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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38 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations II

38 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations II

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses part two 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 Winge...

9 Nov 201916min

37 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations I

37 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations I

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses part one 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 Winge...

31 Okt 201916min

36 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion II

36 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion II

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee gives some more context to Alexandra Kollontai's life by reading from the texts of two women who knew her personally: the American Louise Bryant and the Spaniard Isabe...

28 Okt 201917min

35 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion I

35 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman - Discussion I

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee discusses the title and content of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 book, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman, with her 17-year-old daughter. Particu...

20 Okt 201917min

34 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VII

34 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VII

In this seventh episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads the final section of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. In this portion of th...

11 Okt 201916min

33 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VI

33 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman VI

In this sixth episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part VI of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. In this portion of the memoir, Ko...

5 Okt 201916min

32 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman V

32 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman V

In this fifth episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part V of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. In this portion of the memoir, Kol...

27 Sep 201916min

31 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part IV

31 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part IV

In this fourth episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part IV of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. In this portion of the memoir, K...

20 Sep 201916min

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