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Drawings from the Gulag (Hardcover, Iminal Tattoo E)
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Drawings from the Gulag (Hardcover, Iminal Tattoo E)
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Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev
(author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the
Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a
respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos
of criminals in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, where
Danzig worked as a guard. He was reported to the K.G.B. who
unexpectedly offered support for his work, allowing him the
opportunity to travel across the former U.S.S.R. Witnessing scenes
of everyday life in the Gulag, he chronicled this previously closed
world from both sides of the wire. With every vignette, Baldaev
brings the characters he depicts to vivid life: from the lowest zek
(inmate) to the most violent tattooed vor (thief), all the
practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system are depicted here in
incredible and often shocking detail. In documenting the attitude
of the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of
these citizens into survivors or victims of the Gulag system, this
graphic novel vividly depicts methods of torture and mass murder
undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities
committed by criminals upon their fellow inmates.
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