Red Love
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
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Alexandra Kollontai
Author: Cathy Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781608463688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.
Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780393009743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlix Holt, in her careful, objective comments on the life and work of Miss Kollontai, has served her subject well. . . .She has given us this chance to become acquainted with the thought of a woman liberated before her time. New York Times Book Review"
Bolshevik Feminist
Author: Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexandra Kollontai: Writings from the Struggle
Author: Cathy Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781912926305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexandra Kollontai was a major figure in the Russian revolutionary movement, an activist from the 1890s, a pioneer of women's liberation and one of the founders of International Women's Day. This new collection is a wide-ranging selection of her writings from the revolutionary struggle, from her first discovery of Marx in her twenties, to her place in the first Bolshevik government, and her fight to defend Soviet power. Edited and translated by Cathy Porter, this collection includes articles translated for the first time into English.
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
Author: Alexandra Kollontai
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781105836978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. "For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as fighter. Subconsciously this motive was the leading force of my whole life and activity. To go my way, to work, to struggle, to create side by side with men, and to strive for the attainment of a universal human goal (for nearly thirty years, indeed, I have belonged to the Communists) but, at the same time, to shape my personal, intimate life as a woman according to my own will and according to the given laws of my nature. It was this that conditioned my line of vision."
The Workers Opposition in Russia
Author: Aleksandra Kollontaĭ
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Radicality of Love
Author: Srećko Horvat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-01-11
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 074569117X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love? Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it seems that in the 21st century of new technologies of the self (Grindr, Tinder, online dating, etc.) we are faced with a hyperinflation of sex, not love. By going back to the sexual revolution of the October Revolution and its subsequent repression, to Che's dilemma between love and revolutionary commitment and to the period of '68 (from communes to terrorism) and its commodification in late capitalism, the Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat gives a possible answer to the question of why it is that the most radical revolutionaries like Lenin or Che were scared of the radicality of love. What is so radical about a seemingly conservative notion of love and why is it anything but conservative? This short book is a modest contribution to the current upheavals around the world - from Tahrir to Taksim, from Occupy Wall Street to Hong Kong, from Athens to Sarajevo - in which the question of love is curiously, surprisingly, absent.
The Women's Revolution
Author: Judy Cox
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1608467864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy Cox argues that women were essential to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner, The Women’s Revolution tells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organize, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.
Red Valkyries
Author: Kristen Ghodsee
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 183976662X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the 19th and 20th centuries-the aristocratic Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue, Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand, Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women's activist, Elena Lagadinova-Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of socialist and communist women. None of these women were "perfect" leftists. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege, but they still managed to move forward their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause. Always walking a fine line between the need for class solidarity and the desire to force their sometimes callous male colleagues to take women's issues seriously, these five women pursued novel solutions with lessons for activists of today. In brief conversational chapters-with plenty of concrete examples from the history of the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe and contemporary reflections on the status of women in the world today-Ghodsee renders the big ideas of socialist feminism accessible to those newly inspired by the emancipatory politics of insurgent left feminist movements around the globe.
