#  About Kristen R. Ghodsee 

 



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Kristen R. Ghodsee is an award-winning author and professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as a member on the graduate groups of Anthropology and Comparative Literature. Ghodsee’s articles and essays have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have appeared in publications such as *Dissent, Foreign Affairs*, *Jacobin*, *The Baffler*, *The New Republic,* *Quartz*, *NBC Think*, *The Lancet*, *Project Syndicate*, *Le Monde Diplomatique*, *Die Tageszeitung****,*** *The Washington Post*, and the *New York Times.* She is the author of 12 books, including: *Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War* (Duke University Press, 2019) and *Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence* (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which has had 16 international editions in 15 languages. In 2021, she published *Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Impacts of the 1989 Revolutions* with Oxford University Press (co-authored with Mitchell A. Orenstein). She hosts the podcast, [A.K. 47 - Forty-seven Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai](http://ak47.buzzsprout.com/), which inspired her 2022 book, *Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women*.

 Her latest book, [*Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life*](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyday-Utopia/Kristen-R-Ghodsee/9781982190217?utm_campaign=everyday_utopia&utm_content=&utm_medium=author_site&utm_source=author_post), appeared in 2023 with Simon & Schuster.

 **[Full academic CV here](/file_url/735)**

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