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Alexandra Kollontai
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Bolshevism
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Communism
Eastern Europe
Elena Lagadinova
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Female revolutionaries
Inessa Armand
Leninism
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Marxism
Marxist feminism
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Red feminism
Russian Revolution
Socialism
Socialist feminism
USSR
why women have better sex under socialism
Women's liberation
Product details
- ISBN 9781839766619
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe, following the lives and careers of five prominent women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women's activist Elena Lagadinova.
In brief conversational chapters, Kristen Ghodsee renders the big ideas of socialist feminism accessible to those newly inspired by the emancipatory politics of insurgent left feminist movements around the globe.
In brief conversational chapters, Kristen Ghodsee renders the big ideas of socialist feminism accessible to those newly inspired by the emancipatory politics of insurgent left feminist movements around the globe.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the graduate group in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of ten books and her articles and essays have been translated into over 25 languages and have appeared in The New Republic, The Baffler, Dissent, Jacobin, The Lancet, Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
