Soldados invisíveis: a participação da mulher na revolução russa como dimensão dialética para as discussões feministas nas relações internacionais

Abstract

This work aims to address the struggle of Russian women during the Revolution of 1917, highlighting their role and their revolutionary demands. Thus, it becomes explicit how the revolutionaries can be used as an effective dialectical reference to the International Relations’ approach. Through focusing on the similarity of the circumstances to which revolutionary women were submitted during the establishment of the new regime, it is possible to compare the arbitrariness of a traditionalist political class, mainly composed by men, to the blatant negligence for causes regarding feminism in the more conservative approaches of IR. Also, it seeks to illustrate the lack of range for a discussion between those who demonstrate a skeptical alignment towards progressive measures and feminists. The feminists' main goal was, and it still is, to structure social transformation, in order to give women a voice and prevent the great misconceptions that end up denying their demands. Therefore, in order to achieve the research’s goal, this work was constructed by a descriptive-historical and comparative analysis. In this sense, it is mainly based on feminist works about the Russian Revolution, resorting to primary and secondary sources (bibliographical) to build the research. In this way, it shows that the roots of an oppressive perspective are capable of silencing women in their academic manifestations and historical influence, even if they participate in a latent contribution to social studies such as the Russian Revolution. In this manner, it analyses the importance of a new perspective to be assembled in order to develop and guarantee not only the rights of women but also to promote a more inclusive and multiple prospects of social dynamics in the contemporary world. Finally, it is hoped that this work will denounce the silencing of women in the international system and its total incapacity to overcome the glaring catastrophic results without a complete epistemological renovation that seeks to be an appreciation of the female voice and its constant skirmish for a bright and clear future that recognizes their demands, which accumulate day after day.