Whether or not you know the difference between geopolitics and biopolitics, read this short book for its inordinate theoretical clarity, the luminescent details, and—not in the least—for how it complicates scholarly thought about the post-Soviet varieties of postmodernity.

- Georgi Derluguian, NYU Abu Dhabi,

This study—in which political philosophy and cultural studies cross-pollinate each other—is a long-awaited attempt at reading the post-Soviet experience beyond the dominant institutional, geopolitical, and ideological approaches of largely Western post-Sovietology. This important undertaking demonstrates the authors’ ability to complicate standard Foucauldian theory into a refreshing analysis of biopolitical changes across a number of post-Soviet countries. Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk combine their efforts to rethink major biopolitical theories with an excellent command of versatile and rich empirical material.

- Madina Tlostanova, Linköping University,