Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld

by Nicolai Lilin

Book Overview

In a contested, lawless region between Moldova and Ukraine known as Transnistria, a tightly knit group of "honest criminals"--exiled there by Stalin-live according to strict codes of ritualized respect and fierce loyalty. Here, tattoos tell the story of a man's life, "honest" weapons are separated from "sinful" ones, and authority is always to be distrusted. Beyond the control of any government and outside the bounds of "society" as we know it, these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393080854
• ISBN13: 9780393080858
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"