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