Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR

by Rustam Alexander

In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a na ve Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and a homosexual theatre student who came to Moscow in pursuit of a career amid Stalin's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152616745X
• ISBN13: 9781526167453
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"