The Sexual Revolution in Russia (pamphlet)

The Sexual Revolution in Russia (German: Die Sexualrevolution in Russland; 1923) was a four-page pamphlet written by Grigorii Batkis, director of the Moscow Institute for Social Hygiene.

For other uses, see The Sexual Revolution in Russia.

Re-printed in the German language in 1925 and aimed at a non-Soviet readership,[lower-alpha 1] the leaflet said that Soviet law post-1917 regarded homosexuality and gay sexual practices to be part of normal human sexual behaviour, and did not regard them as a crime.[2][3] It said that all matters of sexual intercourse were private matters, not those of the state.[4] The pamphlet was later reproduced in Beiträge zum Sexualproblem, published by Felix A. Theilhaber.[5][6]

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Notes
  1. The Russian edition is said to have been published in 1923, and the German re-printed in 1925. However, no copy of the original is known to exist.[1]

References
  1. Dynes, Wayne R.; Donaldson, Stephen (1992). History of Homosexuality in Europe and America. Taylor & Francis. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8153-0550-7.
  2. Healey, Dan (15 October 2001). Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-226-32233-9.
  3. Dollimore, Jonathan (19 September 2018). Sexual Dissidence. Oxford University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-19-256191-6.
  4. Wolf, Sherry (15 January 2017). Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. Haymarket Books. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-60846-076-2.
  5. Solomon, Susan Gross (2014). "Soviet Social Hygienists and Sexology after the Revolution: Dynamics of 'Capture' at Home and Abroad". Ab Imperio. 2014 (4): 107–135. doi:10.1353/imp.2014.0118. ISSN 2164-9731. S2CID 72670505.
  6. Sigusch, Volkmar; Grau, Günter (14 September 2009). Personenlexikon der Sexualforschung (in German). Campus Verlag. p. 35. ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9.


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