Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

by Dan Healey

Book Overview

The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Using records and archives available to researchers only since the fall of Communism, Dan Healey revisits the rich homosexual subcultures of St. Petersburg and Moscow, illustrating the ambiguous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226322343
• ISBN13: 9780226322346
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"