The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

by Mark Galeotti

Book Overview

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 explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300186827
• ISBN13: 9780300186826
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"