#  Other Publications 

 



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Although I am an academic, I very much consider myself a writer as well. In addition to my books and peer-reviewed journal articles, I write in a wide variety of genres.

**Recent articles:**

“Après 1989, l’autre grande dépression,” [Manuel d’autodéfense intellectuelle — Histoire](https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/publications/manuel_d_autodefense_intellectuelle_histoire/)**,** *Le Monde Diplomatique*, September 12, 2024

“[America, Don’t Succumb to Escapism](https://newrepublic.com/article/183350/america-self-care-political-escapism-soviet-union),” *The New Republic*, July 4, 2024

“[A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee](https://themillions.com/2023/12/a-year-in-reading-kristen-r-ghodsee.html),” *The Millions*, December 6, 2023

“[Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday Lift of Books for the Lefties in Your Life](https://lithub.com/marxism-and-mistletoe-a-holiday-list-of-books-for-the-lefties-in-your-life/),” *LitHub.com*, December 6, 2023

“[Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely,](https://www.thenation.com/article/society/family-architecture-housing/)” *The Nation*, June 28, 2023

“[Gender Oppression isn’t inherent in human nature](https://jacobin.com/2023/06/sexism-patriarchy-gender-history-archeology-feminism),” *Jacobin Magazine*, June 23, 2023

“[The Ukrainian Utopia that almost Existed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/06/22/ukraine-utopia-makhnovshchina/),” *The Washington Post*, June 23, 2023

"[To Smash the Patriarchy, We Need to Get Specific About What It Means](https://jacobin.com/2023/06/patriarchy-traditional-multigenerational-wealth-privilege-feminism)," *Jacobin Magazine,* June 9, 2023

“[For Albania, Capitalism’s Promise of Freedom Soon Turned Sour](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/albanian-communism-lea-ypi-memoir-free-end-of-history-book-review),” *Jacobin Magazine*, November 11, 2021

“[Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-low-vaccination-rates-in-eastern-europe-by-kristen-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2021-11),” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, *Project Syndicate*, November 8, 2021, also in [Russian](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-low-vaccination-rates-in-eastern-europe-by-kristen-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2021-11/russian), [German](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-low-vaccination-rates-in-eastern-europe-by-kristen-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2021-11/german), and [Arabic](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-low-vaccination-rates-in-eastern-europe-by-kristen-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2021-11/arabic)

“[When the women’s movement went global](https://mondediplo.com/2021/07/07women-socialism),” *Le Monde Diplomatique English*, July 1, 2021

“[Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,](https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/07/GHODSEE/63271)” *Le Monde Diplomatique*, June 30, 2021; \[In Spanish\] [Las ‘abuelas rojas’ del movimiento internacional de las mujeres](https://mondiplo.com/las-abuelas-rojas-del-movimiento-internacional-de), *Le Monde Diplomatique en Español,* July 2021, also in Italian.

“[Freeman Dyson Refused to Let Go of His Optimism About the World](https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/freeman-dyson-mathematician-physicist-socialist),” *Jacobin Magazine*, December 15, 2020

“[Blueprint for Feminism](https://jewishcurrents.org/blueprint-for-feminism/),” *Jewish Currents*, October 14, 2020

“[Debatte: Mitgefühl nicht verschenken](https://taz.de/!5684065/),” *TAZ*, May 22, 2020

"[My daughter's abandoned prom dress](https://msmagazine.com/2020/05/16/my-daughters-abandoned-prom-dress/)," *Ms. Magazine*, May 16, 2020

“[The Most Famous Feminist You’ve Never Heard Of](https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/29/the-most-famous-feminist-youve-never-heard-of/),” *Ms. Magazine*, March 29, 2020

"[How the socialist behind paid child care and parental leave was erased from women's history,](https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/how-socialist-behind-paid-child-care-parental-leave-was-erased-ncna1145641?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)" *NBC Think*, March 7, 2020

“[Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/04/opinion/women-unpaid-labor.html)” with Gus Wezerek, *New York Times*, March 5, 2020

"[Socialists have long fought for women's rights](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/02/socialism-feminism-august-bebel-germany-social-democratic-party)," *Jacobin*, Febraury 28, 2020

“[Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate](https://www.aaup.org/article/faculty-forum-tyranny-immediate#.Xj2XJibPxTY),” *Academe*, Winter 2020

“[Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies,](https://www.ft.com/content/1eec4d1e-15fb-11ea-9ee4-11f260415385)” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, *Financial Times*, December 5, 2019

"[What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce](https://qz.com/1746284/socialist-countries-employ-more-women-in-math-and-science/)," *Quartz*, November 13, 2019

"[Revolutions for Whom?](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11)" *Project Syndicate*, with Mitchell A. Orenstein, November 2, 2019 \[Translated into [Arabic](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11/arabic), [Chinese](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11/chinese), [German](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11/german), [Russian](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11/russian), [Macedonian](https://www.novamakedonija.com.mk/mislenja/pro-ili-kontra/%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE/), and [Spanish](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11/spanish)\]

