Remonstrative, Too Remonstrative, or the Birth of the Soviet Majoritarian Solidarity out of the Embodiment of Affection

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  • Ирина Жеребкина
Keywords: the first wave of feminism in the USSR as theory and practice of radical democracy, the second wave of the late Soviet/post-Soviet feminism as theory and practice of liberal democracy, the ontology of the individuality, the ontology of the multitudes, the situation of choice or the ‘Kantian question’ of the post-Soviet feminism of the beginning of the 2nd decade of the 21st century (‘What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for?’)

Abstract

[In Russian]

The article is dedicated to the major paradox of the emergence
of the post-Soviet feminism. This paradox consists of the
fact that, on the one hand, the post-Soviet feminism is based on
the Soviet feminism of the 1970s that emerged under the conditions
of totalitarianism and was grounded on the logic of radical
democracy and the corresponding to it radical ontology of the
multitudes – the multitude of the unofficial culture of the underground,
the multitude of the dissident communities, the multitude
of the forbidden in the USSR religious communities etc. On
the other hand, being formed as the second wave of feminism in
1989-1991, it consciously started to draw on the ontology of the
individuality and universal values of rather liberal than radical democracy.
The main aim of the article is to prove that while analyzing
the post-Soviet feminism one has to take into account the
paradox of its structural duality, that is, not only the liberal-democratic
ontology of the individuality, but also the radical democratic
ontology of the multitudes. It is only in this case that the
post-Soviet feminism could overcome the ontological deadlock of
political passivity, in which it finds itself today, at the beginning of
the second decade of the 21st century.

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Published
2020-01-16
How to Cite
Жеребкина, И. (2020). Remonstrative, Too Remonstrative, or the Birth of the Soviet Majoritarian Solidarity out of the Embodiment of Affection. Topos, (3), 146-183. Retrieved from http://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/article/view/592