Pioneer Summer – banned queer Russian romance novel set in the 1980s
posted Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Pioneer Summer takes place in the year is 1986, and Yurka Konev, 16, has been sent off for another summer at Pioneer Camp. Impulsive, forthright, and unfairly branded as a troublemaker, he anticipates the weeks ahead of him with boredom and dread. But when he’s pushed into working on the camp’s theatre production, he meets […]