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Zusatztext Dan Healey's expert analysis of homophobia's history in Russia uses riveting case studies of lesbian and gay life and the law to paint a vivid picture of queerness and its persecution from the 1930s through to the Putin era. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the uphill battle for LGBTQ rights and recognition in contemporary Russia. Informationen zum Autor Dan Healey is Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Oxford! UK. He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (2001) and Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Sexual Disorder in Clinic and Courtroom! 1917-1939 (2009). He is also the editor of Soviet Medicine: Culture! Practice! Science (2010)! with F. Bernstein and C. Burton! and Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (2002)! with B. Clements and R. Friedman. Klappentext An historical exploration of Russian homophobic attitudes and their origins in the country's troubled 20th century. An historical exploration of Russian homophobic attitudes and their origins in the country’s troubled 20th century. Zusammenfassung 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 mid-20th century. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi provides a compelling background to the culture wars over the status of LGBT citizens in Russia today! whilst serving as a key text for all students of modern Russia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: 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 Stalin2. Comrades! Queers and 'Oddballs': Sodomy! Masculinity and Gendered Violence in the Leningrad Province of the 1950s3. 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 Present5. Active! Passive and Russian: The National Idea in Gay Men's Pornography6. '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 USSR8. "Non-Traditional" Lives: The Dilemmas of Queering Russian Biography9. On the Boulevards of Magadan: Historical Time! Geopolitics and Queer Memory in Homophobic RussiaSelected Further ReadingIndex ...
About the author
Dan Healey is Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of several books and articles on modern Russian history, including Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (2001) - which was designated proxime accessit for the Royal Historical Society’s 2001 Gladstone History Book Prize - and Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Sexual Disorder in Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939 (2009). He is also the editor of Soviet Medicine: Culture, Practice, Science (2010), with F. Bernstein and C. Burton, and Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (2002), with B. Clements and R. Friedman.
Professor Healey was joint Reviews Editor of Gender & History, 2004-2008, and he co-edits the H-Histsex History of Sexuality H-NET Discussion List. He also serves on the Editorial Board for Slavonic & East European Review.
