Selected writings of Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Kollontaï et Alix Holt1977

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 contribution 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 Selected writings 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 revolution ; 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 life-work in its historical and biographical contexts, demonstrating both its necessary limitations and its extraordinary range.

"Alix Holt, in her careful, objective comments on the life and work of Miss Kollontai, has served her subject well.... She has given us the chance to become acquainted with the thought of a woman liberated before her time."
- New York Times Book Review

Titre original : Selected writings of Alexandra Kollontai (1977)