Kristen Ghodsee reads Cathy Porter’s translation of an excerpt from Alexandra Kollontai’s autobiography. Reflecting on a visit to Narva, Estonia in March of 1896, when she was just 24-years-old, Kollontai describes the event that radicalized her forever.
Recent Writings from Kristen Ghodsee:
“Clima y Utopía,” El País Semanal, October 17, 2025
“Materialists skewers the dating market – but stops too short,” Jacobin Magazine, July 12, 2025
“From Democracy to ‘Safety’,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 3, 2025
Recent Interviews with Kristen Ghodsee:
Meagan Day, “How Manosphere Content Placates Disenfranchised Men,” Jacobin Magazine, May 1, 2025 (Also in Spanish, French, and German)
“Der Sozialismus behandelte Frauen besser,” Konkret Magazin, May 2025: 52-52
Meagan Day, “Tradwives are a Harbinger of Systemic Breakdown,” Jacobin Magazine, April 27, 2025 (Also in Spanish)
Recent writings about Kollontai:
Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: Writings from the Struggle
Maria Wiesner, Radikal selbstbestimmt – Ihrer Zeit weit voraus. Was wir von Alexandra Kollontai lernen können
Mridula Manglam, “Across Struggles and Time: If I Could Speak to Alexandra Kollontai.”
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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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