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This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focu...
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This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various disciplines (criminology, psychiatry, and literature), and penal practice, that is, different aspects of criminal law and anti-crime policy. Thus, the volume is markedly interdisciplinary, with authors representing a variety of approaches in history and literary studies, from social history to discourse analysis, from the history of sciences to text analysis.
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Pages: 252
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date: 27 December 2017
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837641592
Format: Paperback
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet), HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Social History
»The volume advances our knowledge of Russian and Soviet criminological thinking and practice.«

Riccardo Nicolosi (PhD) is professor of Slavic literatures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. His latest publications explore the rhetorical and narrative interfaces between literature and science.
Anne Hartmann (PhD) is an assistant researcher und lecturer in the Slavic department at the University of Bochum. In her current research she concentrates on Western intellectuals visiting the Stalinist USSR and on Soviet labour-camp literature.

Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
The Empire-Born Criminal 31
P. I. Kovalevskii 63
Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity 85
Recidivism, Social Atavism, and State Security in Early Soviet Policing 119
Cesare Lombroso and the Social Engineering of Soviet Society 149
Concepts of the Criminal in the Discourse of "Perekovka" 167
Criminals in Gulag Accounts 199
Varlam Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World 233
On the Contributors 247
Backmatter 250