Blog Posts

Soviet Data Digitization and Contextualization Introduction Starting in August 2025, I began collecting, digitizing, and contextualizing data on Russia and the Soviet Union for the KGB Lab’s website. This blog post serves as a reflection on why I chose to analyze many of the sources, as well as a commentary on the importance of viewing […]

Introduction to the KGB/Soviet Secret Police Q&A Database What does a secret police interrogation sound like, exactly? What are the stories of the interrogated? How are secret police interrogation questions formed – do they follow any particular syntactic constructions? Which questions elicit the longest answers, and which ones the shortest? How does the language of […]