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The research published in the current issue, which is mostly based on hitherto unused historical sources, includes a diary by the Latvian film director Gunārs Piesis (by Jānis Ozoliņš), as well as the advanced research of an already known diary by an employee of the Soviet People’s Court Kaspars Aleksandrs Irbe (1906–1996) (by Andrei Vazyanau). The...
In the territories of the Russian Empire populated by the Latvians, the years of the First World War (1914–1918) and the ensuing Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) witnessed a significant transformation in the discourse on family planning and birth control. Because men were mobilized, there was a marked fall in the number of registered marriag...
Izmantojot biogrāfisko pieeju, rakstā tiks parādīta valsts sankcionētā vardarbība pret sievietēm 1905.–1907. gada revolūcijā. Matildes Krēgeres (1880–?) un Emmas Rigertes, dz. Lietuvietes, (1879–?) stāsti ir pagaidām vienīgie zināmie detalizēti vēstītie sieviešu pieredzes gadījumi. Abu pierakstīšanu veicināja biedrības “Piektais gads” 1926. gada ai...
The article focuses on male same-sex subculture in public space in Riga during the Second World War and late Stalinism. It analyses the performance of same-sex desire through which the public space was appropriated for male same-sex purposes. The article argues that during the period under discussion, same-sex loving men, who socialised in Riga, pe...
Through the case study of the publishing and banning of the second edi- tion of the book Mīlestības vārdā (1982, In the Name of Love) by the Latvian physician Jānis Zālītis (1933–2007), the article aims to analyse the changed understanding among medical educators and officials of the Latvian Communist Party on limits of what could be promoted in a...
In the Soviet period, the incidence of venereal diseases (VDs)2 was ideologically interpreted by authorities as a deficiency inherent in capi- talist countries. It was stated that VDs would be eliminated in the Soviet Union at the earliest possible date. Compared to the independent Republic of Latvia (1918–1940), during the Soviet period, despite a...
This is the first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region among other countries in Central and East Europe. It unites work by researchers of different European countries that deals with various representations of the queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years. A...
The social history of coresidence arrangements in the Latvian region suggests that forms of cohabitation without marriage were present in the Latvian population since the eighteenth century when empirical evidence became available. Before the twentieth century, however, these forms remained marginal and seldom involved choice. The subject of severe...
