Birgit Menzel: Introduction – Prerevolutionary Roots and Early Soviet Manifestations – Julia Mannherz: The Occult and Popular Entertainment in Late Imperial Russia – Konstantin Burmistrov: The History of Esotericism in Soviet Russia in the 1920s - 1930s – Oleg Shishkin: The Occultist Aleksandr Barchenko and the Soviet Secret Police (1923 - 1938) – Markus Osterrieder: From Synarchy to Shambhala: The Role of Political Occultism and Social Messianism in the Activities of Nicholas Roerich – Michael Hagemeister: Konstantin Tsiolkovskii and the Occult Roots of Soviet Space Travel – Manifestations in the Soviet Period (1930 - 1985) – Birgit Menzel: Occult and Esoteric Movements in Russia from the 1960s to the 1980s – Leonid Heller: Away from the Globe. Occultism, Esotericism and Literature in Russia during the 1960s - 1980s – Matthias Schwartz: Guests from Outer Space. Occult Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction – Marlène Laruelle: Totalitarian Utopia, the Occult, and Technological Modernity in Russia. The Intellectual Experience of Cosmism – The Occult Revival in Late and Post Soviet Russia (1985 to the Present) – Demyan Belyaev: Occult and Esoteric Doctrines after the Collapse of Communism – Mark Sedgwick: Occult Dissident Culture: The Case of Aleksandr Dugin – Marlène Laruelle : The Rodnoverie Movement: The Search for Pre-Christian Ancestry and the Occult – Marina Aptekman: Through an Occult Prism: The Bolshevik Revolution in Three Post-Soviet Novels – Natalia Zhukovskaia: Shamanism in the Russian Intelligentsia (Post-Soviet Space and Time) – John McCannon: Competing Legacies, Competing Visions of Russia. The Roerich Movement(s) in Post-Soviet Russia – Boris Falikov: On the Way from Border Conflicts. Transpersonal Psychology in Russia – Comparative Aspects, Continuity and Change – Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal: Occultism as a Response to a Spiritual Crisis – Jeffrey J. Kripal: On Reading Russian Mystical Literature Upside-Down