num_pages: 512
description: Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the worlds first woman ambassadors. She fought for abortion rights secularized marriage and paid maternity leaveand considered comradely love to be a political force. This reader in which artists and thinkers revisit Kollontais legacy in light of current feminist struggles stems from a research project by CuratorLab at Konstfack and Tensta konsthall that accompanied Dora Garcas exhibition Red Love. It also features the first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.
language: English
title: Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai
publisher: Sternberg Press