Volume 27, Number 2 (Spring 2026)
From the Editors
Slavic Studies as an Object of Transnational Repression . . . 237–41
Articles
TAYLOR C. ZAJICEK
The Stones Will Give Way: Diplomacy and Water Infrastructure in the Soviet-Turkish Borderland . . . 243–78
REBECCA ADELINE JOHNSTON
Growing Better: Culture and Agriculture in the Post-Stalin Era . . . 279–312
ZUKHRA KASIMOVA
Friendship of the Peoples Reconfigured: The Rise of the Shamakhmudovs as Patriarchs of the Soviet Family of Nations . . . 313–45
ALEXIS PERI
Miss USSR: The Entrepreneurship and Exploitation of Women during Perestroika . . . 347–78
Classics in Retrospect
VICTORIA FREDE
The Making of Scenarios of Power . . . 379–94
Review Essays
RYAN TUCKER JONES
“Little Places” in Russia’s History . . . 395–402
JEANNE KORMINA
The Soviet State and Its (Non)human Others . . . 403–14
RYAN REED
Continuity and Change: Introducing the History and Memory of the Gulag . . . 415–34
Contributors to This Issue . . . 435–37