Women — Soviet Union — Political activity.

Women and the world in the 1980s: March 26, 1982

Blanche Cook interviews Cathy Porter about her book “Alexandra Kollontai: a biography,” about Kollontai (1872-1952), a female Russian Communist revolutionary who fought for workers and women’s rights. Music ends abruptly at red leader.

August 24, 2025

Five sisters : women against the Czar / produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helens Schiff. (Part 2 of 2)

Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Czarist anarchist women from the populist (and armen) movement of the between 1870’s and 1880’s in Czarist Russia. Readings and interviews with translators and editors Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal. Book entitled Women Against the Czar. Includes music. Produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff. Technical…

August 24, 2025

The Velvet Sledgehammer: August 24, 1983 (Part 1 only)

Production reel for the June 1, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Carole Seskin of the Avalon Nurses Registry about childcare options and day care services for working mothers. Eileen Zalisk interviews with Zora Zarubina (b. 1920), Professor of English and member of the Soviet…

August 24, 2025

Five sisters : women against the Tsar / produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff.

Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870’s and 1880’s in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book “Five sisters: women against the Tsar” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975). The “five sisters” are Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Olga…

August 24, 2025

3 Soviet women in the United States / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

Ada Ivanova, Khudjuma Shukurova, and Lubov Viciasova, three Soviet women touring the United States, discuss their involvment with Women’s Strike for Peace..

August 24, 2025