8 episodes
Cult of the Urka Dr Mark Vincent
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- History
An audible exploration of Russian criminality in the 19th and 20th Century.
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Russian Criminal Tattoos - Propaganda
A discussion of how Gulag prisoners adapted Soviet propaganda slogans through their tattoos.
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The Bitches' War
A discussion of the Bitches' War which emerged in the camps of the Gulag following the Second World War.
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Criminal "Courts" in the Spectre of Russian Punishment
An insight into criminal court proceedings in the Gulag and the wider tradition of visual punishment in Russia
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Dmitrii Likhachev and the Art of Criminal Card Playing
An assessment of the importance of gambling motifs in Russian and Soviet penality.
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Vanka Kain
The life and legacy of a Moscow bandit and police super-informant of the eighteenth century.
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