Gay Life in the Former USSR

Gay Life in the Former USSR
Author: Daniel Schluter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138991866

This work describes and analyzes the individual identities, social-ecological "landscape", and group undertakings among the homosexual population of the Soviet Union during the final years of the communist regime.

Gay Life in the Former USSR

Gay Life in the Former USSR
Author: Daniel Schluter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317726146

This work describes and analyzes the individual identities, social-ecological "landscape", and group undertakings among the homosexual population of the Soviet Union during the final years of the communist regime.

Gay Life in the Former USSR

Gay Life in the Former USSR
Author: Daniel Schluter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317726138

This work describes and analyzes the individual identities, social-ecological "landscape", and group undertakings among the homosexual population of the Soviet Union during the final years of the communist regime.

Roosevelt's Lost Alliances

Roosevelt's Lost Alliances
Author: Frank Costigliola
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2013-02-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691157928

This study brings to light key overlooked documents, such as the Yalta diary of Roosevelt's daughter Anna; the intimate letters of Roosevelt's de facto chief of staff, Missy LeHand; and the wiretap transcripts of estranged advisor Harry Hopkins. The book lays out a new approach to foreign relations history.

Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91

Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91
Author: Rustam Alexander
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526155753

This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1956–82) have remained obscure and unexplored from this perspective. Drawing on previously undiscovered sources, Alexander fills in this critical gap. The book reveals that from 1956 to 1991, doctors, educators, jurists and police officers discussed homosexuality. At the heart of discussions were questions which directly affected the lives of homosexual people in the USSR. Was homosexuality a crime, disease or a normal variant of human sexuality? Should lesbianism be criminalised? Could sex education prevent homosexuality? What role did the GULAG and prisons play in homosexuality across the USSR? These discussions often had practical implications – doctors designed and offered medical treatments for homosexuality in hospitals, and procedures and medications were also used in prisons.

The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics
Author: Michael J. Bosia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190673761

Struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities are ongoing, urgent concerns across the world. For students, scholars, and activists who work on these and related issues, this handbook provides a unique, interdisciplinary resource. In chapters by both emerging and senior scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics introduces key concepts in LGBT political studies and queer theory. Additionally, the handbook offers historical, geographic, and topical case studies contexualized within theoretical frameworks from the sociology of sexualities, critical race studies, postcolonialism, indigenous theories, social movement theory, and international relations theory. It provides readers with up-to-date empirical material and critical assessments of the analytical significance, commonalities, and differences of global LGBT politics. The forward-looking analysis of state practice, transnational networks, and historical context presents crucial perspectives and opens new avenues for debate, dialogue, and theory.

Queer in Russia

Queer in Russia
Author: Laurie Essig
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822323464

After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analyzing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay community or even gay identity before "perestroika." 9 photos.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities

Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities
Author: Richard C.M. Mole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317224914

Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have become increasingly hostile, with the introduction of laws restricting their rights and an increase in homophobic violence. This book explores how this situation has come about. It discusses how meanings attached to non-heteronormative sexualities have been constructed for specific socio-political purposes by elites in line with Marxist-Leninist or nationalist thought, explores how attitudes to non-normative sexualities developed historically and examines the current situation in the post-Soviet space, including Russia, Transcaucasia, Central Asia and the Baltic States. The book provides a wealth of detail on this understudied subject and assesses how LGBT subjects are responding to this state of affairs.

Cracks in the Iron Closet

Cracks in the Iron Closet
Author: David Tuller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1997-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226815688

David Tuller provides the first look into the emotional and sexual lives of Russian lesbians and gays and the pervasive influence of the state on gay life. Part travelogue, part social history, and part journalistic inquiry, the book challenges our assumptions about what it means to be gay. The book also explores key issues in Russia and Soviet life, including concepts of friendship, community, gender, love, fate, and the relationship between the public and private spheres. "Tuller's observant reporting and personal experiences make for absorbing reading: the human comedy rendered in unexpected ways."—New Yorker "Anyone who thinks San Francisco is the world capital of sexual polymorphism should read this book."—Adam Goodheart, Washington Post "[This book is] is profoundly moving."—Jim Van Buskirk, San Francisco Chronicle