(born July 5, 1857, Wiederau, Saxony—died June 20, 1933, Arkhangelskoye, Russia, U.S.S.R.) German communist leader. She joined the Social Democratic Party in 1881, and she later married a Russian revolutionary exile, Ossip Zetkin (1848–89).
From 1892 she edited the Socialist women's newspaper Die Gleichheit (“Equality”) in Stuttgart. A friend of Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, Zetkin was a cofounder of the Spartacists (1916) and later joined the new Communist Party of Germany (1919). In 1921 she was elected to the presidium of the Third International (&see; Comintern). Her influence waned after Lenin's death in 1924.
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