Organized crime in the Soviet Russia: the paradox of institutionalization. Part One.
... period didn’t encourage any interaction between criminals and representatives of the authorities. A new stage in the organized crime is associated with the thaw that came in the 1950s, when many forms of organized crime revealed themselves.
Krivosheev V.V.
organized crime, Soviet period of Russian history, transformation of an organized form of criminal activity
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