Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
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The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Using records and archives available to researchers only since the fall of Communism, Dan Healey revisits the rich homosexual subcultures of St. Petersburg and Moscow, illustrating the ambiguous attitude of the late Tsarist regime and revolutionary rulers toward gay men and lesbians. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia reveals a world of ordinary Russians who lived extraordinary lives and records the voices of a long-silenced minority.
List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1Pt. ISame-Sex Eros in Modernizing Russia1Depravity's Artel': Traditional Sex Between Men and the Emergence of a Homosexual Subculture212"Our Circle": Sex Between Women in Modernizing Russia50Pt. IIRegulating Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia3Euphemism and Discretion: Policing Sodomites and Tribades774The "Queer Subject" and the Language of Modernity: Reforming the Law on Same-Sex Love Before and After 19171005Perversion or Perversity?: Medicine, Politics, and the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent After Sodomy Decriminalization1266"An Infinite Quantity of Intermediate Sexes": The Transvestite and the Cultural Revolution1527"Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?": The Making of a Soviet Compulsory Heterosexuality181Pt. IIIHomosexual Existence and Existing Socialism8"Caught Red-Handed": Making Homosexuality Antisocial in Stalin's Courts2079Epilogue: The Twin Crucibles of the Gulag and the Clinic229Conclusion251AppHow Many Victims of the Antisodomy Law?259Notes265Bibliography353Index375