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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent - Book Review
Journal of Social History, Summer, 2003 by Jeffrey Merrick
The 1934 law was revoked in 1993 not because gay and lesbian activists demanded it but because Boris Yeltsin, in this as in other ways, wanted to identify himself as a reformer and distance himself from his predecessors in the Kremlin. That principled or political move confirms Healey's contention that sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular are not marginal subjects in Russia today or yesterday.
They are no less connected with the mainstream of history than the present is with the past, in that country and in this one as well.
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