Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities

ISBN-13: 9780367662479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Richard C. M. Mole

Opis

Contemporary Russia and other post-Soviet states have become increasingly hostile towards the LGBT community with the introduction of laws restricting their rights and an increase in homophobic violence. This book explores how this has happened and provides a wealth of detail on this subject whilst also assessing how LGBT subjects are responding

Spis treści

1. Constructing Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities - Richard C.M. Mole 2. ‘Why Are We the People We Are?’ Early Soviet Homosexuals from the First-Person Perspective: New Sources on the History of Homosexual Identities in Russia - Ira Roldugina 3. Between the Labour Camp and the Clinic: Tema or the Shared Forms of Late Soviet Homosexual Subjectivities - Arthur Clech 4. Soviet Legal and Criminological Debates on the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality (1965-1975) - Rustam Alexander 5. A Cold War for the 21^st Century: Homosexualism vs. Heterosexualism - Laurie Essig and Alexander Kondakov 6. ‘That’s Not the Only Reason We Love Him’: Chaikovsky Reception in Post-Soviet Russia - Philip Ross Bullock 7. Identity, Belonging and Solidarity among Russian-speaking Queer Migrants in Berlin - Richard C.M. Mole 8. ‘National Anxiety’ and Homosexuality in post-Soviet Armenia: National Identity through Trauma and the Memory of Genocide and War - Sevan Beukian 9. Narratives of exclusion: observations on a youth-led LGBT rights group in Kyrgyzstan - Joanna Pares Hoare 10. Negotiating non-heteronormative identities in post-Soviet Belarus and Lithuania - Galina Miazhevich

O autorze

Richard C.M. Mole is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.