Author(s): Dan Healey
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 309
CONTENTS......Page 8
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS......Page 19
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 21
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 22
Introduction: 2013 - Russia’s Year of Political Homophobia......Page 24
PART I - Homophobia in Russia after 1945......Page 48
1. Forging Gulag Sexualities: Penal Homosexuality and the Reform of the Gulag after Stalin......Page 50
2. Comrades, Queers, and “Oddballs”: Sodomy, Masculinity, and Gendered Violence in Leningrad Province in the 1950s......Page 74
3. The Diary of Soviet Singer Vadim Kozin: Reading Queer Subjectivity in 1950s Russia......Page 96
PART II - Queer Visibility and “Traditional Sexual Relations”......Page 114
4. From Stalinist Pariahs to Subjects of “Managed Democracy”: Queers in Moscow, 1945 to the Present......Page 116
5. Active, Passive, and Russian: The National Idea in Gay Men’s Pornography......Page 134
6. “Let Them Move to France!”: Public Homophobia and “Traditional” Sexuality in the Early Putin Years......Page 154
PART III - Writing and Remembering Russia’s Queer Past......Page 172
7. Stalinist Homophobia and the “Stunted Archive”: Challenges to Writing the History of Gay Men’s Persecution in the USSR......Page 174
8. Shame, Pride, and "Non-traditional” Lives: The Dilemmas of Queering Russian Biography......Page 200
9. On the Boulevards of Magadan: Historical Time, Geopolitics, and Queer Memory in Homophobic Russia......Page 218
NOTES......Page 234
SELECTED FURTHER READING......Page 302
INDEX......Page 304
