The thieves. History of organized crime in Russia

Abroad, they are a "Russian mafia", for us they are bandits, but here and there they are called "thieves". They are everywhere - in cinema, books, criminal reports and, of course, on the streets. The thieves" jargon entered everyday speech, Chanson is one of the most popular musical genres, and the criminal world still exerts pressure on the business. At the same time, the "thieves" always change and adapt to the requirements of the moment: they abandon the principles for which their predecessors died, adopt the tactics from foreign" colleagues, master new technologies and skillfully mask.
British political scientist, specialist in international crime and Russian special services, Mark Galeotti, is an exciting trip on the history of the thieves" world of Russia: from Japanese (1891-1919) to Japanchik (1940-2009) Galeotti talks about the birth and death of the old "concepts", explains what the key differences in Vladivostoxich organized crime group and St. Petersburg, and also shows how the inexorable logic of the criminal world works