| #187843 in Books | Baldaev, Danzig (ILT)/ Vasiliev, Sergei (PHT)/ Sidorov, Alexander (CON) | 2008-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x5.25 x1.00l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | Fuel Publishing||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| History - On The Flesh|By The Stark Family|The books are a history of the Soviet penal system as much as they are a reflection of a dark period of Russian history. The tattoos illustrated men and women who often were sent to prison for as little as stealing an ear of corn during famished times are the pictorial description of an oppressive regime and the confessions of the dise
This volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev’s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. His recording of this esoteric world was reported to the KGB, who unexpectedly supported him, realizing the importance of being able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images on their bodies....
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III | Danzig Baldaev. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.