Dr Jakub Lonsky (Uniwersytet Edynburski) z wykładem - 06.03 na WNE UW

W ramach seminarium WES, swoje badanie zatytułowane „Gulags, Crime, and Elite Violence: Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia” zaprezentuje dr Jakub Lonsky (Uniwersytet Edynburski).

Wykład odbędzie się 6 marca br. o godz. 17:00 w s. A203. Dołączyć można również zdalnie, za pośrednictwem platformy Zoom.

Link do spotkania: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/93278126659?pwd=HAlBLR5bz9uqFroMDWLPnPF02vgqWi.1

[Identyfikator spotkania: 932 7812 6659
Kod dostępu: 014067]

Poniżej prezentujemy abstrakt wystąpienia.

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This paper studies the origins and consequences of the Russian mafia (vory-v-zakone). Using a unique web scraped dataset containing detailed biographies of more than 5,000 mafia leaders, I first show that the Russian mafia originated in the Soviet Gulag, and could be found near the camps' initial locations throughout the 1990s Russia. Then, using an instrumental variable approach that exploits the proximity of the Russian mafia to the camps, I show that Russian communities with mafia presence in the 1990s experienced a dramatic rise in crime driven by elite violence which erupted shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The surge in violence was indiscriminate and driven by ethnic conflict, not only with rival organized crime groups – mainly the Chechen clans – but also within the organization itself.