Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Into and Beyond the Stalinist Model of Secret Policing | Michael David-Fox
1. The Origins of Stalin’s Mass Operations: The Extrajudicial Special Assembly, 1922–1953 | Marc Junge, Andrei Savin, and Aleksei Tepliakov
2. The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine | Angelina Lucento
3. KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime | Tatiana Vagramenko
4. The Gulag’s “Dead Souls”: Mortality of Released Invalids in the Camps, 1930–1955 | Mikhail Nakonechnyi
5. Deciphering the Stalinist Perpetrators: The Case of Georgian NKVD Investigators Khazan, Savitskii, and Krimian | Timothy K. Blauvelt and David Jishkariani
6. “Conflicts Are the Core of Social Life”: Fomenting Mistrust at the Tallinn State Conservatory in the 1940s–1960s | Aigi Rahi-Tamm
7. Constructing Guilt and Tracking the Enemy: The Hunt for “State Criminals” in Soviet Lithuania, 1944–1953 | Emilia Koustova
8. The Mug Shot and the Close-Up: Identification and Visual Pedagogy in Secret Police Film | Cristina Vatulescu
9. The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II | Molly Pucci
10. The Black Sea Coast as a Landscape of Cold War Intelligence | Erik R. Scott
11. Recidivism, Prophylaxis, and the KGB | Edward Cohn
12. Human Rights Activism as International Conspiracy: Iurii Andropov, Soviet Dissidents, and “Ideological Sabotage,” 1967–1980 Douglas Selvage
13. Cybernetics and Surveillance: The Secret Police Enter the Computer Age | Joshua Sanborn
Contributors
Index