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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30 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part III

30 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part III

In this third episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part III of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. This memoir was written as Kollon...

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29 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part II

29 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part II

In this second episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part II of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. This memoir was written as Kollon...

7 Sep 201916min

28 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part I

28 - A.K. 47 - Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman Part I

In this first episode of Season Two, Kristen Ghodsee reads Part I of Alexandra Kollontai's 1926 memoir: The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. This memoir was written as Kollonta...

2 Sep 201917min

27 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part V

27 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part V

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee's reads the fifth and final part of her selections from Alexandra Kollontai's 1909 book, The Social Basis of the Woman Question. This manuscript was written while A...

17 Aug 201918min

26 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part IV

26 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question Part IV

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee's reads the fourth part of her selections from Alexandra Kollontai's 1909 book, The Social Basis of the Woman Question. This manuscript was written while Alexandra ...

10 Aug 201918min

25 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode: The "Adventure" of Motherhood

25 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode: The "Adventure" of Motherhood

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee's teenage daughter returns to discuss some recent comments by a Canadian psychology professor who believes that women should embrace the "adventure of motherhood," eve...

30 Juli 201922min

24 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part III

24 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part III

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee's reads the third part of her selections from Alexandra Kollontai's 1909 book, The Social Basis of the Woman Question. This manuscript was written while Alexandra K...

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23 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part II

23 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part II

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee's reads the second part of her selections from Alexandra Kollontai's 1909 book, The Social Basis of the Woman Question. This manuscript was written while Alexandra ...

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