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