Science, Fiction, and Power in the USSR. Special Issue of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 20, Number 4, Fall 2019 [https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/41296/print]

FROM THE EDITORS
Technopolitics and the Frontiers of History, pp. 677-681
ARTICLES
Alexei Yurchak, Communist Proteins: Lenin's Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life, pp. 683-715

Slava Gerovitch, "We Teach Them to Be Free": Specialized Math Schools and the Cultivation of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, pp. 717-754

Ksenia Tatarchenko, "The Right to Be Wrong": Science Fiction, Gaming, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Kon-Tiki: A Path to the Earth (1985–86), pp. 755-781

Joseph Kellner, As Above, So Below: Astrology and the Fate of Soviet Scientism, pp. 783-812

Reaction

Grégory Dufaud, Alexander Bainbridge, The History of Science and Technology, or How to Grasp Heterogeneity, pp. 813-822

REVIEW ESSAYS
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Putting One and One Together? "Ukraine," "Malorossiia," and "Russia", pp. 823-840
REVIEWS
Maureen Perrie, Samozvanstvo and the Legitimation of Power in Russian Political Culture, pp. 855-864

Zhang Fengfeng, Zhang Laiyi, Divergent Paths in the History of Central Eurasia, pp. 865-878
Éric Aunoble, Postrevolutionary Syndromes, pp. 879-888

Jörn Happel, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov Analyzes the US Enemy in the USSR, pp. 889-894

Katja M. Mielke, Thirty Years after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, pp. 895-903

IN MEMORIAM
Mark von Hagen (1954–2019), by Laurie Manchester, pp. 904-906

LETTER
Taras Kuzio, To the Editors, pp. 907-910