 | Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power Subjects: Gangs -- Russia (Federation); Organized crime -- Russia (Federation); Political corruption -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991–; Using in-depth interviews with gang members, law enforcers, and residents in the city of Kazan, together with analyses of historical and sociological accounts from across Russia, Svetlana Stephenson presents the history of gangs in Russia both before and after the arrival of market capitalism. Svetlana Stephenson is Reader in Sociology at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia and coeditor of Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union . |
