — Russian Communist revolutionary, Soviet statesman and ambassador

Mikhail Kollontay (b.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kollontay” is family name (Коллонтай). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kollontay, family and name, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1872, 1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kollontay, family and name is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “family name (Коллонтай)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q112256026. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1872 and 1952.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Kollontay primary sources, Kollontay archive and Kollontay research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kollontay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.