This book attempts to draw connections, at times contradictory and counterintuitive, between two marginal communities in Soviet-era Moscow Jews and gays in order to reflect on the (dis)similarities of their oppression, identity, self-irony, and practices (or hypothetical practices) of solidarity. This imagined dictionary for Soviet Jewish-Soviet Gay communication is a project that resists oversimplification, forced universality, and the erasure of difference when it comes to the Soviet experience and the Soviet subject.
An artist’s edition and trilingual (English/Russian/Yiddish) phrasebook.

Format: Small paperback
Published: USA, 2016
Publisher: Cicada Press
Pages: 126
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780991042036
ISBN 10: 0991042034