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

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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46 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part V

46 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part V

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the final part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her te...

8 Feb 202018min

45 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part IV

45 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part IV

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the fourth part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her t...

30 Jan 202018min

44 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part III

44 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part III

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the third part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her te...

24 Jan 202018min

43 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part II

43 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part II

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the second part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her t...

7 Jan 202018min

42 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part I

42 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part I

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the first part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her te...

25 Dec 201917min

41 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Kollontai with Angelina Eimannsberger

41 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Kollontai with Angelina Eimannsberger

In this bonus episode, Kristen Ghodsee speaks once again with Angelina Eimannsberger, a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, about Alexandra Kollontai and the ...

13 Dec 201917min

40 - A.K. 47 - Soon (In 48 Years Time)

40 - A.K. 47 - Soon (In 48 Years Time)

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads Alexandra Kollontai's short story, "Soon (In 48 years time)," written in 1922 about her imagination of the future of the Soviet Union. This is the first piece of...

29 Nov 201917min

39 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations III

39 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations III

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses part three of Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 essay, "Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations." This essay is a precursor to "Make Way for Win...

18 Nov 201916min

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