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FROM THE EDITORS
Archival Insights and the Secret Police pp. 451–55
ARTICLES
Angelina Lucento The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine pp. 457–492
Tatiana Vagramenko KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime pp. 493–522
Cristina Vatulescu The Mug Shot and the Close-Up: Identification and Visual Pedagogy in Secret Police Film pp. 523–551
Molly Pucci The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II pp. 553–580
Erik R. Scott The Black Sea Coast as a Landscape of Cold War Intelligence pp. 581–604
Joshua Sanborn Cybernetics and Surveillance: The Secret Police Enter the Computer Age pp. 605–628
REACTION
Catriona Kelly Police Talk: The Culture and Practices of the Secret Police in the Soviet Bloc pp. 629–639
REVIEW ESSAYS
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Game Over? Russia’s Conquest of Central Asia Reconsidered pp. 641–658
Franziska Davies Diversity, Belonging, and Violence in the Russian and Soviet Empires pp. 659–674
REVIEWS
Mischa Gabowitsch War Monuments and the Transformation of Russian Memorial Culture in the Long 20th Century pp. 675–684
Christine Varga-Harris Feminist in Actions if Not Name pp. 685–689
Contributors to This Issuepp. 690–692