Criminal subculture in the Gulag : prisoner society in the Stalinist labour camps, 1924-53 /
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| Author / Creator: | Vincent, Mark, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2020] ©2020 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( 205 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of modern Russia Library of modern Russia. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12387320 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
