Volume 20, Number 4 (Fall 2019)
Special Issue: Science, Fiction, and Power in the Soviet Union
From the Editors
Technopolitics and the Frontiers of History . . . 677
Articles
Alexei Yurchak
Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life . . . 683
Slava Gerovitch
“We Teach Them to Be Free”: Specialized Math Schools and
the Cultivation of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia . . . 717
Ksenia Tatarchenko
“The Right to Be Wrong”: Science Fiction, Gaming, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Kon-Tiki: A Path to the Earth (1985–86) . . . 755
Joseph Kellner
As Above, So Below: Astrology and the Fate of Soviet Scientism . . . 783
Reaction
Grégory Dufaud
The History of Science and Technology, or How to Grasp
Heterogeneity . . . 813
Review Essays
Volodymyr Kravchenko
Putting One and One Together? “Ukraine,” “Malorossiia,” and
“Russia” . . . 823
Courtney Doucette
A Blast from the Past . . . 841
Reviews
Maureen Perrie
Samozvanstvo and the Legitimation of Power in Russian
Political Culture . . . 855
Zhang Fengfeng and Zhang Laiyi
Divergent Paths in the History of Central Eurasia . . . 865
Éric Aunoble
Postrevolutionary Syndromes . . . 879
Jörn Happel
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov Analyzes the US Enemy in the USSR . . . 889
Katja M. Mielke
Thirty Years after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan . . . 895
In Memoriam
Laurie Manchester
Mark von Hagen (1954–2019) . . . 904
Letter
Taras Kuzio
To the Editors
With a Response from Tarik Cyril Amar . . . 907
Contributors to This Issue . . . 911