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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126 - A.K. 47 - The Workers Opposition - Part 1

126 - A.K. 47 - The Workers Opposition - Part 1

Kristen Ghodsee reads the first part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 text: "The Workers Opposition." Mentioned in this episode are these upcoming events: Online - How To Academy, August 3 (6:00pm GMT)...

27 Heinä 202321min

125 - A.K. 47 - Introduction to The Workers Opposition

125 - A.K. 47 - Introduction to The Workers Opposition

On the eve of a possible UPS strike in the United States, Kristen Ghodsee reads a 1968 introduction to Alexandra Kollontai's 1921 pamphlet written in support of the Workers Opposition. This was a fund...

10 Heinä 202325min

124 - A.K. 47 - Conversation Piece

124 - A.K. 47 - Conversation Piece

Kristen Ghodsee reads Cathy Porter's 1980 translation of Kollontai's 1922 short story, "Conversation Piece," about a woman having to choose between the man she loves romantically and the man she loves...

11 Kesä 202321min

123 - A.K. 47 - A 1982 Review of Kollontai's "A Great Love" in the New York Times

123 - A.K. 47 - A 1982 Review of Kollontai's "A Great Love" in the New York Times

Kristen Ghodsee reads an April 25, 1982 review of a [then] new English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's collection, "A Great Love," translated by Cathy Porter. Mentioned in this episode are: A...

17 Touko 202319min

122 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - the Anti-Sexist Kollontai Vodka of Italy

122 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - the Anti-Sexist Kollontai Vodka of Italy

Kristen Ghodsee reads an article about the creation in 2019 of the Kollontai Vodka Antisessista by a group of self-managed workers in Milan. Sales from this vodka are used to finance a autonomist lite...

26 Huhti 202316min

121 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 2

121 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 2

Kristen Ghodsee reads the second half of a biographical article written by the American Katharine Anthony and published in The North American Review in September 1930. At this point in time, Kollontai...

18 Huhti 202319min

120 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 1

120 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 1

Kristen Ghodsee reads the first half of a biographical article written by the American Katharine Anthony and published in The North American Review in September 1930. At this point in time, Kollontai ...

11 Huhti 202319min

119 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Clara Zetkin on the Establishment of 8 March as International Communist Women's Day

119 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Clara Zetkin on the Establishment of 8 March as International Communist Women's Day

To celebrate International Women's Day in 2023, Kristen Ghodsee reads an abridged version of Clara Zetkin's article on the official establishment of March 8 as International Communist Women's Day. The...

8 Maalis 202319min

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