A Russian Gay Bibliography


Baer, Brian James. "The Other Russia: Re-Presenting the Gay Experience." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 1 (1): 183-94, Winter 2000.

Burgin, Diana Lewis. "Laid Out in Lavender: Perception of Lesbian Love in Russian Literature and Criticism Of the silver Age, 1893-1917." Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture. Jane T. Costlow, Stephanie Sandier, and Judith Vowles, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993: 177-203.

Burgin, Diana Lewis. "Mother Nature versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and Female Same-Sex Love." Journal of the History of Sexuality 1995, vol. 6, no. 1, 62-88.

Burgin, Diana L. Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Eisenstein, S. M. Dessins Secrets. Paris: Seuil, 1999.

Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de Siecle Russia. Ithaca: Cornell U. Pr. 1992.

Engelstein, Laura. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s," Signs, 1990, Vol. 15, No. 4.

Essig, Laurie. Queer in Russia : A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other. Chapel Hill: Duke U. Pr., 1999.

Essig, Laurie. Sex, Self, and the Other: The Production and Performance of Queer in Russia (PhD. Dissertation, Columbia, 1996).

Feiler, Lily. Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Feinstein, Elaine. A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva. New York: Dutton, 1987.

Gagnon, J. Maris. Death to Reach a Star: A Novel. Seattle: Twin Omega Press, 1993. (Fiction about gay men in Russia).

Gessen, Masha. The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men in the Russian Federation. SF: IGLHRC, 1994.

Healey, Daniel. "The Russian Revolution and the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality," Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 6, No. 1 (June, 1993), 26-54.

Healey, Daniel. "Moscow" in Queer Sites: Gay Men's Urban Histories ed. David Higgs, London: Routledge, 1999.

Herberstein, Sigismund von. Description of Moscow and Muscovy. Bertold Picard, ed., J. B. C. Grundy, trans. London: Dent, 1966.

Hinrichs, Jan Paul. Valerij Pereleshin (1913-1992). Catalogue of his Papers and Books in Leiden University Library. Leiden: Leiden University

Library, 1997. 184 pp. (=Codices manuscripti; 27).

Hopkins,William. "Lermontov's Hussar Poems." Russian Literature Triquarterly 14 (1976):36-47.

Karlinsky,Simon. Marina Tsvetaeva. The Woman, Her World and Her Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 or 1988.

Karlinsky,Simon. "Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution." Hidden from History. Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., eds. New York: New American Library, 1989: 348-364.

Karlinsky,Simon. "Russia's Gay History and Literature. (11th-20th Centuries)." Gay Sunshine 29/30 (1976): 1-7. Reprinted in Gay Roots. Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine. Winston Leyland, ed. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991:81-104.

Karlinsky,Simon. The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Paperback reissue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Klein, L. S. Drugaia liubov'. SPb: Olio Press, 2000.

Kon, Igor. "Sexual Minorities," in Igor Kon and James Riordan, Sex and Russian Society. Bloomington: Indiana U. Pr., 1993.

Kon, Igor. The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Tsars to Today, tr. James Riordan. NY: Free Press, 1995.

Kon, Igor. Lunnyj sveet na zare: Liki i maski odnopoloi liubvi. M: Olimp, 1998.

Kozlovskii, Vladimir. Argo russkoi gomoseksual'noi subku'ltury [The Slang of Russian Homosexual Subculture]. Benson, VT.: Chalidze Publications, 1986.

Kuzmin, Mikhail A. Selected Prose and Poetry, trans. Michael Green. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1980.

Kuzmin, Mikhail A. Wings: Prose and Poetry, trans. Neil Granoien & Michael Green. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1972.

Lardo, Vincent. The Prince and the Pretender. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1984. (Novel about a Russian gay prince in Manhattan).

Levin, Eve. Sex and Society in the World of Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Malmstad, John E., ed. Studies in the Life and Works of Mixail Kuzmin. Vienna: Gesellschaft zur Forderung Slawistischer Studien, 1989.

Malmstad, John. E. and Nikolay Bogomolov. Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art. Cambridge: Harvard U Pr., 1999.

Mamonova, Tatyana. Russian Women's Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture. New York: Pergamom Press, 1988.

Mielke, Tomas M. "Der homosexuelle Wortschatz im Russischen - Einvernehmliche und Lagersexualitaet zwischen Maennern" ( Russian Gay Vocabulary - Consent vs. Prison-Camp-Sexuality among Men) Kubon & Sagner publishers, Slavistische Beitraege, vol. 331 (1995).

Moss, Kevin (Editor). Out of the Blue: Russia's Hidden Gay Literature, An Anthology. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1997.

Moss, Kevin. "The Underground Closet: Political and Sexual Dissidence in Eastern Europe," in Ellen E. Berry, ed., Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic (1995), 229- 251.

Olearius, Adam. The Travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia. Samuel Baron, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.

Poznansky, Alexander. Tchaikovsky. The Quest for the Inner Man. Boston: Schirmer, 1991.

Rayfield, Donald. The Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolai Przhevalsky, Explorer of Central Asia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976.

Rozanov, Vasilii. Liudi lunnogo sveta [People of lunar light]. 2d ed. St. Petersburg: Ivan Mitiurnikov, 1913.

Shulga, Natalia. "Mashka and Asiunia." In Masha Gessen, ed., Half a Revolution: Contemporary Russian Women's Short Fiction. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1995.

Tsvetaeva, Marina. ""Letter to an Amazon," translated from the French by Sonya Franeta, in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fall 1994), pp. 9-14.

Tuller, David. Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1996.

Veispak, Teet, ed. Sexual Minorities and Society: The Changing Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Europe: Facts about Homosexuality in Soviet Russia and Current Estonia. Tallinn: Eesti Teaduse Akadeemia Ajaloo Instituut.

Zen'kovskii, Sergei. "Drug Samozvantsa, eretik i stikhotvorets. Kniaz' lvan Khvorostinin" [The Pretender's friend, heretic and poet. Prince Ivan Khvorostinin]. Opyty 6 (1956): 77-88.

Zlobin, Vladimir. A Difficult Soul. Zinaida Gippius. Simon Karlinsky, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.


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