Representing prison life: criminal creativity in the imperial and soviet eras

• Main Author: Young, SJ
• Other Authors: Rogatchevski, A, Hansen, J
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Russian literature; Gulag; Prison; Dostoevsky; Varlam Shalamov; art; criminal slang; Sakhalin; Abram Terts; Vlas Doroshevich; Kolyma; Penal
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1364264/

The essay explores how the position and representation of the criminal world, an area frequently posited as indicating a radical break between the pre-revolutionary and Soviet penal systems, in fact becomes a source of continuities, through the recurring theme of the criminal as poet, verbal artist...