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

Podcast autorstwa Kristen R. Ghodsee

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  1. 122 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - the Anti-Sexist Kollontai Vodka of Italy

    Opublikowany: 26.04.2023
  2. 121 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 2

    Opublikowany: 18.04.2023
  3. 120 - A.K. 47 - "Alexandra Kollontay: The World's One Woman Ambassador" Part 1

    Opublikowany: 11.04.2023
  4. 119 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Clara Zetkin on the Establishment of 8 March as International Communist Women's Day

    Opublikowany: 8.03.2023
  5. 118 - A.K. 47 - Alexandra Kollontai in Mexico

    Opublikowany: 22.02.2023
  6. 117 - A.K. 47 - The First Steps Towards the Protection of Motherhood

    Opublikowany: 15.02.2023
  7. 116 - A.K. 47 - Kollontai Seizes the Alexander Nevsky Monastery for War Veterans

    Opublikowany: 5.02.2023
  8. 115 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Should we put a value on friendship?

    Opublikowany: 29.01.2023
  9. 114 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - 4th Anniversary Interview: "Self care is out; community care is in"

    Opublikowany: 8.01.2023
  10. 113 - A.K. 47 - "Russian Women Are Still Charming"

    Opublikowany: 4.12.2022
  11. 112 - A.K. 47 - "Heroine of the Bolsheviki Upheaval In Petrograd"

    Opublikowany: 21.11.2022
  12. 111 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for Their Rights - Part 7

    Opublikowany: 1.11.2022
  13. 110 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Kollontai and College Sex - Part 2

    Opublikowany: 23.10.2022
  14. 109 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Kollontai and College Sex - Part 1

    Opublikowany: 22.10.2022
  15. 108 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for their Rights - Part 6

    Opublikowany: 12.07.2022
  16. 107 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for their Rights - Part 5

    Opublikowany: 5.07.2022
  17. 106 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for their Rights - Part 4

    Opublikowany: 19.06.2022
  18. 105 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for their Rights - Part 3

    Opublikowany: 8.06.2022
  19. 104 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - The Leaked Supreme Court Opinion, Romania, and Kollontai on Abortion

    Opublikowany: 7.05.2022
  20. 103 - A.K. 47 - Women Workers Struggle for Their Rights - Part 2

    Opublikowany: 1.05.2022

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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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