A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai
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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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86 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Louise Bryant on Alexandra Kollontai, 1923

86 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Louise Bryant on Alexandra Kollontai, 1923

In response to a listener request from the Chicago Teachers' Union, Kristen Ghodsee reads Louise Bryant's chapter on Alexandra Kollontai from Bryant's 1923 book: Mirrors of Moscow. Bryant was a femini...

21 Juli 202123min

85 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Was Kollontai Bi?

85 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Was Kollontai Bi?

Kristen Ghodsee and her daughter discuss the relationship of Alexandra Kollontai with her lifelong Bulgarian friend, Zoya Shadurskaya. The two women met when they were six years old and remained frie...

13 Juli 202122min

84 - A.K. 47 - The War and Our Immediate Tasks

84 - A.K. 47 - The War and Our Immediate Tasks

Kristen Ghodsee reads and discusses Alexandra Kollontai’s 1914 essay, “War and Our Immediate Tasks,” which reflects her early commitment to pacifism during World War I. Mentioned in this episode is L...

6 Juli 202126min

83 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Emma Goldman and Alexandra Kollontai

83 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Emma Goldman and Alexandra Kollontai

In answer to a listener's question, Kristen Ghodsee discusses the meetings and interactions of the Russian-American anarchist with Alexandra Kollontai in 1920, quoting directly from Goldman's own work...

30 Maj 202123min

82 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Review of Kollontai: A Play by Agneta Pleijel

82 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Review of Kollontai: A Play by Agneta Pleijel

Kristen Ghodsee discusses a recent edited collection of essays about the life and work of Alexandra Kollontai, published by Sternberg Press, which includes an English translation of a Swedish play by ...

24 Maj 202117min

81 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 3

81 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 3

Kristen Ghodsee reads and discusses the second part of Isabel de Palencia's 1947 translation of Alexandra Kollontai's essay, "A Letter to a Young Comrade." This essay was reprinted in a report writte...

3 Maj 202121min

80 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 2

80 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 2

Kristen Ghodsee reads and discusses the first part of Isabel de Palencia's 1947 translation of Alexandra Kollontai's essay, "A Letter to a Young Comrade." This essay was reprinted in a report written...

6 Apr 202120min

79 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 1

79 - A.K. 47 - A Letter to a Young Comrade - Part 1

Kristen Ghodsee reads and discusses the introduction to Alexandra Kollontai included in a report written by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1959. This report, "The Communist Conspiracy: ...

25 Mars 202119min

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