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Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A different history

Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A different history

This book examines the way homosexuality snaked through expert discourse in Soviet courts, prisons, science and education, helping us understand the history of sexuality in Russia and the USSR.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Homosexuality in the Soviet GULAG (1956–59)

Chapter 2. Same-sex desire and sex education under Khrushchev (1956–64)

Chapter 3. From sodomy to homosexuality: same-sex desire and the rise of Soviet sexopathology in the 1960s

Chapter 4. Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (1959–75)

Chapter 5. Between disease and crime: sexopathology and prison homosexuality (1970–80)

Conclusion

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