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From All Sides: Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Scientific Collaboration, and the Soviet Criminological Laboratories of the 1920s

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The erosion of boundaries was a common motif in descriptions of Soviet life during the 1920s. It provided a powerful way of signifying the different rules in operation after the Bolshevik Revolution. Soviet criminal science was a microcosm of this larger change in thought and practice. Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet, the jurist and criminologist, was particularly fond of using the imagery of prerevolutionary boundaries and their post-revolutionary destruction to describe developments in his field. Under the autocracy, he claimed, scientists were kept away from criminals and their site of containment—the prison. It was, Gernet noted with a degree of dark humor, rather easy to gain entry to a Tsarist prison cell as a political activist, but not as a researcher, who was met at the prison door with the sign: “Entrance to outsiders is strictly prohibited.” In sharp contrast, Soviet scientists were invited into the prisons and given direct access to the inmates. Gernet wrote: “The possibility for us to go right up to living criminals first appeared under Soviet power; until then, we only saw them in the courtroom and behind prison bars, and were not given the opportunity to get near them.”

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55. Shirvindt, “O problemakh prestupnosti,” 12.

56. RGB, otdel rukopisei, f. 603, k. 3, d. 21, ll. 19–20 (Tezisy po teme ‘Izuchenie prestupnosti i prestupnika’). Liublinskii’s program emphasized specializations like medicine, education, and psychology, but a handwritten comment on the document suggested that it also should encompass “the rich experience of penitentiary workers.”

57. Gernet, “Gosudarstvennyi institut po izucheniiu prestupnosti,” 33.

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60. The leadership of the State Institute was aware of this trend and its political implications. See the response to charges that the flagship periodical was a “parliament of opinions” that lacked “a single face.” E. Shirvindt, “Ot redaktsii,” Problemy prestupnosti no. 4 (1929), no page number.

61. Richard F. Wetzell, “Criminology in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” in Criminals, 401–4; and Cohen, 130.

62. Ivanov and Il'ina, 109–13.

63. Tsentral'nii derzhavnii arkhiv vishchikh organiv vladi ta upravlinnia Ukraini (TsDAVO), f. 5, op. 3, d. 484, l. 3 (E. Frenkel', “Osnovnye metody provedeniia issledovaniia pravonarushitelia”).

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71. Gernet, “Pervaia,” 29.

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74. Gernet, “Pervaia,” 29.

75. TsDAVO, f. 5, op. 3, d. 484, l. 54 (Instruktsiia iacheikam).

76. Iu. Iu. Bekhterev, Izuchenie lichnosti zakliuchennogo (istoriia, zadachi, metodika i tekhnika) (Moscow, 1928), 3–7. Bekhterev believed that prison workers and educators were capable of gathering information about the inmates’ personality without special instruments and scientific knowledge. The purpose of his pamphlet was to frame their observations and give them a sense of what to look for and record in the “individual forms” about inmates.

77. It is doubtful that Khatuntsev’s proposal went very far. The editors of the journal stated that they disagreed with many of his ideas, but published the article because it raised some interesting questions. Khatuntsev, 51–56.

78. Khatuntsev, 54–55.

79. A. A. Gertsenzon, “K metodike individual'no-sotsiologicheskogo izucheniia pravonarushitelei,” Prestupnik i prestupnost', no. 2 (Moscow, 1927): 152–64. Emphasis in the original.

80. Gertsenzon, 161.

81. Gernet, “Pervye,” 16; TsGA g. Moskvy f. 1609, op. 6, d. 102, l. 27 (Programma seminariia prof. M. N. Gerneta po ugolovnomu pravu (na tret'em kursu)); and Pinnow, 108.

82. Here I am obviously adapting Stephen Kotkin’s well-known formulation about “speaking Bolshevik.”

83. V. V. Brailovskii, for example, defined the criminologist as someone who applied the sociological method, as opposed to the biologist, who employed natural scientific methods. V. V. Brailovskii, “O biologicheskikh korniakh prestupnosti,” Sbornik po psikhonevrologii (Rostov-on-Don, 1928), 545.

84. Collins, Evans, and Gorman, 12–13.

85. TsGA g. Moskvy f. 1609, op. 6, d. 102, l. 27 (Programma); TsGA g. Moskvy, f. 1609, op. 7, d. 155, ll. 11–11ob (Protokol No. 2); and TsGA g. Moskvy f. 1609, op. 7, d. 182,l. 42 (Osnovy).

