To what extent was the new \"order of love\" promised by Eastern European socialism woven into the practices of socialist vigilance? The volume analyzes the shifting boundaries between the private and the public by addressing questions of love, sex, and body, the intertwining of sex and the state, and efforts to involve the population in enforcing socialist morality.

Eastern European socialism promised liberation from old sexual morality and tried to use new strategies to govern love, sex, and the body through watchfulness.