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To give the reader some idea of the range of the Bolshevik literature covered in the book: Carleton touches on the poetry of Sergei Esenin. Drama receives some mention with The Test (1929), Proba. Novellas covered: “Moon on the Right” (1926), “Luna s pravoi storony.” “No Land in Sight” (1926), “Bez beregov.” Treatises: Where Youth Should Direct Their Sexual Energy (1926), Kuda dolzhna napravliat’sia polovaia energiia molodezhi Meshchanstvo; What is Necessary to Know About Sex (1927); “Ethics, Byte and Youth” (1927); Etika, byte i molodezh; Sexual; Depravity on Trial (1927), a fictional scripted court case, Sud nad polovoi raspushchennost’iu; Sexual Crimes (1928), Polovye prestupleniia; About Femininity (1925), O zhenstvennosti; Is Femininity Necessary? (1924), Nuzhna li zhenstvennost; Youth Through Diaries and Autobiographical Notes (1928) Iunost. Po dnevnikam I avtobiograficheskim zapisiam; “Society’s Detritus Before the Soviet Courts” (1926), Bytovye perezhitki pered litsom sovetskogo suda. Novels covered: Chocolate (1922), Shokolad; Love of the Worker Bees (1923), Liubov’ pchel trudpvykh; Aftergrowth (1924), Atava: povesti i rasskazy; Drunken Sun (1927), P’ianoe solntse; Cement (1924); Relics (1925), Moshchi; Dog Alley (1926), Sobachii pereulok; The Diary of Kostia Riabtsev (1926), Dnevnik Kosti Riabtseva; Katia Dolga (1926); Natalia Tarpova (1927); In Protochny Alley (1927), V Protchnom pereulke; The Apostate (1927), Otstupnik; First Girl (1928), Pervaia devushka; On the Road (1929), V doroge; By the Lamplight (1929), U fonaria; Natka Michurina (1929); A Woman (1929), Zhenshchina; Shadows of the One Ahead (1929), Teni stoiashchego; Birth of a Hero (1930), Rozhdenie geroia; and Comrade Kisliakov (1930), Tovarishch Kisliakov. Short stories covered: “Ivan and Maria” (1921); “Ivan-da-Mar’ia;” “The Volga Brotherhood” (1925), “Druz’ia po Volg;,” “Without a Cherry Blossom” (1926), “Bez cheremukhi;” “The Trial of a Pioneer” (1927); “Morning Dew” (1930); “The Case of A Corpse” (1926),”Delo o trupe;” and “Abortion”(1927), “Abort.”
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Wanless-Sobel, C. Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia. Arch Sex Behav 38, 306–309 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9451-9
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