Few people have heard of this woman, even fewer of those who read about her. Although she was at one time both the secretary of the Comintern and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Lenin called her "one of the outstanding activists of the communist movement." Angelica Balabanova (1877-1965) was an unbending revolutionary. She always openly stated that bureaucracy and corruption would destroy Soviet power. Stalin's "great terror" Balabanova called "a bloody caricature of socialism." For this, her name was deleted from all archives and library collections. However, today she is among the 500 greatest women in the world.