Spies and barbarians: The Love that Didn’t Dare Say its Name in the Soviet Union

The goal of this article is to propose the reexamination of the accounts of the supposed benevolence of the Soviet government toward masculine homosexuality from 1917 to 1934. The decriminalization of sodomy in the early years of the Revolution did not mean that masculine homosexuality was not vulne...

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Autor principal: Jesus, Diego Santos Vieira de
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/ls/article/view/18832
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/50007
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Sumario:The goal of this article is to propose the reexamination of the accounts of the supposed benevolence of the Soviet government toward masculine homosexuality from 1917 to 1934. The decriminalization of sodomy in the early years of the Revolution did not mean that masculine homosexuality was not vulnerable to persecution. The myth of “Russian innocence” helped to construct an image of heterosexuality as the natural pattern of the social fabric.