@article{1484502,
      recid = {1484502},
      author = {Alexander, Rustam,},
      title = {Gay lives and 'aversion therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia,  1964-1982 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 170 pages).},
      abstract = {This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of  Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during  the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan  Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The  examination of these unique and little known documents  contributes to our scant knowledge about the practices that  many would call a Soviet proto-type of 'aversion therapy'.  It also helps us understand the way homosexual people faced  "queer dilemmas" of the self and how they sought to  reconcile their queer desire with being Soviet. Rustam  Alexander is a historian, specializing in Russia and the  USSR, who received his PhD from the University of  Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Red Closet: The  Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR (2023) and  Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A  Different History (2021). His work on the history of Soviet  homosexuality has been published in Slavic Review, Russian  History, Europe-Asia Studies and other academic journals.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484502},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45870-5},
}