Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai (Ep. 3): WW1 & Collapse of the 2nd International
TIMESTAMPS:
Disintegration of the 2nd international: 0:10
Kollontai joins the bolsheviks and debates Lenin on tactics: 8:33
Kollontai struggles against Trotsky in America 20:00
Kollontai's views on the national question 23:09
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vQ3VChmattGxnTVv__o6s5c
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/political-biography-of-alexandra-kollontai-ep-3-ww1-collapse-of-the-2nd-international
SOURCES:
Carsten Halvorsen, Vallankumouksen suurlähettiläs: Alexsandra Kollontayn elämä ja toiminta (vuosina 1872-1917)
communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/halvorsen-vallankumouksen-suurlahettilas-alexandra-kollontayn-elama-ja-toiminta-v.-1872-1917.pdf
Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography*
Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik feminist: the life of Aleksandra Kollontai*
Kollontai, The autobiography of a sexually emancipated Communist woman
marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1926/autobiography.htm
Kollontai, Hetkiä elämästäni
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/aleksandra-kollontai-hetkia-elamastani.pdf
Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: socialism, feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution*
Alexandra Kollontai by Tom Condit*
Lenin, letter to Henriette Roland-Holst, March 8th, 1916
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/mar/08hrh.htm
Lenin, letter to Aleksendra Kollontai, February 17th, 1917
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/17ak.htm
Lenin, letter to Inessa Armand, February 19th, 1917
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/19ia.htm
Stalin, Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/aug/27.htm
*Porter, Clements, Farnsworth are both hostile anti-communist writers. Condit is a hostile Trotskyist writer.
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Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai (Ep. 3): WW1 & Collapse of the 2nd International
TIMESTAMPS:
Disintegration of the 2nd international: 0:10
Kollontai joins the bolsheviks and debates Lenin on tactics: 8:33
Kollontai struggles against Trotsky in America 20:00
Kollontai's views on the national question 23:09
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vQ3VChmattGxnTVv__o6s5c
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/political-biography-of-alexandra-kollontai-ep-3-ww1-collapse-of-the-2nd-international
SOURCES:
Carsten Halvorsen, Vallankumouksen suurlähettiläs: Alexsandra Kollontayn elämä ja toiminta (vuosina 1872-1917)
communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/halvorsen-vallankumouksen-suurlahettilas-alexandra-kollontayn-elama-ja-toiminta-v.-1872-1917.pdf
Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography*
Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik feminist: the life of Aleksandra Kollontai*
Kollontai, The autobiography of a sexually emancipated Communist woman
marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1926/autobiography.htm
Kollontai, Hetkiä elämästäni
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/aleksandra-kollontai-hetkia-elamastani.pdf
Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: socialism, feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution*
Alexandra Kollontai by Tom Condit*
Lenin, letter to Henriette Roland-Holst, March 8th, 1916
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/mar/08hrh.htm
Lenin, letter to Aleksendra Kollontai, February 17th, 1917
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/17ak.htm
Lenin, letter to Inessa Armand, February 19th, 1917
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/19ia.htm
Stalin, Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/aug/27.htm
*Porter, Clements, Farnsworth are both hostile anti-communist writers. Condit is a hostile Trotskyist writer.
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