Book Launch: Postal Censorship, Surveillance, Resistance

The Kule Folklore Centre, in partnership with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, is pleased to host a launch for the newly published collected volume Postal Censorship, Surveillance, Resistance: Twentieth-Century Ukraine and Letter Writing.

Join the book’s editors, Jelena Pogosjan and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, and contributors Jars Balan and Colin Neufeldt, for a discussion on what it took to write under regime pressure and discover how this book unveils the mechanisms of state surveillance.

Postal Censorship, Surveillance, Resistance: Twentieth-Century Ukraine and Letter Writing is edited by Alex Averbuch, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, and Jelena Pogosjan (McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2026)

*Light refreshments will be served.