{"product_id":"criminal-subculture-in-the-gulag-mark-vincent-9781788311892","title":"Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps","description":"Despite growing academic interest in the Gulag, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete. \u003ci\u003eCriminal Subculture in the Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e, in its sophisticated analysis of crime, punishment and everyday life in Soviet labour camps, rectifies this. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003ecyka\u003c\/i\u003e ('bitches') internal prison war between military veterans and \u003ci\u003evory-v-zakone\u003c\/i\u003e. Most importantly, this timely examination of crime and punishment in modern Russia also highlights the lines of continuity between the Gulag systems, late Imperial \u003ci\u003eKatorga, \u003c\/i\u003eand today's Russian mafia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Vincent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788311892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788311892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Mark Vincent","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941523489023,"sku":"9781788311892","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_30e106ce-e576-4c57-8051-5ce049cb57f1.jpg?v=1681453414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/criminal-subculture-in-the-gulag-mark-vincent-9781788311892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}