Alexander R. Zakrytye. Zhizn' gomoseksualov v SSSR

Author	Alexander R.
Title	Zakrytye. Zhizn' gomoseksualov v SSSR
Description	A KGB lieutenant who informed on his lovers to the security services. An enthusiastic doctor who persistently tried to “cure” homosexuality. A Scottish communist who defended homosexuals before Stalin. A Soviet “patient zero” who contracted HIV in Tanzania. The stories of all these people, who lived in the USSR, long remained in the shadows; historian Rustam Alexander sheds light on what other researchers have often left aside. The book Red Closet tells the story of the Soviet Union through the lives of people who officially did not exist in the socialist state: homosexual men who, because of the criminal article on “muzhelozhstvo”, were forced to suppress themselves or live underground, constantly risking imprisonment after a denunciation. From ordinary workers to stars of the stage, they were all trapped in a hostile environment, yet even under these unbearable conditions they searched for ways to survive and find happiness. Translated from English by Olga Bykova.
Year	2025
Publisher	Ricochet
Pages	336
Cover	Paperback
ISBN	978-601-06-9584-9

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