Kritika Volume 20 No. 4

Contents

 

                                      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