Hearne shows in illuminating detail how urban residents, local administrators, and even the police collaborated in undermining the authority of a system that was by definition doomed to fail.
Siobhán Hearne is a historian of gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. She received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, and has since completed postdoctoral research in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. Her research has appeared in the journals Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Social History, Revolutionary Russia and The Journal of Social History(forthcoming).