Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps

by Mark Vincent

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350253219
• ISBN13: 9781350253216
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"