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Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91 : a different history / Rustam Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Rustam, author.
- Series:
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--Soviet Union.
- Homosexuality.
- Gays--Legal status, laws, etc--Soviet Union.
- Gays.
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- Drawing on fresh and previously undiscovered sources, this book fills an important gap. It reveals that from 1956 to 1991 doctors, educators, jurists and police officers discussed the issue of homosexuality. At the heart of their discussions were questions which directly affected the lives of homosexual people in the USSR. Was homosexuality a crime, disease or a normal variant of human sexuality? Should lesbianism be criminalised? Could proper sex education prevent homosexuality? What role did the GULAG and prisons play in spreading homosexuality across the USSR? Far from being abstract questions, these discussions often had practical implications - doctors designed and offered medical treatments for homosexuality in hospitals, while prison workers used these treatments in prisons.
- Contents:
- Homosexuality in the Soviet GULAG (1956-59)
- Same-sex desire and sex education under Khrushchev (1956-64)
- From sodomy to homosexuality : same-sex desire and the rise of Soviet sexopathology in the 1960s
- Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (1959-75)
- Between disease and crime : sexopathology and prison homosexuality (1970-80).
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Feb 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781526166579
- 1526166577
- 9781526155757
- 1526155753
- 9781526155771
- 152615577X
- OCLC:
- 1253132065
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