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A.K. 47 - The Loves of Three Generations Part IV
A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai
English - January 30, 2020 22:00 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 95 ratingsArts Education education socialist feminism alexandra kollontai socialism feminism women's rights kristen r. ghodsee history communism sexuality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Kristen R. Ghodsee reads the fourth part of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 short story, "The Loves of Three Generations," her most controversial piece of fiction and one that caused her terrible amounts of trouble with her Bolshevik colleagues. This story is written as a letter to Kollontai from a revolutionary comrade who is having personal problems and seeks Kollontai's advice. This colleague wants to know if her own feelings of betrayal and jealousy are remnants of the bourgeois past or whether she is justified in her indignation. This story reflects Kollonta's proposal that romantic love will come second to love for work and for the collective in the new socialist society to come. Most Russian readers were horrified by this story in 1923.
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