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Record Nr.

UNINA9910768451403321

Autore

Alexander Rustam

Titolo

Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 / / by Rustam Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031458705

3031458702

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 pages)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487

Disciplina

307.7662094709047

Soggetti

Women - History

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

History, Modern

Sex

Women's History / History of Gender

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Modern History

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 : Introduction -- 2 : Yan Goland and His ‘Aversion Therapy’ -- 3 : Leonid Bykov—An Autobiography -- 4 : Leonid Bykov—Diary -- 5 : Pavel Krotov—An Autobiography -- 6 : Mark Orlov—An Autobiography -- 7 : The Autobiography and Diary of Artem Smirnov -- 8 : Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. The examination of these unique and little known documents contributes to our scant knowledge about the practices that many would call a Soviet proto-type of 'aversion therapy'.



It also helps us understand the way homosexual people faced "queer dilemmas" of the self and how they sought to reconcile their queer desire with being Soviet. Rustam Alexander is a historian, specializing in Russia and the USSR, who received his PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR (2023) and Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A Different History (2021). His work on the history of Soviet homosexuality has been publishedin Slavic Review, Russian History, Europe-Asia Studies and other academic journals.