Red_Love_(1923_novel)

<i>Red Love</i> (novel)

Red Love (novel)

1923 novel by Alexandra Kollontai


Red Love (Russian: Василиса Малыгина, Vasilisa Malygina) is a Russian novel in 1923 by Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent female Bolshevik theoretician. It was translated in 1927 into English and Japanese.[1] The novel asks deep question about the dynamics between Soviet socialism and the romantic life of Bolshevik women. It was adapted into a German film in 1982.

In his book review, Samuel Perry commented that while not "much of a page-turner, but this did not stop Red Love from becoming a bestseller throughout East Asia [the Empire of Japan and Republic of China] and North America, and becoming more than an ubiquitous epithet for a much broader debate throughout the world about the familial, sexual and affective bonds that might - could and should - evolve under the economic alternative to capitalist modernity being put into practice for the first time in the Soviet Union."[2]

In 2015, a compilation of scholar articles was published under the name Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century to commemorate the novel.[3]


References

  1. コロンタイ, 松尾四郎 (translator) (November 1927). 赤い恋 [Red Love]. 世界社. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  2. Perry, Samuel (2017). Red Love Across the Pacific (book review). The Journal of Asian Studies, 76(1), 211-212. ISBN 9781137522009.
  3. Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Ruth Barraclough , Heather Bowen-Struyk , and Paula Rabinowitz . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015



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