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Comrade Kollontai

Writings on Sex, Family and Women’s Rights

Alexandra Kollontai author Liza Featherstone editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:OR Books

Published:28th Mar '24

£12.99

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"The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children."

"Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst."

— Alexandra Kollontai

 

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was the leading advocate for women’s rights and free love within the Bolshevik party and the first woman in history to become an official member of a governing cabinet.

Comrade Kollontai is a concise, sparkling collection of Kollontai's views on sex, women and the family. Richly illustrated, the book is edited by the highly-regarded socialist feminist writer Liza Featherstone. She shows how Kollontai’s work has a new relevance with the revival of socialist feminism and in light of contemporary global struggles over abortion rights and government support for families and children.

ISBN: 9781682193570

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135 pages