Abstract:
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.
Keywords: Russia. Soviet Union.
Homosexuality. State.
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