Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee (born April 26, 1970) is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania...

Better Sex Under Socialism is a 2018 book by anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee. In the book, Ghodsee argues that socialism creates a fairer and better society...

some secret affection for the Soviet Union." Stated more simply by Kristen Ghodsee and Scott Sehon, "the anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that you...

Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. According to anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the victims of communism narrative, or...

neoliberal focuses may even undermine the basic elements of democracy. Kristen Ghodsee, ethnographer at the University of Pennsylvania, asserts that the triumphalist...

(surviving on less than $4 a day), by 1993-1995, it was 50%. According to Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein, a significant body of scholarship demonstrates...

utopianism" produced "post-revolutionary disenchantment". According to Kristen R. Ghodsee, a researcher on post-communist Eastern Europe: "Only by examining...

of the population suffered severe economic hardship. According to Kristen Ghodsee, a researcher on post-communist Eastern Europe: Only by examining how...

the UN, as Bulgarian women had done during the UN Decade for Women. Kristen Ghodsee, a prominent scholar on the history of Bulgarian feminism, argued that...

in, even though I attracted its author's ire. American ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee said that the sexual life of women under Socialism was, in fact, richer...