Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
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 ...
Dan Snow's History Hit · History Hit
April 19, 202020m 40s
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<p>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.</p><br><p>For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, including our new in depth documentary about some of the greatest speeches ever made in the House of Commons, please signup to <a href="http://www.historyhit.tv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.HistoryHit.TV</a> Use code 'pod1' at checkout for your first month free and the following month for just £/$1.</p>
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