Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps
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 importanc…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-14274-9
- EAN: 9781350142749
- Produktnummer: 33934830
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'999 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 bw illus
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Mark Vincent is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in 2015 from the Univeristy of East Anglia, UK.
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