Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Paradox of Socialist Isolation: Ideology and Territory in the Construction of Soviet Border Controls -- 2 States, Regimes, and Border Controls: The Link between Communism and Isolation -- 3 Borderland Sovereignty Struggles and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1917-1922 -- 4 The Politics of Autarky: Soviet Customs Institutions and the Post-revolutionary Economy in the 1920s -- 5 Border Control and Centre-Periphery Relations in the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 -- 6 State-Sponsored Isolation and Institutional Politics -- 7 The Reconstruction and Maintenance of Border Controls, 1941-1985 -- 8 Perestroika and the Iron Curtain: The Dilemmas of Changing Institutions, 1986-1991 -- 9 Ending Isolation: Border Control in the Soviet Successor States -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.