86. Rapoport, 34–35. Rapoport also argued that doctors were more trusted by prisoners and thus their leading role helped to improve the quality of information that was gathered.

87. Utevskii, 232.

88. Bekhterev, Izuchenie, 12.

89. Graham, Loren R., Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge, Eng., 1993), 178–79Google Scholar.

90. According to one study of scientific collaboration, people choose collaboration when it “is viewed as the best or perhaps the only way of achieving one’s objectives.” Shrum, Wesley, Genuth, Joel, and Chompalov, Ivan, Structures of Scientific Collaboration (Cambridge, Mass., 2007), 20Google Scholar.

91. “Big science” involved the move from small- to large-scale scientific activities in the early 20th-century. See Krementsov, Martian, 6–7; and Krementsov, Revolutionary, 98–100.

92. Krementsov, Nikolai, “Hormones and the Bolsheviks: From Organotherapy to Experimental Endocrinology, 1918–1929,” Isis 99, no. 3 (September 2008): 513–18Google Scholar.

93. Kowalsky, Deviant, 54; and Solomon, Susan Gross, “The Limits of Government Patronage of Sciences: Social Hygiene and the Soviet State, 1920–1930,” Social History of Medicine 3, no. 3 (December 1990): 405–35Google Scholar. Dependence on funding agencies and individuals also made collaborative projects in the United States unstable. See Crowther-Heyck, 445.

94. For example, Gernet’s former pupils were scattered throughout the government, and he made use of these connections to construct the experiential component of his criminal law seminar. TsGA g. Moskvy f. 1609, op. 6, d. 102, l. 28 (Programma).

95. In addition to his work at the State Institute, Gernet also led the Department of Moral Statistics in the Central Statistical Administration, taught in the law faculty at Moscow University, headed the university’s criminological museum, and participated in the founding of the Moscow Bureau.

96. Mogil'ner, 351–58. Viktor Valerianovich Bunak, for example, participated in the Moscow Bureau. See E. Kh. Krasnushkin, “Kabinet po izucheniiu lichnosti prestupnika i prestupnosti,” in Izuchenie, 32.

97. Beer, 167, 182.

98. Klein, “A Taxonomy,” 18.

99. Shrum, Genuth, and Chompalov, esp. Chapter 1.

100. “Disput k voprosu ob izuchenii prestupnosti v SSSR,” Revoliutsiia prava no. 3 (1929): 47–78; Shelley, “Soviet Criminology,” 624–26; and Shelley, , “The 1929 Dispute on Soviet Criminology,” Soviet Union 6, no. 2 (1979): 175–85Google Scholar.

101. A. G. “Nervus vagus prestupnosti,” Revoliutsiia prava no. 6 (1929): 169–72. Brailovskii was a psycho-neurologist and directed the North-Caucasus Scientific Bureau for the Study of Crime.

102. Kowalsky, Deviant, 74–75. Many of the leading figures of early Soviet criminology survived the upheavals of the 1930s and remained active until their deaths by natural causes. Mikhail Gernet, who went fully blind, retreated to the relative safety of the past, devoting his last years to writing a monumental history of the Tsarist prisons that won a Stalin prize in 1947. This is similar to the story told by Mark Adams in regard to the fate of eugenics at the end of the 1920s. See “Eugenics in Russia, 1900–1940,” in Adams, Mark B., ed., The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (Oxford, 1990), 185–92Google Scholar.

103. The State Institute went through multiple reorganizations during the 1930s. It was renamed the State Institute of Criminal Policy in 1931 with additional changes and titles to follow. Its bio-psychological and forensic sections were closed, as were the local and regional criminological laboratories. See Solomon, “Soviet Criminology,” 128–31; and Shelley, “Soviet Criminology,” 625–27.

104. Scholars of interdisciplinary collaboration emphasize that an extensive time period is needed for true integration to take place and for new interdisciplinary fields to coalesce. See, for example, Collins, Evans, and Gorman, 20–21.

105. Solomon, “Soviet Criminology”; and Dowling, Rhiannon, “Explaining and Preventing Crime in the Soviet 1970s: The Institute of Criminology and Problems in the (American) War on Crime,” Berkeley Program in East European and Eurasian Studies Working Paper Series (Summer 2013)Google Scholar, at www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5wx290g3 (last accessed January 9, 2016).