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

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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.