A KGB lieutenant who turned in his lovers to the secret service. An enthusiastic doctor who persistently tried to 'cure' homosexuality. A Scottish communist who spoke out against homosexuality to Stalin. A Soviet 'patient zero' who contracted HIV in Tanzania. The stories of all these people who lived in the USSR were long overlooked—historian Rustam Alexander sheds light on what other researchers have ignored. The book 'Closed' tells the story of the Soviet Union through the lives of people who officially did not exist in the socialist state: homosexuals forced by the article on 'sodomy' to suppress themselves or live underground, risking imprisonment for denunciation.

Author: Rustam Alexander
Publishing House: Individuum
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 336
Cover type: Paperback
Translator: Olga Bykova
Age group: 18+