Volume 23, Number 3 (Summer 2022)

Special Issue: Culture, Practices, and Secret Policing in the USSR and Eastern Europe

From the Editors

Archival Insights and the Secret Police . . . 451–55

Articles

Angelina Lucento

The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine . . . 457–92

Tatiana Vagramenko

KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime . . . 493–522

Cristina Vatulescu

The Mug Shot and the Close-Up: Identification and Visual Pedagogy in Secret Police Film . . . 523–51

Molly Pucci

The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II . . . 553–80

Erik R. Scott

The Black Sea Coast as a Landscape of Cold War Intelligence . . . 581–604

Joshua Sanborn

Cybernetics and Surveillance: The Secret Police Enter the Computer Age . . . 605–28

Reaction

Catriona Kelly

Police Talk: The Culture and Practices of the Secret Police in the Soviet Bloc . . . 629–39

Review Essays

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Game Over? Russia’s Conquest of Central Asia Reconsidered . . . 641–58

Franziska Davies

Diversity, Belonging, and Violence in the Russian and Soviet Empires . . . 659–74

Reviews

Mischa Gabowitsch

War Monuments and the Transformation of Russian Memorial Culture in the Long 20th Century . . . 675–84

Christine Varga-Harris

Feminist in Actions if Not Name . . . 685–89

Contributors to This Issue . . . 690–92

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