Thanks for comments, I generally agree with sentiment expressed and don't wish my post to be construed as criticism. Her ideas and proposals have received neither attention nor debate they deserve. But perhaps you can clarify following:
When K was removed from her position as head of the women's commission (a post she was given only after Inessa Armand, who had been active on women's issues for less time but was personally and politically close to Lenin, died) during retaliation against *Workers' Opposition*, wasn't she also put on probation which would have meant expulsion had she ever again actively opposed party line?
Weren't her diplomatic assignments, in part, intended to keep her away from Soviet Union so that she wouldn't have opportunities to actively support opposition views?
Following unsuccessful attempt to prevent restoration of conservative family policy (1926), weren't some of K's public expressions such as assertion that Soviet state had emancipated women & reference to woman's 'natural duty as mother' inconsistent with earlier views?
re. Lenin, he made comment during speech at 10th Party Congress suggesting that K was engaged in illicit sexual relationship with a previous lover when, in fact, she was living in committed monogamous relationship at the time (gawd forbid I engage in gossip, but wasn't Armand L's mistress?) This was, of course, only one of numerous sexist attacks to which she was subjected by male Bolsheviks (her later denunication of Trotskyist opposition may have resulted, in part, from T's characterization of her as a "Valkyrie"). Michael Hoover