Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia

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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia is written by Dan Healey and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226922545 (ISBN 10) and 9780226922546 (ISBN 13).

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.