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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II: v. II [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Danzig Baldaev (Author), Sergei Vasiliev (Author), Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: FUEL; illustrated edition edition (3 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955006120
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955006128
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This completely mind-blowing book told us what the tattoos meant, and how they could become central to the movie.

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The second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburgâs notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This volume further explores the extremes of this incredible collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing book about the USSR, Tattoos and Prison, 29 Dec 2006
By Mr. Paul D. Maher "joey-chickenskin" (Nottingham NG7) - See all my reviews
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This book cracks open a whole world that there really isn't an equivalent of elsewhere. It's a collection of photos and illustrations of prison tattos from soviet detention centres and an explaination of the iconic codes used in the images.

The illustrations are beautifully coppied with a hard and menacing style (if you're interested in cartooning, this book is a MUST) and it would be easy to forget to give credit to the illustrator because they are copies but you don't feel the same unity with the photos and it's the style that make the illustrations, with the often appauling interpretations so striking. There is a substantial introduction and a terrifying map of the Soviet Union covered in dots representing prison camps but most of what makes the book so exciting is the anecdotal chunks of information that accompany the illustrations that creates a world squalid and separate from anything in the outside world but as brutally structured with it's hierarchys and rules, illustrated by the tattoos.

In the west, the Soviet Union loomed large as a mysterious bogeyman until it began to collapse and now it's hard to sort out what was US propaganda to the point where it's almost forgotten as a concept in the west. This book, created from within the prison camps at that time is a living account of the most extreme aspect of that regime and also a study of political and antisocial defiance to that system from the hardest members of that society and is an immediate and metaphorical account in the form of these images.

In the west there was always the notion that Student protests and teenage rebellion couldn't happen where there was no freedom but put quiffs, long hair and rock n roll, against a subculture drawing Lenin over their hearts in the hopes that a firing squad wont shoot the picture, where obscene sex scenes involving devils and political figures are worn on the skin because it can't be confiscated and this brutal society turns western ideas of being rebelious and defiant on their heads.

Please reprint Volume One again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Brilliant, 19 Sep 2008
By Mr. Liam John Warr "Liam J Warr" (Asfordby) - See all my reviews
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Having stumbled across this book & its author through the film Eastern Promise I have been totally captivated by the detail and insight that it gives to a world and life style of a time gone by but still very much alive.

I've just purchased volume 3 which I currently have sat on my bedside table to read but having so far enjoyed volume 2 so much I think I will be giving this a read again before venturing into the third volume.

I cannot rate this book high enough, though this is on its way out of print quicker than any book I've read before and is a testiment to the author who has spent an entire life documenting such an interesting and very much overlooked topic of communist russia.

Worth every single penny.... and then some!
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