Kristen R. Ghodsee

Kristen R. Ghodsee is professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her eight books on gender, socialism, and post-socialism in Eastern Europe have been translated into nineteen languages. Ghodsee’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Le Monde Diplomatique, among other outlets. She’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on many podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.
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• Revolutionary Left Radio, "Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee" January 8, 2018

• Jacobin Radio, "Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe."

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, "What the legacy of the Russian Revolution means for socialism today," November 12, 2017

• BBC/PRI radio program, The World, "Sixth Bulgarian Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Poverty," an interview with Marco Werman

Articles about kristen ghodsee

articles by kristen ghodsee

• "Women's Unpaid Labor is Worth $10.9 Trillion," New York Times, March 5, 2020

• "Anti-anti-communism," Aeon.co, March 22, 2018 (with S. Sehon)

• "Finland's Red Women," Jacobin, January 10, 2018

• "The Youngest Partisan," Jacobin, December 1, 2017

• "Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism," New York Times, Sunday Review, August 12, 2017

• "Fantasies of Feminist History in Eastern Europe," with Adriana Zaharijević, Eurozine.com, July 31, 2015

• "The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria's Elena Lagadinova," ForeignAffairs.com, April 29, 2015

• "Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts," Dissent Magazine, Spring 2012