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[[Image:Kim-Stankevich1917.jpg|thumb|200px|Alexandra Kim]]'''Alexandra Petrovna Kim''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: {{lang|rus|Александра Петровна Ким}}; born '''Kim Aerim''';<ref name=Lankov>{{cite web|url=http://rbth.com/blogs/and_quiet_flows_the_han/2017/03/14/iron-lady-how-koreas-1st-communist-was-killed-in-russia_719281|title=Iron lady: How Korea's 1st communist was killed in Russia|first=Andrei|last=Lankov|publisher=Russian Behind the Headlines|date=March 14, 2017}}</ref> February 22, 1885 – September 16, 1918) was a [[Korea]]n revolutionary political activist. Having joined the Bolsheviks in 1916, she is recognized as the first Korean [[communism|communist]].<ref>http://www.koryosaram.freenet.kz/biblio/foreign-sources.doc</ref>

==Early life==
Kim Aerim 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, adopting the name Piotr Kim and converting to Orthodox Christianity.<ref name=Lankov/> He worked as a translator. Later he went to [[Manchuria]] to work as a interpreter on the railway. In 1895, Alexandra joined him in China. Soon after her arrival in China, Kim Du Suh died. Alexandra was adopted by Jozef Stankevich, a Russian friend of her father.<ref name=Lankov/> She attended a girls school in [[Vladivostok]], [[Siberia]]. After finishing her education, she began working as a teacher in a primary school. She got married to Stankevich's son.<ref name="kimsoft">[http://www.kimsoft.com/war/r-13-4.htm 13.4. The Women's Brigade<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name="pdf">[http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_su_diva-696-2__fulltext.pdf 001-12 försidor<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2003-March/003613.html [KS&#93; Westerners and Korean Spouses<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Political activism==
Kim 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 [[RSDLP (Bolshevik)|Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)]]. In 1917, [[Lenin]] sent her back 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 with [[Yi Dong-Wi]], [[Kim Rip]] and other Korean independence fighters. Together they founded the [[Korean People's Socialist Party]] in Khabarovsk on April 28, 1918.<ref name="kimsoft"/><ref name="pdf"/><ref>[http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1632.html Association for Asia Research- Who were the Soviet Koreans?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Capture==
Kim was captured, along with many other Korean communists, by [[Whites (Russia)|White]] forces and Japanese troops on September 4, 1918. She was executed on September 16, 1918. Reportedly, her last words were "Freedom and Independence for Korea!"<ref name="kimsoft"/>

==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.
*Александра Петровна Ким-Станкевич. Очерки, документы и материалы. М. Институт востоковедения РАН, 2008.

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