From: Paul Gallagher <pcg-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Getty and Manning on Stalin
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:56:27 -2800 (EDT)


> 
> Getty, in Getty and Manning eds Stalinist Terror, New Perspectives,
> Cambridge 1993, page 41:
> 
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> 
> Get this book!
> 
> Chris B, London. 
>

I agree.  Lynne Viola's books are also useful.  Viola has an essay in
Stalinist Terror.  Her book, Russian Peasant Women, has some
information that might be useful to the discussion here on homosexuality.
She doesn't mention homosexuality, but she does discuss how abortion
was made illegal in 1936 due to popular opposition to what was
perceived as sexual licentiousness.  

This reflects several interesting issues: how people were empowered
in the Soviet Union during the 30's, and how people once empowered
may do things we don't approve of.



Paul



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