Postdoc fellow at Pitt Uni. DPhil (Oxon). History of homosexuality, Soviet medicine, GULAG, HIV during Perestroika, archives. Football and opera fan.
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This is a photo of a couple: a Soviet electrician, Tolya, and his partner, one of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess, in Moscow. They lived together until Burgess’s death in 1963. If you want to learn more about the KGB, the Cold War and homophobia, read my new piece.
The KGB particularly targeted American scholars specialising in Slavic studies, viewing them as potential advisers to students who might later work for the White House, the CIA, or the State Department.
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KGB and same-sex entrapment during the Cold War in the USSR. Learn more from my piece based on declassified archival sources from the US and UK. Read it now, before it is transformed into a Netflix series.
direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/…
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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Irina Roldugina retweeted
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ahead of #LGBTplusHM25 in February, Dr Irina Roldugina (@BristolRuCz) introduces her @LeverhulmeTrust project which examines how open discussions of sexuality & trans experiences were in the Soviet Union during the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3EfaiZU
ALT Dr Irina Roldugina stands before a bookshelf.
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Historian Irina Roldugina and cultural theorist Katerina Suverina, coauthors of “Outbreak: The Unknown History of HIV in the USSR,” on how the HIV crisis unexpectedly united Soviet society and whether there was ever a chance to contain the virus’s spread.
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The book on the history of HIV in the USSR is out.
The first book on the history of HIV in the Soviet Union has gone to press. "The Outbreak: An Unknown History of HIV in the USSR", based on archival sources and oral interviews, recounts the story of late Soviet society grappling with a new challenge. Stay tuned.
When you organise a conference, be sure that a conference poster (highly relevant to the topic) can be framed🫡 I took the image from Grigorii Batkis, Die Sexualrevolution in Russland (Berlin: Syndikalist, 1925)
A glimpse into the National Medical Library in Kyiv. I took this photo in September 2018 while carrying out research there.
I took this photo in 2014 in Moscow. Thousands of Russians came to the streets to protest against the annexation of Crimea. I just realized it was one of the last occasions when two national flags, Russian and Ukrainian, were displayed publicly and peacefully.
It has been hard to operate and sleep since Russia has started the war. Thinking of my relatives in Kharkiv and friends in Kyiv every day. They stay in Ukraine. My life will never be the same. Never.