Kristen Ghodsee reads Cathy Porter's 1980 translation of Kollontai's 1922 short story, "Conversation Piece," about a woman having to choose between the man she loves romantically and the man she loves intellectually and spiritually.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Listen to Kristen Ghodsee on the New York Times's Ezra Klein Show (also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc). Full transcript here
• Read a 2000-word abstract from Everyday Utopia in Jacobin Magazine
• Watch the Everyday Utopia book discussion with Arwa Mahdawi at the Free Library of Philadelphia
• Watch the Everyday Utopia book discussion with Juliet Alekseyeva at Politics & Prose
• Listen to Kristen Ghodsee on the Little Atoms podcast

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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.