Abstract
This article examines the autobiography of Pavel Krotov – a Soviet man in his forties who underwent treatment for homosexuality in Gor´kii in the late 1970s. Throughout his life, Pavel was torn between two impulses – an attraction to men and a desire to act and live as a heterosexual man. Exploring the events from Krotov’s life as well as the language he used to describe them, the article seeks answers to the following questions: Is it possible to view Krotov’s case through the prism of the existing historical thinking on bisexuality? What was the meaning of Krotov’s bisexual behavior? And what was Soviet bisexuality?
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