https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/26f459f5-e1ec-4ca9-9d0d-579f462e469a Political biography of Alexandra Kollontai (Ep. 3): WW1 & Collapse of the 2nd International TIMESTAMPS: Disintegration of the 2nd international: 0:10 Kollontai joins the bolsheviks and debates Lenin on tactics: 8:33 Kollontai struggles against Trotsky in America 20:00 Kollontai's views on the national question 23:09 Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vQ3VChmattGxnTVv__o6s5c Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/political-biography-of-alexandra-kollontai-ep-3-ww1-collapse-of-the-2nd-international/ SOURCES: Carsten Halvorsen, Vallankumouksen suurlähettiläs: Alexsandra Kollontayn elämä ja toiminta (vuosina 1872-1917) https://communismarchive2.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/halvorsen-vallankumouksen-suurlahettilas-alexandra-kollontayn-elama-ja-toiminta-v.-1872-1917.pdf Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography* Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik feminist: the life of Aleksandra Kollontai* Kollontai, The autobiography of a sexually emancipated Communist woman https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1926/autobiography.htm Kollontai, Hetkiä elämästäni https://mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/aleksandra-kollontai-hetkia-elamastani.pdf Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: socialism, feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution* Alexandra Kollontai by Tom Condit* Lenin, letter to Henriette Roland-Holst, March 8th, 1916 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/mar/08hrh.htm Lenin, letter to Aleksendra Kollontai, February 17th, 1917 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/17ak.htm Lenin, letter to Inessa Armand, February 19th, 1917 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/19ia.htm Stalin, Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1930/aug/27.htm *Porter, Clements, Farnsworth are both hostile anti-communist writers. Condit is a hostile Trotskyist writer. My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:26:26 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/26f459f5-e1ec-4ca9-9d0d-579f462e469a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.