Russian homophobia from Stalin to Sochi / Dan Healey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Healey, Dan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homophobia--Soviet Union--History.

Homophobia.

Homosexuality--Soviet Union--History.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"Examining nine "case histories" that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since 1991 over whether queer Russians can be valued citizens. Healey also reflects on the problems of "memorylessness" for Russia's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement more broadly and the obstacles it faces in trying to write its own history. The book makes use of little-known source material -- much of it untranslated archival documentation -- to explore how Russians have viewed same-sex love and gender transgression since the mid20th century. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi provides a compelling background to the culture wars over the status of gay citizens in Russia today, whilst serving as a key text for all students of Russian social history over the last hundred years."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: 2013 - Russia's Year of Political Homophobia

Part I - Homophobia in Russia after 1945: 1. Forging Gulag Sexualities: Penal Homosexuality and the Reform of the Gulag after Stalin ; 2. Comrades, Queers and 'Oddballs': Sodomy, Masculinity and Gendered Violence in the Leningrad Province of the 1950s ; 3. The Diary of Soviet Singer Vadim Kozin: Reading Queer Subjectivity in 1950s Russia

Part II - Queer Visibility and 'Traditional Sexual Relations': 4. From Stalinist Pariahs to Subjects of 'Managed Democracy': Queers in Moscow 1945 to the Present ; 5. Active, Passive and Russian: The National Idea in Gay Men's Pornography ; 6. 'Let Them Move to France!': Public Homophobia and 'Traditional' Sexuality in the Early Putin Years

Part III - Writing and Remembering Russia's Queer Past: 7. Stalinist Homophobia and the 'Stunted Archive': Challenges to Writing the History of Gay Men's Persecution in the USSR ; 8. "Non-Traditional" Lives: The Dilemmas of Queering Russian Biography ; 9. On the Boulevards of Magadan: Historical Time, Geopolitics and Queer Memory in Homophobic Russia

Selected Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350000810

1350000817

9781350003620

135000362X

9781350000797

1350000795

OCLC:

1005701515