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Books and Special Issues

  • Vagramenko, Tatiana. “When Does the ‘Soviet’ End? Archival Activism and Collaborative Anthropology in Times of War.” Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol 67, no. 1-2 (forthcoming 2025). 
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana and Nadezhda Beliakova (2025). “Introduction: Policing Religion in the Soviet Union.” In The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR. Ed. by T. Vagramenko and N. Beliakova (Lexington Books), pp. 1-30. 
  • Samsonova A. and Tatiana Vagramenko (2025), “Novice Sania: The Life of Underground Orthodox Communities through the Testimony of a Witness for the Prosecution”. In The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR. Ed. by T. Vagramenko and N. Beliakova (Lexington Books), pp. 31-51. 
  • Buyskykh, Julia (2024). “Enduring Through Liminality: Across and Beyond the Borders of Eastern Europe in the Wartime.” Forum Transregionale Studien. Open Access: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/52315
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana (2024). “Operatsiia ‘Lehendovane kraiove biuro’: Diial’nist’ radianskikh spetsluzhb shchodo Svidkiv Yehovy v Ukraini pislia Druhoii svitovoi viiny [Secret Operation ‘Covert Regional Bureau”: The Soviet Secret Police against Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ukraine after World War II].” Ukraїns’ke relihieznavstvo. Vol. 96: 45-57. (Open Access, in Ukrainian, DOI: 10.32420/2306-3548/2024.96.06). 
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana. (2024) “Fotografia confiscată apartinând comunității adventiste-mișcarea reformată.” In Religia clandestină în documentele poliției secrete: O istorie în imagini. Ed. By A. Şincan and J. Kapaló (Humanitas: Bucharest), pp. 221-223. 
  • Buyskykh, Julia. (2023). Old-New Colonial TendenciesiIn Social Anthropology: Empathy in Wartime. Ethnologia Polona, Vol. 44. Open Access: https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/336
  • Buyskykh, Julia. (2023). Beyond Epistemic Violence: Un-Silencing Diverse Ukrainian Voices. Etnografia Polska, Vol. 67 (1-2): 7-19. Open Access: https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/article/view/3634
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana and Francisco Arqueros Fernández. (2023) Criminotheology: Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Putin’s Russia. International Journal for Religious Freedom. Vol. 16(2):83-103.
    Open Access: https://ijrf.org/index.php/home/article/view/247
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana and Francisco Arqueros Fernández. (2023) La guerra santa del Russkiy mir: Religión y guerra en Ucrania. Política y Sociedad. Vol. 60(3), 84415.
    Open Access: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/view/84415/4564456567811
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana. (2023). “Faith and War: Grassroots Ukrainian Protestantism in the Context of the Russian Invasion”. In Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine. Ed. by Catherine Wanner. Routledge, pp. 121-139. Open Access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003382607-8/faith-war-tatiana-vagramenko?context=ubx&refId=da32672c-f187-417f-a80e-789e8955783d
  • Vagramenko, Tatiana. (2023). “KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime”. In The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations. Ed. by Michael David-Fox. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 81-109.
  • Vagramenko, T. (2022). Introducción: Poder popular y disidencia. Europa Central y Oriental durante la Guerra Fría. Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea. Vol. 44: 13-18. 
  • Vagramenko, T. (2022). Las verdades fotográficas de la policía secreta soviética. Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea. Vol. 44: 73-96. 
  • Vagramenko, T. (2022). The image of the enemy: The True Orthodox church in the photographs of the Soviet secret police [Образы врага: Истинно-православная церковь в фотографиях Советских спецслужб]. ISTORIYA. Vol. 13 (6/116) States and Religious Organizations: Strategies of Interaction in the History of the 20th Century. 
  • Vagramenko, T. (2022). KGB Photography Experimentation: Turning Religion into Organized Crime. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Special Issue: Culture, Practices, and Secret Policing in the USSR and Eastern Europe, Vol. 23 (3): 493–522.
  • Vagramenko, T. (2021). KGB ‘Evangelism’: Agents and Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet Ukraine. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 22 (4): 757-786. 

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