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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78- A.K. 47 - International Women's Day - Part 2

78- A.K. 47 - International Women's Day - Part 2

Kristen Ghodsee reads part two of Alexandra Kollontai's 1920 essay on the history of International Women's Day. Ghodsee also announces some upcoming lectures and events: 7 March 2021 (15:00 GMT-5) ...

8 Mars 202117min

77 - A.K. 47 - International Women's Day - Part 1

77 - A.K. 47 - International Women's Day - Part 1

Kristen Ghodsee reads part one of Alexandra Kollontai's 1920 essay on the history of International Women's Day. Ghodsee also announces some upcoming lectures and events. 5 March 2021 (09:30 GMT-5) ...

1 Mars 202118min

76 - A.K. 47 - Love and the New Morality (Excerpt) and Valentine's Day Rant

76 - A.K. 47 - Love and the New Morality (Excerpt) and Valentine's Day Rant

Kristen Ghodsee discusses the political economy of Valentine's Day and reads an excerpt from Alexandra Kollontai's 1911 book review of The Sexual Crisis by Grete Meisel-Hess. In this section of "Love...

14 Feb 202118min

75 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - What Would Kollontai Think of Bridgerton?

75 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - What Would Kollontai Think of Bridgerton?

In this bonus episode, Kristen Ghodsee discusses the surprise hit series Bridgerton with her daughter and the University of Pennsylvania graduate student, Angelina Eimannsberger. According to a Netfli...

1 Feb 202129min

74 - A.K. 47 - Our Tasks (and shout out to the K-Pop stans)

74 - A.K. 47 - Our Tasks (and shout out to the K-Pop stans)

Kristen Ghodsee reads Alexandra Kollontai's 1917 article "Our Tasks," written in the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution. Ghodsee also celebrates the social media activism of the K-Pop stans...

22 Jan 202118min

73 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - The Capitol Insurrection and "North American Time"

73 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - The Capitol Insurrection and "North American Time"

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads Adrienne Rich’s 1983 poem, “North American Time,” in which Rich name-checks Alexandra Kollontai. Ghodsee reflects on the events of the January 2021 “Capitol Insurrection,” the...

9 Jan 202118min

72 - A.K. 47 - Letter to Dora Montefiore, January 26, 1921

72 - A.K. 47 - Letter to Dora Montefiore, January 26, 1921

Kristen Ghodsee reads a letter Kollontai wrote to the English suffragist and socialist, Dora Montefiore. It is an update of the work of the revolution, and Kollontai is remarkably candid about the str...

5 Jan 202117min

71 - A.K. 47 - Lenin Thought of Both Great and Small (Kollontai on Christmas 1917)

71 - A.K. 47 - Lenin Thought of Both Great and Small (Kollontai on Christmas 1917)

Kristen Ghodsee reads Alexandra Kollontai's 1946 essay, "Lenin thought of both great and small," which reflects on her memories of Christmas 1917. Nadezhda Konstantinovna refers to Lenin's wife and Ma...

25 Dec 202015min

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