Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939 by Dan Healey

Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939

Dan Healey

260 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctors—most of whom had been trained under the tsarist regime—new authority over issues of sexuality. Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine coul...

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