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international socialist women's antiwar conference in Berlin in 1915.
Because of her anti-war opinions,
she was arrested several times
during the war.
In 1916 Zetkin was one of the cofounders of the Spartacist League
and the Independent Social
Democratic Party of Germany
(USPD) which had split off in 1917
from its mother party, the SPD, in
protest at its pro-war stance.
In January 1919, after the German
Revolution in November of the
previous year, the KPD (Communist
Party of Germany) was founded;
Zetkin also joined this and
represented the party from 1920 to
1933 in the Reichstag.
She interviewed Lenin on "The
Women's Question" in 1920.[4]

Until 1924 Zetkin was a member of
the KPD 's central office; from 1927
to 1929 she was a member of the
party's central committee. She was
also a member of the executive
committee of the Communist
International (Comintern) from 1921
to 1933. In 1925 she was elected
president of the German left-wing
solidarity organisation Rote Hilfe
(Red Aid). In August 1932, as the
chairwoman of the Reichstag by
seniority, she called for people to
fight National Socialism.

Posthumous honors
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Zetkin was memorialized on
the ten mark banknote of
the now-defunct German
Democratic Republic (GDR)
(East Germany).
In 1954, the GDR
established the Clara Zetkin
Medal (Clara-ZetkinMedaille) to honor women
particularly active for
women's rights.

When Adolf Hitler and his National
Socialist German Workers Party took
over power, the Communist Party of
Germany was banned from the
Reichstag, following the Reichstag
fire in 1933. Zetkin went into exile
for the last time, this time to the
Soviet Union. She died there, at
Archangelskloye, near Moscow, in
1933, aged nearly 76. She was
buried by the wall of the Kremlin in
Moscow.

Bust of Clara Zetkin in Dresden

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