A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

18 - A.K. 47 - Decree on Child Welfare

May 25, 2019 Kristen R. Ghodsee Season 1 Episode 17
A.K. 47 - Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai
18 - A.K. 47 - Decree on Child Welfare
Show Notes

In this episode, Kristen Ghodsee reads the “Decree on Social Welfare” from January 31, 1918, written by Alexandra Kollontai when she was the Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Bolshevik government. There are quite a few external sources mentioned in this episode and they are detailed below.

Biographies of Kollontai in English (please note the alternative spellings of her name, which are an artifact of different traditions of the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin letters.)

 Other books about early Soviet policies about women and the family: 

 Drafts of the Communist Manifesto: 

The intro music is a Russian version of The Internationale.
More info about the host can be found at: www.kristenghodsee.com

Also see: AlexandraKollontai.com – A Website for All Things Kollontai 

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