Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps
Series:
Library of Modern Russia;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 11 June 2020
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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ISBN13: | 9781788311892 |
ISBN10: | 1788311892 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 240 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 508 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 30 bw illus |
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Despite growing academic interest in the Gulag, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete. Criminal Subculture in the Gulag, in its sophisticated analysis of crime, punishment and everyday life in Soviet labour camps, rectifies this.
From Gulag journals and song collections to tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, Mark Vincent draws on often-overlooked archival material from the Moscow Criminological Bureau to reconstruct a fuller picture of Gulag daily life and society. In thematic chapters, Vincent maps the Gulag 'penal arc' of prisoners across initiation tests, means of communication, the importance of card playing, punishment rituals and the notorious 1948-52 cyka ('bitches') internal prison war between military veterans and vory-v-zakone. Most importantly, this timely examination of crime and punishment in modern Russia also highlights the lines of continuity between the Gulag systems, late Imperial Katorga,and today's Russian mafia.
As such, this impressively interdisciplinary volume is important reading for all scholars of 20th-century Russia as well as those interested in international criminality and penology.
From Gulag journals and song collections to tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, Mark Vincent draws on often-overlooked archival material from the Moscow Criminological Bureau to reconstruct a fuller picture of Gulag daily life and society. In thematic chapters, Vincent maps the Gulag 'penal arc' of prisoners across initiation tests, means of communication, the importance of card playing, punishment rituals and the notorious 1948-52 cyka ('bitches') internal prison war between military veterans and vory-v-zakone. Most importantly, this timely examination of crime and punishment in modern Russia also highlights the lines of continuity between the Gulag systems, late Imperial Katorga,and today's Russian mafia.
As such, this impressively interdisciplinary volume is important reading for all scholars of 20th-century Russia as well as those interested in international criminality and penology.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Etap (Transportation)
2. Socialisation
3. Communication
4. Enactment
5. Punishment
6. Conflict
Conclusion: Criminal Subculture after the Gulag
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Etap (Transportation)
2. Socialisation
3. Communication
4. Enactment
5. Punishment
6. Conflict
Conclusion: Criminal Subculture after the Gulag
Bibliography
Index