자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016935951

International Standard Book Number  

9798380370592

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

305

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Ter-Grigoryan, Svetlana.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The Ohio State University., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(308 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Hoffmann, David;Breyfogle, Nicholas.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2023.

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This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약For most of Soviet history, sex and sexuality were forbidden topics. The official state position was that sex was primarily a means to an end: the conception of future Soviet generations. The state enforced this hushed tenet by restricting discourses on sex in film, the press, and medical journals. However, Gorbachev's glasnost ("openness") policy relaxed censorship and allowed Soviet people to explore the role of sex in society openly. Between 1986 and 1991, the USSR saw an unprecedented explosion of public discussions on sex and sexuality among journalists, filmmakers, medical clinicians, policy makers, activists, and others interested in the topic. Soviet researchers unearthed realities that the state had attempted to conceal, such as rampant prostitution, sexually transmitted disease (STDs), and high rates of sexual violence.This dissertation argues that a sexual revolution took place in the USSR between 1986 and 1991, due in large part to glasnost. The sexual revolution was mainly a discursive one, in which glasnost allowed journalists, artists, filmmakers, writers, academics, activists, and medical clinicians to publicly debate the terms of sexual citizenship through artistic depictions, medical and sociological studies, legislative decisions, news discourse, and independent publishing. However, the Soviet sexual revolution also brought about discernable changes in sexual behaviors and identities. Some people began to see sexual freedom as a vital aspect of a wider social and political liberation within Soviet society. And when they could not reconcile sexual liberation with the Soviet system, these people began to envision alternatives. Thus, my dissertation explores the Soviet sexual revolution and evaluates its form and function.I show throughout this project that sexual liberation and gender equality could not be achieved within the confines of the Soviet system. As many people, especially LGBT+ activists, came to believe (and express), liberation required scrapping the system entirely rather than continuing reform efforts. There continued to be official efforts to suppress sexual liberation and gender equality through state initiatives to limit abortion, tighten restrictions on pornography and erotica, crackdowns on the LGBT+ community in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and renewed efforts to inculcate youth into the conjugal, reproductive sphere. All these state initiatives convinced many reform-minded individuals that the Soviet system's moralistic position on sexuality could not be reformed. As this dissertation shows, official Soviet reform never sought to dismantle the sexual-moral matrix that was established under Stalinism, and those who attempted to change the system met with constant roadblocks.

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Gender studies.

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Russian history.

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European history.

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LGBTQ studies.

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Sexuality.

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Soviet Union

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Soviet history

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Perestroika

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Glasnost

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Forbidden topics

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The Ohio State University History

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03B.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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