Sexual revolution in Bolshevik Russia
By: Gregory Carleton.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Sex customs -- Soviet Union -- History; Communism and sex -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Social life and customs; Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
Description: "Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia offers a comprehensive literary and cultural history of sex and society in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. The Bolshevik Revolution promised a total transformation of Russian society, down to its most intimate details. But in the years immediately following 1917, it was by no means clear how this would come about. Sex and sexuality became a crucial battleground for debates about the Soviet future, and literature emerged as a primary domain through which sex could be imagined and discussed." "Drawing on an uncommonly varied body of sources, including novels, journals, diaries, sociological research, public health brochures, surveys, and party documents - many examined here for the first time in English - Gregory Carleton reveals the dramatic, bizarre, and intriguing ways the sexual revolution was discussed and represented. Amidst this chaos, he discerns a historical process of codification and reaction, leading ultimately to the quelling of debate in the 1930s through the harsh dictates of Stalinism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: A revolution comes of age; title: Fashioning a code; title: Confusion and backlash; title: Annus horribilis; title: Life versus literature; title: A canon of ambiguity; title: Sex and the revolution.