The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era
gulags to become Russia's international criminal class. Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on …

A Prison Without Walls? presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in
eastern Siberia during the very last years of the Tsarist regime, from the 1905 revolution to …

" This chapter establishes the reach of punitive relocation across a range of imperial
contexts, from the late Middle Ages into the twentieth century. It employs a series of case …

The emergence of the prisoner subject is an element of local practices, including how health
is governed. Yet, disciplinary practices have been overlooked in research on health in post …

At the core of this PhD is a critical engagement with the project of translation. Methadone
treatment, promoted within public health as an essential way to treat opioid addiction and …

Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a
place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to assess what an overview of theoretical literature
and case study material can tell us about the different ways crime has been organised in the …

Penitentiary systems serve as breeding grounds for all kinds of diseases. Drawing upon new
archival materials, this article examines the history of the management and reporting of …

The article analyzes the psychological measures that support human existence in prison.
The main source chosen is the novel “Notes from the House of the Dead”(1861–1862) by …

Few aspects of Russian history are as immediately evocative as the imperial exile system,
even to the nonspecialist. From Avvakum to Chekhov, Dostoevskii, Tolstoi, and beyond …