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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[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><br />
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==Early life==<br />
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><br />
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==Political activism==<br />
Kim gave up teaching and moved back to Vladivostok, where she took part in political activities for the cause of Korean migrants.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Capture==<br />
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"/><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*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.<br />
*Pak Hwan. ''Kim Alexandra Petrovna (Stankevich), Leader of Korean Socialist Party'' Hanguksahan Nonchong, [[Seoul]], 1992.<br />
*Александра Петровна Ким-Станкевич. Очерки, документы и материалы. М. Институт востоковедения РАН, 2008.<br />
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