Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons Edna O'Brien has called Tolstaya

Edna O'Brien has called Tolstaya "an enchantress

telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history

carnage and the nature of war itself

at the same time

with contributions by local photographers

Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander soviet cartoons Edna O'Brien has called TolstayaIn 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