{"product_id":"selected-writings-of-alexandra-kollontai","title":"Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai","description":"Alexandra Kollontai—the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR’s first Minister of Social Welfare—is known today as a historic contributor to the international women’s movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to oppose the growth of the bureaucracy in the young socialist state. Her \u003cem\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e discuss the social democratic movement before the First World War, the history of the Russian women’s movement, and the debate between “feminist” and “socialist” women; the effects of the war on European socialism; the revolutions; the part played by women in the revolutionary events; the early manifestations of bureaucracy and Kollontai’s role as spokeswoman for the “workers’ opposition”; and morality, sexual politics, the family, and prostitution. It also includes writings from her later life as a Soviet official. Each section is introduced by a commentary in which Alix Holt explains the background and critically sets Kollontai’s unique lifework in its historical and biographical contexts, demonstrating both its necessary limitations and its extraordinary range.","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54251229675864,"sku":"9780393009743","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780393009743__676f724879847.jpg?v=1741159482","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/selected-writings-of-alexandra-kollontai","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}