Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
I was thrilled to be joined by Mark Vincent, an expert in criminal subculture and prisoner society in Stalinist Labour camps. Mark has looked at thousands of journals, song collections, tattoo drawings and slang dictionaries to reveal a hidden side of Gulag daily life. In this podcast, he also explained how these criminal habits laid the foundations for the Russian mafia.
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