Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv Editorial Notes xxiii Introduction: Writing the Self Under Watch: Epistolary Practices, Propaganda, and Political Control in Twentieth-Century Ukraine 3 Alex Averbuch, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Jelena Pogosjan Part One Articles 1 Soviet Postal Censorship from the Second World War to the End of the Cold War 25 Andriy Kohut 2 From "Negative Statements" to "Interesting Documents": The Transition from Military Censorship to Covert Control of Postal Correspondence in the USSR in 1946 52 Jelena Pogosjan 3 Weaponizing Words: Surveillance, Perlustration, Resistance, and Censorship During the Sovietization of Mennonite Communities in Soviet Ukraine (1917-34) 76 Colin P. Neufeldt 4 Dangerous Liaisons: Letters from and to the Soviet "Famine-Lands" as Reported in Canada''s Daily Press, 1932-33 100 Jars Balan 5 Internal Alienation of the Late Stalinist Regime: The Case of Peter Krawchuk 122 Nataliya Bezborodova 6 Stamped with Smiles: Picture Postcards as Nazi Propaganda in the Correspondence of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters 146 Alex Averbuch 7 "We Sent What We Could": Postal Communication Between Ukraine and the Soviet Gulag During the Second World War and the Postwar Period 177 Emily D. Johnson 8 Epistolary Resistance in Trans-Border Family Letter Writing: Navigating KGB Interference in Times of Cold War 199 Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Part Two Appendices A 4 January 1940: Order of the People''s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, No. 0017, "On procedures for the top-secret monitoring of postal and telegraphic correspondence." 233 B 18 January 1940: Order of the People''s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, No. 0074, "On procedures for implementing the political control of international and domestic postal and telegraphic correspondence." 243 C 27 September 1942: Order of the People''s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, No. 002117, "On approving the instructions ''On the work of the military censors of the NKVD of the USSR.

''" 251 D 8 January 1946: Order of the People''s Commissar of State Security of the USSR No. 008, "Announcing the ''Instructions on the work of the political monitoring ("PK") agencies of the NKGB.''" 269 E 14 January 1946: Order of the People''s Commissar of State Security of the USSR No. 0020, "Announcing the ''Instructions on procedures for the covert inspection ("PK") of international postal and telegraphic correspondence.''" 319 F 16 December 1952: Order of the Minister of State Security of the USSR, No. 001155, "Announcing instructions on the covert monitoring of international postal and telegraphic dispatches and intra-union postal correspondence by agencies of the MGB." 338 G 1 December 1959: Order of the Chair of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, No. 00480, "Announcing instructions on the covert monitoring of international and domestic postal and telegraphic dispatches by agencies of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (letter designation: PK).

" 414 H 25 November 1968: Order of the Chair of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, No. 00124, "On implementing instructions on the covert monitoring of postal and telegraphic dispatches by agencies of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR." 480 I 13 November 1973: Order of the Chair of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, No. 00115, "On approving instructions on keeping centralized records on foreign letter-writers at the 6th Department of the otu of the KGB of the Council of Ministers of the USSR." 544 J 10 February 1990: Order of the Chair of the Committee of State Security of the USSR, No. 0023, "On improving counter-intelligence investigation of the postal channel." 563 Table of Archival Holdings 571 Contributors 573 Index 575.