Sex In The Soviet Union
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Behind the Iron Curtain, where the state controlled every aspect of public life, the most intimate sphere of human existence — sexuality — became an arena of repression, propaganda, and quiet resistance. Sex in the Soviet Union, written by the father-and-son medical duo Dr. Mikhail Stern and Dr. August Stern, presents a groundbreaking sociological and medical examination of sexual attitudes, behaviour, and policy within the USSR, translated from the French by Marc E. Heine and brought to a Western audience through W. H. Allen in 1981. Drawing on Dr. Mikhail Stern's direct experience as a practising physician in Soviet Ukraine — including his own politically motivated arrest and imprisonment — this work chronicles the chilling intersection of ideology and intimacy under Communist rule. It uncovers how the Soviet regime weaponised sexual morality, suppressed sex education, and pathologised anything deemed deviant from the prescribed socialist ideal. A work of both personal testimony and rigorous social inquiry, it raises a haunting question: in a society that claimed to have liberated humanity, who truly had dominion over the human body?
Author: Dr Mikhail Stern And Dr August Stern
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, W. H. Allen, London (A Howard & Wyndham Company)
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Behind the Iron Curtain, where the state controlled every aspect of public life, the most intimate sphere of human existence — sexuality — became an arena of repression, propaganda, and quiet resistance. Sex in the Soviet Union, written by the father-and-son medical duo Dr. Mikhail Stern and Dr. August Stern, presents a groundbreaking sociological and medical examination of sexual attitudes, behaviour, and policy within the USSR, translated from the French by Marc E. Heine and brought to a Western audience through W. H. Allen in 1981. Drawing on Dr. Mikhail Stern's direct experience as a practising physician in Soviet Ukraine — including his own politically motivated arrest and imprisonment — this work chronicles the chilling intersection of ideology and intimacy under Communist rule. It uncovers how the Soviet regime weaponised sexual morality, suppressed sex education, and pathologised anything deemed deviant from the prescribed socialist ideal. A work of both personal testimony and rigorous social inquiry, it raises a haunting question: in a society that claimed to have liberated humanity, who truly had dominion over the human body?