A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After the October Revolution, Kollontai became the Commissar of Social Welfare and helped to found the Zhenotdel (the women's section of the Party). She oversaw a wide variety of legal reforms and public policies to help liberate working women and to create the basis of a new socialist sexual morality. But Russians were not ready for her vision of emancipation, and she was sent away to Norway to serve as the first Russian female ambassador (and only the third female ambassador in the world). In this podcast, Kristen R. Ghodsee – a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books 2018) – selects excerpts from the essays, speeches, and fiction of Alexandra Kollontai and puts them in context. Each episode provides an introduction to the abridged reading with some relevant background on Kollontai and the historical moment in which she was writing.

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62 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 5.1

Kristen R. Ghodsee discusses the ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon and reads Part One of Chapter Five of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Mentioned in...

28 Jul 202025min

61 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 4

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads Chapter Four of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Mentioned in the episode are the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World....

20 Jul 202020min

60 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 3

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads Chapter Three of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Send us Fan Mail Thanks so much for listening. This podcast has no Patreon-type...

13 Jul 202028min

59 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - A discussion of Red Love, Hype Beasts, and Feminism with an 18-year-old

A brief meta-reflection on the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Kristen R. Ghodsee pauses in her reading to discuss relationships, Hype Beasts, capitalism, and...

29 Jun 202020min

58 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 2.2

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads part 2 of Chapter Two of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Send us Fan Mail Thanks so much for listening. This podcast has no Patre...

22 Jun 202020min

57 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 2.1

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads part one of Chapter Two of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Mentioned in this episode are the following books: Amis, B.D. African...

15 Jun 202021min

56 - A.K. 47 - Red Love: Chapter 1

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads Chapter One of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love. Send us Fan Mail Thanks so much for listening. This podcast has no Patreon-type ac...

30 Mai 202020min

55 - A.K. 47 - Red Love: Introduction

Kristen R. Ghodsee introduces Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love (full text available at marxists.org) and reads the Foreword to the 1927 English language edition. Also mentioned in the epis...

24 Mai 202018min