Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Etap (Transportation)
2. Socialisation
3. Communication
4. Enactment
5. Punishment
6. Conflict
Conclusion: Criminal Subculture after the Gulag
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A detailed examination of everyday life, crime and punishment in the Soviet Gulag.

About the Author

Mark Vincent is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in 2015 from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Reviews

Criminal Subculture in the Gulag decolonizes every reader’s perception of what they think they know about incarceration. Vincent’s thoughtful book is a humbling, often harrowing, but necessary read that I recommend to anyone interested in cultures beyond their own.
*Lossi 36*

The horrific criminal subculture which festered inside Stalin’s Gulags has become a staple of film and novel thanks to its ruthless codes and savage tattoos, but has never been examined in such forensic detail as within this book. By digging into contemporary accounts and documents, Mark Vincent shines a light into the deepest darks of labour camp life.
*Mark Galeotti, Honorary Professor, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, UK*

The Gulag was a horror not just for its incarceration of innocents. Mark Vincent creatively uses available but previously untapped sources to draw a captivating portrait of the experiences and unique culture that developed amid the brutal conditions behind barbed wire among the least understood victims of the Gulag—its criminals.
*Steven A. Barnes, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, George Mason University, USA*