Жиганы, уркаганы, блатари. Подлинная история воровского братства 1917-1941

Zhigans, urkagans, blatnyaks, "honest thieves" - thieves' professions that did not exist in tsarist Russia. They appeared only after the revolution, along with new types of crimes. As a result, a whole "thieves' brotherhood" arose with its own laws, concepts, symbols and hierarchy. At the same time, well-known thieves in law appeared - people standing at the very top of the criminal community. Who became a thief in law in the 30-40s and how they managed the "brotherhood" - in the stories of eyewitnesses and in the materials of criminal cases. A complete picture of the life of thieves both in the wild and in the camps appears on the pages of this book.