Writings by Alexandra Kollontai

(March 31 [Old Style Date: March 19] 1872 – March 9, 1952)

Was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik

• Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollontai

Works:

• Communism and the Family - First Published: in Komunistka, No. 2, 1920

• 1907-1916: International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers

• 1908: Introduction to “The Social Basis of the Women's Question”

• 1909: The Social Basis of the Women's Question

• 1912: The International Proletariat and War

• 1913: Women's Day

• 1914: The War and Our Immediate Tasks

• 1914-1916: A Giant Mind, a Giant Will

• 1915: Who Needs the War?

• 1915: Why was the German proletariat silent in the July Days?

• 1915: Preface to the Book Society and Motherhood

• 1915: The Third International (PDF)

• 1916: The Statue of Liberty

• 1916: Do Internationalists Want a Split?

• 1917: Our Memorial to the Fighters for Freedom

• 1917: Our Tasks

• 1917: Lenin at Smolny

• 1917: Why the Bolsheviks Must Win
  1918: The First Steps Towards the Protection of Motherhood

• 1918: V.I. Lenin and the First Congress of Women Workers
  1918: Decree on Child Welfare

• 1918: New Woman (from The New Morality and the Working Class)

• 1919: Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights

• 1919: What Are We Fighting For?

• 1919: History of the movement of Women workers in Russia

• 1920: International Women's Day

• 1920: Communism and the Family (more complete version)

• 1920: Communism and the Family

• 1920: An Interesting Letter from Russia

• 1921: The Labour of Women in the Evolution of the Economy

• 1921: Prostitution and ways of fighting it

• 1921: Workers' Opposition

• 1921: The Woman Worker and Peasant in Soviet Russia

• 1921: Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations

• 1921: Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle

• 1922: Soon (In 48 years' time)

• 1926: Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

• 1927: Red Love

• 1927: Women fighters in the days of the Great October Revolution

• 1927: What has the October Revolution done for Women in the West?

• 1929: Great Love

• 1946: The Soviet Woman – a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country

• 1946: Lenin Thought of Both Great and Small

• Archive maintained by Andy Blunden.