Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities
Richard C.M. Mole (ed.). Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities (Routledge, 2019) Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have become increasingly hostile, with the introduction of laws restricting their rights and an increase in homophobic...