Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4RBL5F | 2022 | 5 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 171 MB
Author: Kristen Ghodsee
Narrator: Esther Wane
The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists. Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist 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, scientist, and global women's activist Elena Lagadinova-Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of radicals. None of these women was a perfect leftist. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege. But they managed to fight for their own political projects with perseverance and dedication.