Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons Reading between the lines of

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carnage and the nature of war itself

with contributions by local photographers

telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history

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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons Reading between the lines ofIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a nave Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and a homosexual theatre student who came to Moscow in pursuit of a career amid Stalin's