Day: September 13, 2025
‘Zhigany’ and “Urki”: From the White Guards to ‘Thieves-in-Law’
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The modern self-designations of ‘thieves’ such as ‘law-abiding’, ‘lawful thieves’, and ‘thieves-in-law’ also originate from the pre-Revolutionary subculture of the…