Cathy Porter

Alexandra Kollontai

A Biography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781608463688
• ISBN-10: 1608463680
• Artikelnr.: 39565225

Autorenporträt

Cathy Porter was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the political life and intellectual ideas of the nineteenth - and twentieth-century Russia. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution, and translator of Kollontai's fiction Love of Worker Bees. Porter lives in London and divides her time between translating, teaching literacy and researching Russian history.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Chronology xi
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Too Much Family Happiness 7
Chapter Two: Small Deeds 38
Chapter Three: Marxists and Revisionists 65
Chapter Four: What Is To Be Done? 85
Chapter Five: After Bloody Sunday 103
Chapter Six: Heckling the Feminists 121
Chapter Seven: Exiled in Workers' Europe 141
Chapter Eight: The Collapse of Internationalism 164
Chapter Nine: War on War! 190
Chapter Ten: Agitating for Revolution 213
Chapter Eleven: Militant Spring 233
Chapter Twelve: Peace, Bread, Land and Justice 250
Chapter Thirteen: Cooks and Commissars 269
Chapter Fourteen: Civil War 293
Chapter Fifteen: The Crisis of the Revolution 323
Chapter Sixteen: Workers' Opposition 347
Chapter Seventeen: Exiled in Diplomats' Europe 372
Chapter Eighteen: Years of Uncertainty 390
Chapter Nineteen: The Purges, Fascism and War 412
Chapter Twenty: The Last Years 445
Notes 452
Bibliography 474
Organisations and Russian Terms 499
Index