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

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

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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 Kollontai began her diplomatic career when she was 54-years-old and a veteran of the revolution. Lenin was already dead, Stalin was seizing power, and Kollontai was reflecting on the achievements of her life thus far. The initial publication of the memoir was heavily censored, particularly the passages w...

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