Abstract
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
Highlights
Dan Healey’s work, Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi offers an extensive historical analysis of state and public homophobia in Russia
Part 1, titled ‘Homophobia in Russia after 1945’, is dedicated to the lives and experiences of gay men following the criminalisation of homosexuality in 1993
The second part, titled ‘Queer Visibility and Traditional Sexual Relations’, focuses on post-Soviet times, when neoliberally-informed political and socio-economic changes allowed for the growing visibility of LGBT community
Summary
Part 1, titled ‘Homophobia in Russia after 1945’, is dedicated to the lives and experiences of gay men following the criminalisation of homosexuality in 1993. Drawing on police investigative files, the text explores public attitudes towards same-sex relations (gay men in particular) in provincial Soviet Russia. It introduces the reader to a captivating and tragic personal story of the victims of political homophobia by drawing on personal diaries.
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