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Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi

Autor Professor Dan Healey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2017
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 Sochiprovides 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350000773
ISBN-10: 1350000779
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 18 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Connects Russian homophobia to wider issues relating to the history of memory and LGBT rights that are of great value to students

Notă biografică

Dan Healeyis Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author ofHomosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent(2001) andBolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Sexual Disorder in Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939(2009). He is also the editor ofSoviet Medicine: Culture, Practice, Science(2010), with F. Bernstein and C. Burton, andRussian Masculinities in History and Culture(2002), with B. Clements and R. Friedman.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: 2013 - Russia's Year of Political HomophobiaPart I - Homophobia in Russia after 19451. 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 RussiaPart 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 YearsPart III - Writing and Remembering Russia's Queer Past7. 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

Recenzii

Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochiis a stunning accomplishment . Healey shows why he is the leading historian of Soviet sexuality writing today . Historians of the Soviet century broadly construed, historians of sexuality in other geographical fields, and general-interest readers looking for a well-researched history of the current discrimination in Russia should all find Healey's book a must-read.
[The] book is highly recommended to both researchers within academia and people interested in understanding contemporary Russian society.
This marvellous book should be recommended for all readers interested in Russian history and politics - and should be required reading for those who research and teach in those subjects.
Healey is a careful and imaginative historian. Each chapter deals with a different subject in gay Russian history, jumping across decades .Russian Homophobiais rich in the kind of tantalizing, upsetting detail that makes the history of sexuality so fascinating.
Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike.
Healey presents a nuanced and sophisticated analysis of how this homophobia has been shaped and maintained.
A thorough, impeccably researched portrait of persecution.
Poses some intriguing questions ... Healey manages to draw on a range of other original and surprising sources for this well-written history of modern Russia and human sexuality.
A must-read for any historian of Russian sexuality ... Highly recommended both for scholars of Russian history and queer activists who want to know more about Russia's past and present.
A valuable tool for any modern historian ... The book's universal value is in its sophisticated methodology ... [Healey] dissects and analyses archival material with the theoretical and empirical knowledge at his disposal.
This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals.
In this meticulously researched and highly readable book, Healey draws on a lifetime of ground-breaking research on homosexuality in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia to trace the roots of Russia's antipathy towards sexual deviance from the anti-homosexual politics of Stalin to the politicisation of homophobia and 'gay propaganda' under Vladimir Putin. A fascinating insight into sexual politics in Russia.
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.