This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it, in late Imperial Russia and early Soviet Union.

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Riccardo Nicolosi is professor of Slavic literatures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. His latest publications explore the rhetorical and narrative interfaces between literature and science. Anne Hartmann is an assistant researcher and lecturer in the Slavic department at the University of Bochum. In her current research she concentrates on Western intellectuals visiting the Stalinist USSR and on Soviet labor camp literature.