[Fake It Before, During, and After You Make It](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/the-politician-review-gwyneth-paltrow-authenticity), *Jacobin*, October 8, 2019

“[La guerra de orgasmos la ganó Alemania oriental](https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/04/ideas/1570201563_930103.html),” \[published excerpt\] *El País*, October 6, 2019

[How Banning Abortion Will Transform America,](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/alabama-georgia-abortion-laws-like-communist-romania-by-maria-bucur-and-kristen-r-ghodsee-2019-05) *Project Syndicate*, with Maria Bucur, May 15, 2019

[Regime Change Breeds Demagogues,](https://newrepublic.com/article/153253/regime-change-breeds-demagogues) *The New Republic*, March 11, 2019

- [как смена режима порождает авторитарных правителей](https://inosmi.ru/politic/20190312/244729792.html#comments) \[Russian\]
- [Cum schimbarea regimurilor favorizează ascensiunea autoritarismului](https://ro.sputnik.md/analytics/20190314/25156125/Cum-schimbarea-regimurilor-favorizeaza-instaurarea-autoritarismului.html) \[Romanian\]

[Have you wished your mother a Happy International Women’s Day yet?](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/opinion/international-womens-day-socialism.html?partner=IFTTT) *New York Times*, March 8, 2019

- [¿Has deseado a tu madre un feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer?](http://www.sinpermiso.info/textos/has-deseado-a-tu-madre-un-feliz-dia-internacional-de-la-mujer) \[Spanish\]

[An American Tale: How Cold War Officialdom Made the World Safe for Propaganda](https://thebaffler.com/salvos/an-american-tale-ghodsee), *The Baffler*, No. 44, March 2019

- “[El cuento de Estados Unidos,](https://ctxt.es/es/20191023/Politica/29067/guerra-fria-urss-propaganda-comunismo-cia-voa-comunismo.htm)” \[Spanish\] *Contexto*, October 23, 2019

[Gendered impacts of privatisation and austerity in eastern Europe](https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(19)30167-9.pdf), *The Lancet*, February 9, 2019

[What the socialist Kama Sutra tells us about sex behind the Iron Curtain](http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/20/what-communist-kama-sutra-tells-us-about-sex-ussr), *Washington Post*, November 20, 2018

- [что может рассказать нам о сексе за Железным занавесом социалистическая «Камасутра»](https://inosmi.ru/social/20181122/244062229.html)\[Russian\]

[Sex and money: the two things always linked in women’s lives](https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/women-sex-gender-pay-gap-capitalism-sexism/), inews.co.uk, November 20, 2018

[What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women?](https://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no2/what-has-socialism-ever-done-for-women) (with Julia Mead) *Catalyst*, Vol 2. No. 2, 2018

[Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist](https://read.dukeupress.edu/world-policy-journal/article/35/2/70/134857/Crashing-the-PartyThe-radical-legacy-of-a-Soviet),*World Policy Journal*, No, 2, Summer 2018

[Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, and Democratic Decay: Reflections on the Political Commentaries of Ivan Krastev](https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1409-paranoia-conspiracy-theories-and-democratic-decay-reflections-on-the-political-commentaries-of-ivan-krastev), *Cultural Anthropology*, April 25, 2018

[Anti-anti-communism](https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance), *Aeon.co*, March 22, 2018 (with S. Sehon)

- [Анти-антикоммунизм](https://inosmi.ru/social/20180327/241809946.html) \[Russian\]

[Finland's Red Women](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/finland-women-red-guards-civil-war), *Jacobin*, January 10, 2018

- [Красные женщины Финляндии](http://september.media/archives/2182) \[Russian\]

[Exonerando a los fascistas en la Europa del Este](/file_url/485), *Nuestra Historia*, No. 4, 2017.

[Partisanka, Farewell](http://www.tol.org/client/article/27401-obituary-partisanka-farewell.html), *Transitions Online*, December 11, 2017

[The Youngest Partisan](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/elena-lagadinova-bulgaria-partisan-amazon-gender-equality), *Jacobin*, December 1, 2017

[Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html), *New York Times*, Sunday Review, August 12, 2017

- [社会主义国家女性更“性”福](https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20170814/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism/) \[Chinese\]
- [Warum DDR-Frauen den besseren Sex hatten](https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wirtschaft/konjunktur/warum-ddrfrauen-den-besseren-sex-hatten/story/29896162) \[German\]
- [Почему при социализме секс у женщин был лучше](https://inosmi.ru/social/20170820/240049004.html) \[Russian\]

[The Missing War](/file_url/464), *Anthropology and Humanism*, 42(1) 2017: 36-38

[Mi hija y el horror de Donald Trump](https://issuu.com/revistaengarce/docs/ii_ano_numero_4), *Engarce* (Mexico), Año 2, No. 4 2017: 32-34

[Einstein's Pacifism: A Conversation with Wolfram Wette](https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/ghodsee-einstein-pacifism), *The Institute Letter*, Fall 2015

[Sonya Michel: Mentor and Mensch](http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/276.extract), (with Maria Bucur-Deckard) *Social Politics*, 22(3) 2015: 276-282

