Born to be Criminal: The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Born to be Criminal

The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited by: Riccardo Nicolosi and Anne Hartmann

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839441596

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

»A well worth reading anthology that contains exciting articles on little-noticed aspects of crime discourse.«
Lena Gautam, Jahrbücher für die Geschichte Osteuropas, 9/1 (2019)
»The volume advances our knowledge of Russian and Soviet criminological thinking and practice.« Jonathan Daly, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 50/2 (2019)

»An important addition to the literature on perceptions of crime and penal policy in Russia and it is sure to spark more research into those subjects.«
Alison Rowley, The Russian Review, 78/1 (2018)

Besprochen in:
H-Soz-u-Kult, 29.01.2019, Alexandra Oberländer
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 7/8 (2020), Björn M. Felder

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Riccardo Nicolosi and Anne Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
I. Inborn Criminality and the Late Russian Empire
The Empire-Born Criminal Atavism, Survivals, Irrational Instincts, and the Fate of Russian Imperial Modernity Marina Mogilner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
P. I. Kovalevskii Criminal Anthropology and Great Russian Nationalism Louise McReynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity Narratives of Inborn Criminality and Atavism in Late Imperial Russia (1880-1900) Riccardo Nicolosi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
II. On the Treatment of Social Deviance and Criminals in the Late 1920s-early 1930S
Recidivism, Social Atavism, and State Security in Early Soviet Policing David Shearer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Cesare Lombroso and the Social Engineering of Soviet Society Marc Junge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Concepts of the Criminal in the Discourse of “Perekovka” Anne Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
III. Political and ‘Other’ Prisoners – Literature of the Gulag
Criminals in Gulag Accounts Renate Lachmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Varlam Shalamov’s Sketches of the Criminal World Leona Toker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
On the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 252
Keywords: Soviet Union; Criminality; Criminology; Literature; Law; Medicine; Slavic Studies; Eastern European History; Social History; Cultural History; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: November 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839441596