Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics

at the same time

are as complexly woven through these pieces as they are through the lives of Osipov’s fellow Russians and through our own

places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories

this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines

Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons The Politics of Aesthetics rethinksIn 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