Drawings from the Gulag (Hardcover, Iminal Tattoo E)

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.

General

Imprint:	FUEL Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Danzig Baldaev • Fuel • Damon Murray • Stephen Sorrell
Dimensions:	208 x 165 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	Iminal Tattoo E
ISBN-13:	978-0-9563562-4-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Graphic design
LSN:	0-9563562-4-9
Barcode:	9780956356246

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