A dark, backward and oppressed periphery: histories of Karelian space -- A Scandinavian revolutionary centre: borders, boundaries and spatial ambitions, 1920-8 -- The limits of autonomy: finance, planning and population, 1930-8 -- A question of survival: centralisation and control of regional space, 1938-32 -- The Urals-Kuznetsk combine on a smaller scale: visions and realities of peripheral development, 1933-7 -- The republican NKVD has slaugtered all our cadres: terror on the periphery, 1935-9