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Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai (Ep. 4): October Revolution and Social-Welfare

Playlist with all episodes in this series:
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/political-biography-of-alexandra-kollontai-ep-4-october-revolution-and-social-welfare

SOURCES:

Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik feminist: the life of Aleksandra Kollontai*

Kollontai, Hetkiä elämästäni
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/aleksandra-kollontai-hetkia-elamastani.pdf

Richard J. Evans, Comrades and sisters: feminism, socialism, and pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945*

Lenin at the Mezhrayontsi conference, Lenin Miscellany IV, Russ. ed.
neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2016/12/lenin-at-mezhrayontsi-conference.html?m=0

Lenin, Letter To Bolshevik Party Members, 18 October, 1917
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/18.htm

The history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) – short course
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01

Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography*

E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, vol. 1, New York : W.W. Norton, 1985*

Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: socialism, feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution*

Kollontai, “The First Steps Towards the Protection of Motherhood”, in From My Life and Work
neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-first-steps-towards-protection-of.html

Bessie Beatty, The Red Heart of Russia

*Clements, Evans, Porter, Carr and Farnsworth are hostile anti-communist writers.

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