The Vory : Russia's Super Mafia /
"The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can expl...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; INTRODUCTION; Part One FOUNDATIONS; CHAPTER 1 KAIN'S LAND; Criminal histories; Can Russia be policed?; Peasant justice; Policing the countryside; Horse thieves and the bandit tradition; CHAPTER 2 EATING KHITROVKA SOUP; Sins of the city: crime and urbanisation; Russian rookeries; A policeman's lot was not a happy one; Gangs of the city; The vorovskoi mir; CHAPTER 3 THE BIRTH OF THE VORY; War, revolution and crime; Lenin's bitter compromise; Bandits and '49ers'
- Stalin's childrenThe thief within the code; CHAPTER 4 THIEVES AND BITCHES; Bitch in law; Cracks in the code; The balance of terror tilts; The bitches' war; After Stalin; CHAPTER 5 THIEF LIFE; Vor life; Talking tough: thieves' language; One world, one language; Tattoos: writing resistance on the body; Cultures, clothes and custom; Women in the thieves' world; Part Two EMERGENCE; CHAPTER 6 THE UNHOLY TRINITIES; Stalin's legacy; Gangsters under pressure . . .; ... street gangs on the rise; The fish that rotted from the head; The shadow men . . .; ... and their gangster friends
- CHAPTER 7 GORBACHEV'S GANGSTERSThe Bootleg Revolution; Gangster-entrepreneurs; The new gangs; Tomorrow belonged to them; CHAPTER 8 THE 'WILD NINETIES' AND THE RISE OF THE AVTORITETY; Yeltsin's 'superpower of crime'; The protection market and its understandings; From bandity to biznismeny: the 2000s; The end of the vorovskoi mir?; Part Three VARIETIES; CHAPTER 9 GANGS, NETWORKS AND BROTHERHOODS; Gangs and networks; The 'standard hierarchy' and the Uralmash brigade; The 'regional hierarchy' and the Far Eastern Association of Thieves; The 'clustered hierarchy' and the Northern Route
- The 'core group' and the TambovskayaThe 'criminal network' and Solntsevo; CHAPTER 10 THE CHECHEN The gangster's gangster; Born of blood; The highlanders; A tradition of resistance; The two Chechnyas; Bratva in Russia; The protection racketeers' protection racketeer; Kadyrov's empire; CHAPTER 11 THE GEORGIAN The expatriate vor; Bay leaves: the Georgians in Russia; Tariel Oniani and the Georgian 'iron'; Grandfather Hassan's boys; The rise of the youngsters; CHAPTER 12 THE GANGSTER-INTERNATIONALIST; On definitions; Bad neighbours: organised crime in post-Soviet Eurasia
- The rise and fall of the first waveSamosval and Yaponchik: empire builders or exiles?; From conquistadores to merchant-adventurers; A tale of two underworlds; 'Pax Mafiosa' or global economy?; Part Four FUTURE; CHAPTER 13 NEW TIMES, NEW VORY; Deep crime and the deep state; 'It's all business'; 'Ironing the firm'; The gangsterisation of business; 'Everything and everyone is for sale'; When is a vor no longer a vor?; CHAPTER 14 MAFIYA EVOLUTIONS; The first big shock: 2008; The second big shock: 2014; The day of the cheeserunners; New opportunities; The khaker: the virtual vor; War or peace?
