A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

Un podcast de Kristen R. Ghodsee

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138 Épisodes

  1. 58 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 2.2

    Publié: 22/06/2020
  2. 57 - A.K. 47 - Red Love - Chapter 2.1

    Publié: 15/06/2020
  3. 56 - A.K. 47 - Red Love: Chapter 1

    Publié: 30/05/2020
  4. 55 - A.K. 47 - Red Love: Introduction

    Publié: 24/05/2020
  5. 54 - Bonus Episode - On Kollontai and Turning Fifty

    Publié: 26/04/2020
  6. 53 - A.K. 47 - Sisters Part III

    Publié: 17/04/2020
  7. 52 - A.K. 47 - Sisters Part II

    Publié: 10/04/2020
  8. 51 - A.K. 47 - Sisters Part I

    Publié: 01/04/2020
  9. 50 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Post-IWD Greetings from Wellington, New Zealand

    Publié: 10/03/2020
  10. 49 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - International Women's Day 2020

    Publié: 08/03/2020
  11. 48 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Discussion II

    Publié: 01/03/2020
  12. 47 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Discussion I

    Publié: 14/02/2020
  13. 46 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part V

    Publié: 08/02/2020
  14. 45 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part IV

    Publié: 30/01/2020
  15. 44 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part III

    Publié: 24/01/2020
  16. 43 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part II

    Publié: 07/01/2020
  17. 42 - A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part I

    Publié: 25/12/2019
  18. 41 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Kollontai with Angelina Eimannsberger

    Publié: 13/12/2019
  19. 40 - A.K. 47 - Soon (In 48 Years Time)

    Publié: 29/11/2019
  20. 39 - A.K. 47 - Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations III

    Publié: 18/11/2019

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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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