69 - A.K. 47 - The Soviet Woman, A Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country

Kristen Ghodsee discusses the later decades of Alexandra Kollontai's life and reads an abridged version of her 1946 essay, "The Soviet Woman, A Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country." This essay was written in the aftermath of World War II and was published in Soviet Woman. Its goal is to encourage Soviet women to have babies while also working to rebuild the Soviet economy. Although Kollontai is undoubtedly pro-natalist and asserts that women have a social duty to become mothers, she...