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- Title
Sowieckie prawo karne w oczach łagiernika. Aleksandra Sołżenicyna wykład o prawie karnym w świetle Archipelagu GUŁag.
- Authors
LITYŃSKI, ADAM
- Abstract
In his monumental non-fiction book, The Gulag Archipelago, Nobel Prize winning author Alexandr Solzhenitsyn illustrates real events in Soviet labor camps in literary form. The depiction of EVIL is shocking. The totalitarian Soviet regime subjected millions of people to a horrific fate. As is generally well-known, Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet concentration camp. Mass terror was the essence of Soviet totalitarianism. Solzhenitsyn included a lecture on Soviet criminal law in his book, stressing the importance of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union in authorizing this terrorism. Solzhenitsyn himself was not a lawyer. However, his conclusions were very accurate. Article 58 of the Criminal Code, which consisted of seventeen paragraphs, defined "counter-revolutionary offenses". They were obviously punished most severely. Article 58 became a weapon of terror for the Soviet authorities, who used it convict millions of innocent people.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; RUSSIA; CONCENTRATION camps; CRIMINAL codes; NOBEL Prizes; LITERARY form; NONFICTION reading materials
- Publication
Cracow Studies of Constitutional & Legal History / Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
2084-4115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4467/20844131KS.22.040.16737