Kollontai envisaged that a new morality could develop from the revolution, “a morality which helps to re-educate the personality of man enabling him to be capable of positive feeling, capable of freedom instead of being bound by a sense of property, capable of comradeship rather than inequality and submission”.
Her two novels Love of the Worker Bees and A Great Love have characters grappling with the attempts to develop such a morality.
Yet the revolution was strangled within a few years and Kollontai’s vision of transformed sexual relations was crushed.
The reintroduction of market forces brought mass unemployment to women workers and ended state funding for many of the projects the Bolsheviks had initiated. A demoralised Kollontai left Russia to be ambassador to Norway.
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