2009
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Galia Ackerman, « Quelques réflexions sur la pègre et le pouvoir dans le pays des Soviets. De Staline à Poutine », La Revue russe, ID : 10.3406/russe.2009.2401
The paper considers different aspects of a complicated relationship between the communist power and the criminal world. Why did Stalin's regime use criminals to control political prisoners in the concentration camps ? Why did simple citizens and the intelligentsia have so much sympathy for criminals during most of the Soviet period ? How did the criminal world integrate the post-Soviet business elite ? What is its influence on the moral values of the new Russian society ?