[BEST OF] Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism w/ Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee

Rev Left Radio · Apr 8, 2022 · 1h 22m

[Originally released Jan 2018]

Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; known primarily for her ethnographic work on post-communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.

She is the author of many books, including her latest "Red Hangover:Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism.

Kristen joins Brett to discuss the collapse of Soviet Communism and the human costs of the brutal transition to free market capitalism.

Topics Include: Women under communism, the fall…