Arts
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, 2021Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio, Interview with Kristen Ghodsee, “The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai” June 18, 2021Article: “When the women’s movement went global,” Le Monde Diplomatique English, July 1, 2021Article: “Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,” Le Monde Diplomatique, June 30, 2021Article: “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, 2021New Translation: Por que as mulheres tem melhor sexo sob o socialismo e outros argumentos a favor da independência econômica, Autonomia LiterariaVideo: Book Launch, Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions, Foreign Policy Research InstituteVideo: Book Launch for Maria Todorova’s The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia