Criminal subculture in the gulag : prisoner society in the Stalinist labour camps, 1924-53 /
Mark Vincent.
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (241 pages) : : illustrations.
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on translation and transliteration -- Introduction: The world of the 49ers -- Svoi vs. frayera -- The evolution of the Stalinist Gulag -- Criminal subculture in Gulag memoirs -- Criminal subculture in the Gulag, 1924-53 -- 1 Criminal subculture before the Gulag -- Vanka Kain -- Sonka 'Golden Hand' -- Fomka 'Zhigan' and the besprizorniki -- Kostia and Murka -- Conclusion -- 2 Etap : The shaping of prisoner relations. - 6 Punishment and conflict: Urka courts and the 'bitches' war' -- Ritual -- Punishment -- Suchya voina ('bitches' war') -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Cult of the urka -- Criminal subculture after the Gulag -- Conclusions -- Glossary of commonly used terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. - Na etap ('during prisoner transportation') -- Conclusion -- 3 Hierarchies: Arrival, socialisation and the prisoner code -- Hierarchies -- Sexual order of the Gulag -- Initiation -- Socialisation -- The prisoner code -- Conclusion -- 4 Communication: Tattoos and slang -- Tattoos -- Slang -- Conclusion -- 5 Gambling: Card playing and the structuring of prisoner society -- Kartzhnaya igra ('the card game') -- Kartezhnye igry ugolovnikov ('Card Games of the Criminals') -- Igrat' na pyatovo ('to play the fifth') -- Card playing and the Gulag's forced sexual order -- Conclusion. - "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."--
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| ISBN | 1-350-14273-5. - 1-350-14275-1
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