Violence and intimacy amongst thieves and bandits

[Deborah Hoffman]

For a  more sympathetic portrait than one usually gets of the vory v zakone, see Blatnoi:roman by Mikhail Demin. Though sometimes libraries class it as fiction (presumably because of the subtitle), it's autobiographical memoirs by someone who fell in with them as a storyteller (if memory serves) and was able to use the information he obtained about their customs to survive in prison. Translated into English as The Day Is Born of Darkness with author's name sometimes given as Dyomin.

   
  

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Subject: Re: Violence and intimacy amongst thieves and bandits

>I would greatly appreciate your assistance in finding Russian literary works
>that deal with issues concerning violence and intimacy amongst "vory v
>zakone" or other criminal groupings, in or out of prison. 
>Thank you kindly in advance.
>
>Sandra Evans
>Slavic Seminar
>Universitaet Tuebingen
>sandra.evans at uni-tuebingen.de
>
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