Sanitising Sex in the USSR: State Approaches to Sexual Health in the Brezhnev Era

Figures & data

FIGURE 1. Number of Convictions under the Latvian SSR’s Anti-VD Law, 1970–1975

Note: Report compiled by L. V. Sazanova, senior researcher at the Central Institute of Skin and Venereal Diseases. Sazanova was instructed to assess the work of dermato-venereological institutions in the Latvian SSR in ‘implementing legislation with the aim of struggling with VD’.

Source: GARF, f. R8009, op. 50, d. 4931, ll. 27–9.