139 - A.K. 47 - Who Needs the War? - Part 1

A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai - Un podcast de Kristen R. Ghodsee

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Kristen Ghodsee reads Alexandra Kollontai's 1915 essay about World War I–"Who Needs the War?"–and looks for lessons applicable to the present day. This translation is from a 1984 collection of Kollontai's writing published by Progress Publishers in the Soviet Union, which claims that the essay was written while Kollontai was in exile in Norway. She sent it to Vladimir Lenin (then in exile in Switzerland) who also edited it before publication. The final pamphlet went into multiple edition...

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