[Fantasies of Feminist History in Eastern Europe](http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2015-07-31-ghodsee-en.html)," with Adriana Zaharijević, *Eurozine.com*, July 31, 2015

- “[Fantazije O Feminističkoj Povijesti U Istočnoj Europi - Odgovor Slavenki Drakulić](https://voxfeminae.net/pravednost/fantazije-o-feministickoj-povijesti-u-istocnoj-europi-odgovor-slavenki-drakulic-2/)” \[Serbian\]

[The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria's Elena Lagadinova](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/bulgaria/2015-04-29/left-side-history), *ForeignAffairs.com*, April 29, 2015

- "[Η αριστερή πλευρά της ιστορίας: Η κληρονομιά που άφησε η Elena Lagadinova της Βουλγαρίας](http://www.foreignaffairs.gr/print/70308)" \[Greek\]

[Monuments and Memory Wars in Hungary](http://muftah.org/monuments-memory-wars-hungary/), *Muftah.org*, November 10, 2014

[Victims of Communism and Historical Amnesia in Eastern Europe](http://muftah.org/historical-amnesia-in-eastern-europe/#.VFvT6OeN7oA), *Muftah.org*, September 15, 2014

Women's Rights and the Cold War, *Vagabond Magazine*, September 2014. ([pdf](/file_url/268))

[Photoessay: A Tale of Two Protests](http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/a-tale-of-two-protests/), *Reviews & Critical Commentary*, March 26, 2014

[Who was Frank Thompson?](http://vagabond.bg/features/2629-who-was-frank-thompson.html) *Vagabond Magazine*, November 2013.

[Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts](http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-specter-still-haunts-revisiting-1989), *Dissent Magazine*, Spring 2012

[Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women's Lives Under Communism](http://bingdev.binghamton.edu/jwh/?page_id=707), *Journal of Women's History*: Beyond the Page, Fall 2012

[Rescuing Tolstoy](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/opinion/11iht-edletters11.html?_r=0), *International Herald Tribune,* 2011

[Crying Dyson](/file_url/269), an interview with Professor Freeman Dyson for *Geek Magazine* in 2007

   ![Kristen Ghodsee in a Marlene's Töchter dress](/sites/g/files/omnuum3566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/kristenghodsee/files/kristen_ghodsee_in_marlenes_tochter.jpg?itok=YECdyrvH) 

 

**Guest Blog posts:**

[Intersectional before it was cool](https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/intersectional-before-it-was-cool-a-guest-post-by-kristen-ghodsee/), Duke University Press blog (February 12, 2019)

[Why I like Typewriters](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/30/why-i-like-typewriters/), Savage Minds blog, (January 30, 2015)

[A Political Suicide and the Return of the Greek Left](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/26/a-political-suicide-and-the-return-of-the-greek-left/), Savage Minds blog (January 26, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: Write First Drafts in One Go](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/23/ethnographers-as-writers-write-first-drafts-in-one-go/)," Savage Minds blog (January 23, 2015)

"[The Ethnographic Book Trailer?](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/21/the-ethnographic-book-trailer/)" Savage Minds blog (January 21, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: Consider Endnotes](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/19/ethnographers-as-writers-consider-endnotes/)," Savage Minds blog, (January 19, 215)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part II](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/16/ethnographers-as-writers-theory-and-data-part-ii/), " Savage Minds blog, (January 16, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data Part I](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/14/ethnographers-as-writers-theory-and-data-part-i/)," Savage Minds blog, (January 14, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: Getting Started](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/11/ethnographers-as-writers-getting-started/)" Savage Minds blog (January 11, 2015)

"[A Death in the Field](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/08/a-death-in-the-field/)," Savage Minds blog (January 8, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: A light-hearted introduction to Academese](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/04/ethnographers-as-writers-a-light-hearted-introduction-to-academese/)" Savage Minds blog (January 4, 2015)

"[Ethnographers as Writers: An Introduction](http://savageminds.org/2015/01/01/ethnographers-as-writers-an-introduction/)" Savage Minds blog (January 1, 2015)

"[My Ten Steps for Writing a Book](http://savageminds.org/2014/02/24/my-ten-steps-for-writing-a-book/)" Savage Minds blog (February 24, 2014)

"[Writing a Book in Ten Steps](http://aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/writing-book-ten-steps)," ASEEES Blog, (April 14, 2014)

[The Ukraine Crisis: Rebooting Russia](http://fpif.org/ukraine-crisis-rebooting-russia/), guest post on *Foreign Policy In Focus*, Focal Points Blog, (March 10, 2014)

"[Wanted: The Academic Equivalent of the “Pretty Girl Rock”](http://theprofessorisin.com/2011/10/07/wanted-the-academic-equivalent-of-the-pretty-girl-rock/)" The Professor is In blog, (October 7, 2011)

"[Tenure Tracks and Ticking Clocks](https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/legacy/blog/tenure-tracks-and-ticking-clocks)" Women and Family Researchers Network blog, (August 22, 2011)



 

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