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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22 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part I

22 - A.K. 47 - The Social Basis of the Woman Question: Part I

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

22 Juni 201919min

21 - A.K. 47 - Marriage and Everyday Life - Part II

21 - A.K. 47 - Marriage and Everyday Life - Part II

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads further selections from Kollontai's 1926 speech, “Marriage and Everyday Life.” By this time Vladimir Lenin was dead after introducing the New Economic Policy ...

14 Juni 201918min

20 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Report from the Global Socialist Feminist Conference

20 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Report from the Global Socialist Feminist Conference

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee speaks with Julia Mead about reading and discussing Kollontai at the Global Socialist Feminism symposium at the University of Michigan from June 1-3, 2019. Discussed i...

8 Juni 201915min

19 - A.K. 47 - Marriage and Everyday Life - Part I

19 - A.K. 47 - Marriage and Everyday Life - Part I

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads selections from Kollontai's 1926 speech, “Marriage and Everyday Life.” By this time Vladimir Lenin was dead and Kollontai was already serving as a diplomat in...

1 Juni 201915min

18 - A.K. 47 - Decree on Child Welfare

18 - A.K. 47 - Decree on Child Welfare

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads the “Decree on Social Welfare” from January 31, 1918, written by Alexandra Kollontai when she was the Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Bolshevik governm...

25 Maj 201916min

17 - A.K. 47 - The Statue of Liberty

17 - A.K. 47 - The Statue of Liberty

In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses Alexandra Kollontai's 1916 essay on seeing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor for the first time. Kollontai was invited to the United Stat...

18 Maj 201916min

16 - A.K. 47 - Make Way for Winged Eros: Discussion III - Angelina Eimannsberger

16 - A.K. 47 - Make Way for Winged Eros: Discussion III - Angelina Eimannsberger

This is the third episode in a series of discussions that will feature Kristen R. Ghodsee with various guests reflecting on Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 essay: "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Wor...

11 Maj 201916min

15 - A.K. 47 - Make Way for Winged Eros: Discussion II - A 17-year-old High School Student

15 - A.K. 47 - Make Way for Winged Eros: Discussion II - A 17-year-old High School Student

This is the second episode in a series of discussions that will feature Kristen R. Ghodsee with various guests reflecting on Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 essay: "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Wo...

4 Maj 201916min

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