Author : Dan Healey
Release : 2012-04-26
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 545/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia by : Dan Healey
Download or read book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia written by Dan Healey. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 attitude of the late Tsarist regime and revolutionary rulers toward gay men and lesbians. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia reveals a world of ordinary Russians who lived extraordinary lives and records the voices of a long-silenced minority.