Criminal Subculture in the Gulag

Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps

By:

Mark Vincent

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Hardback

Series:

Library of Modern Russia

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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.

Author Biography:

Mark Vincent is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in 2015 from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Release date Australia

June 11th, 2020

Author

Mark Vincent

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

30 bw illus

Pages

240

Series

Library of Modern Russia

ISBN-13

9781788311892

Product ID

29046449

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