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3.0 out of 5 stars
Typical Academic work,
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This review is from: Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Hardcover)
If your a college professor or a historian looking for an honest and accurate portrayal of LGBT people in early 20th century Russia; this book is for you.The sources are cited, the I's are dotted, and the T's crossed. I spent $30 on this book which is really expensive for me. I could read it all right but it really is more or less an academic book than a typical nonfiction book. I wouldn't recommend it for leisure. Personally I found that the author focused too much on homosexuality in the pre-Revolutionary era. The background research was well done and quite extensive but there seemed to be more material on Czarist Russia than there was during the time of the Soviets and provisional government. The author spends way too much time on legal concepts and sodomy laws than he does actually explaining the life of gays and lesbians under the revolution. At its worse this is just a legal history reference to homosexuality under the Russians. At it's best this a well researched and thoughtful account into the situation of LGBT people in revolutionary Russia. |
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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent by Dan Healey (Hardcover - October 15, 2001)
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