Intro -- Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One. Theoretical Framings -- 1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty -- Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context -- 2. "In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass": Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-Century Russian Art -- 3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov's Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love -- 4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov -- 5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka's Wartime Drawings -- 6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein's Homoerotic Drawings -- 7. Moscow Conceptualism's Erotic Objects -- 8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov -- 9. A Russian Schizorevolution? Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s -- 10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva's Art -- 11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe -- 12. "My Nationaliti Is My Sexuality": The Post-Soviet, Diasporic, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov -- Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists -- 13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: The Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze -- 14. Soviet Union, July 1991 -- 15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya's Material Evidence -- 16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene -- 17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent -- 18. A Queer (Re)claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview with Slava Mogutin.

19. "Queer and Russian Art?" A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya -- 20. Queering Sexual Minorities: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks -- Back Cover.