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Books editor, Karen Shook, speaks to Svetlana Stephenson, a London Metropolitan University sociologist and author of Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, about her life as a university student in the USSR, her summer as a visiting fellow in the "paradise" of the University of Kent, the undreamed-for changes in society and the academy ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, and interviewing ¡°the lads¡± of Kazan gangs about criminality, masculinity, social mobility and the code of the street.