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Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi by Dan Healey (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101350000779
ISBN-139781350000773
eBay Product ID (ePID)221511448
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRussian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
Publication Year2017
SubjectLgbt Studies / General, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Social History, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
TypeTextbook
AuthorDan Healey
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2017-018018
Reviews"This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals." - CHOICE, Healey is a careful and imaginative historian. Each chapter deals with a different subject in gay Russian history, jumping across decades ... Russian Homophobia is rich in the kind of tantalizing, upsetting detail that makes the history of sexuality so fascinating., [The] book is highly recommended to both researchers within academia and people interested in understanding contemporary Russian society., Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi is a stunning accomplishment ... Healey shows why he is the leading historian of Soviet sexuality writing today ... Historians of the Soviet century broadly construed, historians of sexuality in other geographical fields, and general-interest readers looking for a well-researched history of the current discrimination in Russia should all find Healey's book a must-read., Dan Healey's expert analysis of homophobia's history in Russia uses riveting case studies of lesbian and gay life and the law to paint a vivid picture of queerness and its persecution from the 1930s through the Putin era. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the uphill battle for LGBTQ rights and recognition in contemporary Russia., "Healey is a careful and imaginative historian. Each chapter deals with a different subject in gay Russian history, jumping across decades ... Russian Homophobia is rich in the kind of tantalizing, upsetting detail that makes the history of sexuality so fascinating." - Los Angeles Review of Books "Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - The Russian Review "This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals." - CHOICE, "Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - The Russian Review "This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals." - CHOICE, Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike., " Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi is a stunning accomplishment ... Healey shows why he is the leading historian of Soviet sexuality writing today ... Historians of the Soviet century broadly construed, historians of sexuality in other geographical fields, and general-interest readers looking for a well-researched history of the current discrimination in Russia should all find Healey's book a must-read." - Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "[The] book is highly recommended to both researchers within academia and people interested in understanding contemporary Russian society." - H-Socialisms "This marvellous book should be recommended for all readers interested in Russian history and politics - and should be required reading for those who research and teach in those subjects." - Canadian Slavonic Papers "Healey is a careful and imaginative historian. Each chapter deals with a different subject in gay Russian history, jumping across decades ... Russian Homophobia is rich in the kind of tantalizing, upsetting detail that makes the history of sexuality so fascinating." - Los Angeles Review of Books "Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - The Russian Review "This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals." - CHOICE, This marvellous book should be recommended for all readers interested in Russian history and politics - and should be required reading for those who research and teach in those subjects., "[The] book is highly recommended to both researchers within academia and people interested in understanding contemporary Russian society." - H-Socialisms "This marvellous book should be recommended for all readers interested in Russian history and politics - and should be required reading for those who research and teach in those subjects." - Canadian Slavonic Papers "Healey is a careful and imaginative historian. Each chapter deals with a different subject in gay Russian history, jumping across decades ... Russian Homophobia is rich in the kind of tantalizing, upsetting detail that makes the history of sexuality so fascinating." - Los Angeles Review of Books "Healey's valuable book offers a timely contribution to Slavic studies and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - The Russian Review "This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals." - CHOICE, A must-read for any historian of Russian sexuality ... Highly recommended both for scholars of Russian history and queer activists who want to know more about Russia's past and present., This ambitious, well-sourced, eminently readable volume functions as a corrective to Western LGBTQ scholarship, which treats the sexual subjects of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation as outliers, and as an overview of available archival material regarding the Soviet and Russian queer experience since the mid-century. Healey (Russian history, Oxford) aims to trace the origins and consequences of "modern" Russian homophobia, which he firmly roots in the Stalinist project, in a way that distinguishes it from the critiques of the postcolonial West. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals., Poses some intriguing questions ... Healey manages to draw on a range of other original and surprising sources for this well-written history of modern Russia and human sexuality., A valuable tool for any modern historian ... The book's universal value is in its sophisticated methodology ... [Healey] dissects and analyses archival material with the theoretical and empirical knowledge at his disposal., Healey presents a nuanced and sophisticated analysis of how this homophobia has been shaped and maintained.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.76609470904
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: 2013 - Russia's Year of Political Homophobia Part I - Homophobia in Russia after 1945 1. Forging Gulag Sexualities: Penal Homosexuality and the Reform of the Gulag after Stalin 2. Comrades, Queers and 'Oddballs': Sodomy, Masculinity and Gendered Violence in the Leningrad Province of the 1950s 3. The Diary of Soviet Singer Vadim Kozin: Reading Queer Subjectivity in 1950s Russia Part II - Queer Visibility and 'Traditional Sexual Relations' 4. From Stalinist Pariahs to Subjects of 'Managed Democracy': Queers in Moscow 1945 to the Present 5. Active, Passive and Russian: The National Idea in Gay Men's Pornography 6. 'Let Them Move to France!': Public Homophobia and 'Traditional' Sexuality in the Early Putin Years Part III - Writing and Remembering Russia's Queer Past 7. Stalinist Homophobia and the 'Stunted Archive': Challenges to Writing the History of Gay Men's Persecution in the USSR 8. "Non-Traditional" Lives: The Dilemmas of Queering Russian Biography 9. On the Boulevards of Magadan: Historical Time, Geopolitics and Queer Memory in Homophobic Russia Selected Further Reading Index
SynopsisExamining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since 1991 over whether queer Russians can be valued citizens. Healey also reflects on the problems of 'memorylessness' for Russia's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement more broadly and the obstacles it faces in trying to write its own history. The book makes use of little-known source material - much of it untranslated archival documentation - to explore how Russians have viewed same-sex love and gender transgression since the mid-20th century. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi provides a compelling background to the culture wars over the status of LGBT citizens in Russia today, whilst serving as a key text for all students of modern Russia.
LC Classification NumberHQ76.45.S65
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