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The Grammar of Trust and Distrust under State Socialism after Stalin. Introduction The introduction to the special issue defines trust/distrust from an interdisciplinary perspective, treating these emotions as analytical categories and outlining their potential for historical analysis. Inspired by the emotional and sensory turns, the guest editor examines the shift from Stalinist violence towards a politics of trust and empathy. This new politics saw these feelings as powerful emotional forces and moral resources that not only made it possible to renegotiate a social contract between the state, society and the individual, but also enabled the stabilisation of the Eastern bloc as a whole in the post-Stalin era. Differentiating between regimes and communities of trust/distrust, the author sheds light on the grammar of trust and distrust under state socialism, which impacted the shared sense of stability and inner hybridity of the socialist personality. By connecting trust and distrust with the key analytical categories of gender and generation, morality and power, consumption and materiality, and self and subjectivity, this special issue is a contribution to a history of trust and distrust that provides further reflection on the unceasing debate about what socialism was and what the lived experience of socialism continues to be in post-communist space.

Only by striving to understand the alien behavior of a remote time and place can one hope to understand whence we have come and how much of the past still lives unrecognized within us. Edward Muir 2

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Soviet Communication and Soviet Society (1917-1953): Alignments and Tensions -- Overview -- Soviet Society in Communication: Political Conditions and Interactional Consequences -- Communication in Soviet Society: Adaptations, Changes and Repercussions -- References -- Part I: Channels -- Chapter 2: Visual Channels (1): Posters and Fine Art -- Posters -- Fine Art -- References -- Chapter 3: Visual Channels (2): Cityscapes -- Talking to the Uninitiated -- A More Planned Approach -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Visual Channels (3): Cartography -- Introduction -- The Development of Soviet Cartography -- Mapping the Revolution: The Cartographic Communication of Spatial Ideology -- Cartographic Secrecy in Post-revolutionary Russia -- References -- Published Sources -- Archival Sources -- Chapter 5: Auditory Channels: Crowing Roosters and Wailing Sirens -- Human Vocal Organs, Musical Instruments, and Records -- Soundscapes: A General View -- Russia Between Rural and Industrial Soundscapes: A Comparative Glance -- Sound Design and the Recording Rituals: Constructing Soviet Soundscape -- Noise with a Soul: Soundscapes of Soviet Cinema -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 6: Tactile Channels: Brotherly Kisses, Handshakes, and Flogging in a Bathhouse -- Proximity as a Social Identifier -- Touch and Proxemics -- The Politics of Brotherly Kissing in Russia and the Soviet Union -- Rubbing the Back in a Bathhouse from Old to Stalinist Russia -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Media -- Chapter 7: Public Body (1): Popular Assemblies -- Popular Assembly as a Special Interactional Setting -- Birth of Popular Assembly from the Spirit of Revolution -- Modifications of Popular Assembly in Mature Stalinism.