“…The special issue of this journal (Svenonius and Björklund 2018a) on the topic of post-communism, therefore, was a first step in introducing post-communist studies to the field. Only a few studies relevant to both fields have been published, for example, on video surveillance (Björklund and Svenonius 2013;Sojka 2013;Svenonius 2011;Waszkiewicz 2011), gated communities (Cséfalvay and Webster 2012;Gasior-Niemiec, Glasze, and Putz 2009;Polanska 2011), the history of surveillance and control (Gabdulhakov 2018;Richterova 2018), activism (Lokot 2018;Mehrabov 2017;Spaiser et al 2017), and public attitudes towards surveillance and privacy (Budak, Rajh, and Anić 2015;Budak and Rajh 2018;Friedewald et al 2015;Svenonius and Björklund 2018b). 2 Despite these recent publications, no serious attempts to develop a theory at the intersection of post-communist studies and surveillance studies have been carried out.…”