Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai (Ep. 5): Brest-Litovsk to NEP (1918-21)

Playlist with all episodes in this series:
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/political-biography-of-alexandra-kollontai-ep-5-brest-litovsk-to-nep-1918-21

SOURCES:

Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography*

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

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

Lenin, Comment on the Behaviour of the “Left Communists”
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x01.htm

Lenin, All Out for the Fight Against Denikin!
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/03.htm

Sidney & Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, Third ed. in one volume, Longmans, Green and co. 1947

E. H. Carr, The Russian Revolution: from Lenin to Stalin, New York: Free Press, 1979*

Elizabeth A. Wood, The baba and the comrade: gender and politics in revolutionary Russia*

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

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