[BEST OF] The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jun 18, 2021
Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to the show, this time to discuss the life, work, and legacy of the famous Marxist Feminist Alexandra Kollontai. We discuss her life, her radicalization, her relationship with other famous revolutionaries, her role in the October Revolution, her enduring contributions to feminism, Marxism, and proletarian history, and much, much more.
Check out Kristen's work here: https://kristenghodsee.com/
Check out AK-47, Kristen's podcast dedicated to Kollontai here: https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast
Here are all the previous episodes of RLR that Kristen has been a guest on:
Red Hangover: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/red-hangover-legacies-of-20th-century-communism-w-dr-kristen-r-ghodsee
International Women's Day: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/womens-day
Women Behind the Iron Curtain: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/women-under-socialism
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I have a wonderful episode for you today. We have back on this show, Professor Kristen Gatsi, who's been on RevLeft numerous times for numerous fan favorite episodes. This time she's on to talk about the Marxist feminist Alexandra |
| 0:23.1 | Collentai. This is a deep dive into her life and then in the second section into her |
| 0:29.0 | philosophy and contributions to feminism, to Marxism, to the struggle for liberation on all fronts. |
| 0:37.0 | And you can tell when you listen to Kristen talk about Colantai |
| 0:41.4 | how deep of an influence she has had on Kristen, |
| 0:46.2 | and Kristen just talks fluently and can talk for hours about Collinthai. |
| 0:50.7 | So I could not have asked for a better guest to cover the life and work of |
| 0:55.5 | this amazing proletarian and feminist hero. |
| 0:58.8 | So without further ado, we're just going to get right into the episode. |
| 1:01.8 | I will say this, though, that since Kristen has been on so many times, in the show notes |
| 1:06.1 | to this episode, I'll make sure to actually link all the times that Kristen has been on Rev Left. |
| 1:11.4 | So if you like this episode, which I'm sure you will, and you haven't heard some of those |
| 1:15.5 | previous interviews and discussions that we've had, they'll be in the show notes so you can go back |
| 1:20.2 | and sort of check out all the times that Kristen has a blessed Rev Left with her presence. |
| 1:24.9 | And lastly, if you stick around to after the outro music, |
| 1:28.7 | you'll hear me read an article by Kristen on Collin Thai called The Most Famous Feminist |
| 1:34.7 | you've never heard of, in which, among other things, she tells a fascinating story about how |
| 1:39.6 | Colin Tai helped German Jews escape the Nazis. So listen after the outro music for that wonderful article as well. |
| 1:46.4 | But without further ado, let's get into this wonderful episode on the life and work of |
| 1:50.3 | Alexander Collentai with my friend, Kristen Gotzi. |
| 1:54.0 | Enjoy. My name is Kristen Godzi. |
| 2:07.2 | I am a professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the graduate |
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