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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166 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part III

166 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part III

Kristen Ghodsee reads a 1906 essay of Alexandra Kollontai, which is weirdly prescient of the present day, 120 years later. This is the third and final installment of a multipart episode with reading, ...

27 Aug 19min

165 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part II

165 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part II

Kristen Ghodsee reads a 1906 essay of Alexandra Kollontai, which is weirdly prescient of the present day, 120 years later. This is the second installment of a multipart episode with reading, commentar...

10 Juni 20min

164 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part I

164 - A.K 47 - Who are the social democrats and what do they want? - part I

Kristen Ghodsee reads a 1906 essay of Alexandra Kollontai, which is weirdly prescient of the present day, 120 years later. This is the first installment of a multipart episode with reading, commentary...

27 Maj 23min

163 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - What would Kollontai think of Taylor Swift?

163 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - What would Kollontai think of Taylor Swift?

In this extended episode, Kristen Ghodsee and her daughter enjoy a wide-ranging discussion with two special guests on the music and global influence of Taylor Swift, particularly in light of her recen...

13 Maj 54min

162 - A.K. 47 - “Formative Years” - Celebrating the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s Birth

162 - A.K. 47 - “Formative Years” - Celebrating the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s Birth

On the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s birth, Kristen Ghodsee reads a section from her chapter "Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952): Communism as the Only Way Toward Women’s Liberation," written with Nat...

31 Mars 32min

161 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 2026 International Women’s Day from the streets of Berlin

161 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 2026 International Women’s Day from the streets of Berlin

Kristen Ghodsee reports from the streets of Berlin during the 2026 official 8 March demonstration and the march from Oranienplatz to the Rotes Rathaus. Some links to articles about the history of Int...

9 Mars 15min

160 - A.K. 47 - “Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg: Fighters, Martyrs, Heroes"

160 - A.K. 47 - “Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg: Fighters, Martyrs, Heroes"

Kristen Ghodsee reads Alexandra Kollontai’s February 1919 obituary for her murdered German comrades: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. An uncorrected proof of Ghodsee's chapter on the Luxemburg-Lieb...

11 Jan 18min

159 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 7th Anniversary of the Podcast!

159 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 7th Anniversary of the Podcast!

Kristen Ghodsee shares a conversation with her daughter in Berlin on the 7th anniversary of the podcast. This is their 17th shared episode. Send us Fan Mail Thanks so much for listening. This podcas...

1 Jan 34min

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