Dan Healey. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia.

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I

Same-Sex Eros in Modernizing Russia

1 – Depravity’s Artel’

TRADITIONAL SEX BETWEEN MEN AND THE EMERGENCE OF A HOMOSEXUAL SUBCULTURE

2 – “Our Circle”

SEX BETWEEN WOMEN IN MODERNIZING RUSSIA

PART II

Regulating Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia

3 – Euphemism and Discretion

POLICING SODOMITES AND TRIBADES

4 – The “Queer Subject” and the Language of Modernity

REFORMING THE LAW ON SAME-SEX LOVE BEFORE AND AFTER 1917

5 – Perversion or Perversity?

MEDICINE, POLITICS, AND THE REGULATION OF SEXUAL AND GENDER DISSENT AFTER SODOMY DECRIMINALIZATION

6 – “An Infinite Quantity of Intermediate Sexes”

THE TRANSVESTITE AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

7 – “Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?”

THE MAKING OF A SOVIET COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY

PART III

Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism

8 – “Caught Red-Handed”

MAKING HOMOSEXUALITY ANTISOCIAL IN STALIN’S COURTS

9 – Epilogue

THE TWIN CRUCIBLES OF THE GULAG AND THE CLINIC

Conclusion

Appendix

HOW MANY VICTIMS OF THE ANTISODOMY LAW?