- Alexandra Kim
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Personal life
She was born in Sinelnikovo, a Korean village in Siberia. At the time, the area was a hotbed of Korean
nationalism . In 1869, her father, Kim Du Suh, had emigrated to Russia. He worked as a translator. Later he went toManchuria to take part in fighting theJapan ese forces. In 1895, Alexandra joined him in China. Soon after her arrival in China, Kim Du Suh passed away. Alexandra was adopted by Piotr Stankevich, a Russian friend of her father. She attended girl school inVladivostok ,Siberia . After finishing her education, she began working as a teacher in a primary school. She got married to Stankevich's son. [http://www.kimsoft.com/war/r-13-4.htm 13.4. The Women's Brigade ] ] [http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_su_diva-696-2__fulltext.pdf 001-12 frsidor ] ] [ [http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2003-March/003613.html [KS Westerners and Korean Spouses ] ]Political activism
She gave up teaching and moved back to Vladivostok, where she took part in political activities for the cause of Korean migrants.
Her marriage did not last long. She divorced her husband and shifted to the
Urals region. In the Urals she began political activism. In 1916, she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks). In 1917,Lenin sent her to Siberia to mobilize Koreans there against the counter-revolutionary forces and the Allied Expeditionary Forces.In
Khabarovsk she was in charge of external affairs at the Far-Eastern Department of the Party. There she met withYi Dong-Wi ,Kim Rip and other Korean independence fighters. Together they founded theKorean People's Socialist Party in Khabarovsk on June 28, 1918. [ [http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1632.html Association for Asia Research- Who were the Soviet Koreans? ] ]Capture
Alexandra was captured, along with many other Korean communists, by White forces and Japanese troops on
September 4 ,1918 . She was executed onSeptember 16 ,1918 . Reportedly, her last words were "Freedom and Independence for Korea!".Bibliography
*Pan Pyong Yul. The Life and Activities of Kim Alexandra Petrovna (Stankevich): A Short Biography of the First Korean Communist, - Yun Pyong Sok Kyosu Hwangapkinyom Hanguk Kundaesa Nonchong,
Seoul , 1990.
*Pak Hwan. Kim Alexandra Petrovna (Stankevich), Leader of Korean Socialist Party - Hanguksahan Nonchong,Seoul , 1992.References
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