Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR. -- .
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. -- .
Based on newly discovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LGBTQ people in the USSR. -- .
This is the first book to chronicle the history of AIDS in Soviet Russia, detailing the government’s denial of the epidemic, its cynical disinformation campaigns, and the human cost of its indifference. -- .
This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky.