Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
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 Homosecual 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 Secual 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 Compulsiry Heterosexuality
PART III - Homosexual Existence and Existing Socialism
8. "Caught Red-Handed"
Making Homosexuality Antisocial in Stalin’s Courts
Epilogue
The Twin Crucibles of the Culag and the Clinic
Conclusion
Appendix
How Many Victims of the Antisodomy Law?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Royal Historical Society: Gladstone History Book Prize
Honorable Mention
History: European History
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Political Science: Comparative Politics
Sociology: Sociology--Marriage and Family
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