Kristen Ghodsee reads and discusses Alexandra Kollontai’s 1914 essay, “War and Our Immediate Tasks,” which reflects her early commitment to pacifism during World War I. Mentioned in this episode is Leo Tolstoy’s important book, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, the foundational document of Christian anarchism and a key theoretical elucidation of pacifism which had a profound impact on Mohandas Gandhi (and through Gandhi on Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Also mentioned in this episode are several podcasts, articles, and a new book by Kristen Ghodsee:
Podcast: National Public Radio, Throughline, “Capitalism: What Is It?” June 24, 2021
Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio, Interview with Kristen Ghodsee, “The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai” June 18, 2021
Article: “When the women’s movement went global,” Le Monde Diplomatique English, July 1, 2021
Article: “Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,” Le Monde Diplomatique, June 30, 2021
Article: “Politicized Representations of Love and Sex: Reading the GDR’s Das Magazin,” with Angelina Eimannsberger, Groniek, No. 226, 2021.
New Book: Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions (with Mitchell Orenstein), Oxford University Press, 2021
New Translation: Por que as mulheres tem melhor sexo sob o socialismo e outros argumentos a favor da independência econômica, Autonomia Literaria
Video: Book Launch, Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Video: Book Launch for Maria Todorova’s
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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
