• Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to prosecute those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was...
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  • counter-revolutionary activity grouped together under Article 58 of the Russian RSFSR Penal Code. The article was put in force on 25 February 1927 and remained...
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    "counter-revolutionary sabotage" were distinct sub-articles of Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (58-7, 58–9, and 58-14 respectively), and the meaning of "wrecking" is...
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    special awards. Biography portal Russia portal Soviet Union portal Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union Chronology of...
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  • Master and Margarita Art and culture in the Gulag labor camps Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) The Black Book of Communism Black site Crimes against humanity...
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    of "wrecking" as a crime within the Soviet Union, as found in Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). They picked this Palchinsky to be the chief defendant in a...
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    "enemy of the workers" was formalized in the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), and similar articles in the codes of the other Soviet Republics. At various times...
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    September 1940 and accused of anti-Soviet agitation according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). He was freed from Kaunas Prison at the start of the German...
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    for punishment from 5 to 15 years of imprisonment. Article 1251 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which was in force until January 1, 1997, provided...
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  • to be targeted by Soviet security structures according to the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). The original Serov Instructions had no date or number. The...
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    "enemy of the workers" was formalized in the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), and similar articles in the codes of the other Soviet Republics. At various times...
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  • implemented a resolution by Politburo. The corresponding parts of Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) were modified accordingly. As an element of the rollback of...
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  • jokes could be regarded as a type of extreme sport: according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense...
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  • Gulag camps were arrested for political reasons, according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). One of the largest camps was Vorkutlag, a major Gulag labor...
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  • "corrective labor" and his property confiscated under Articles 58-7 and 11 of the RSFSR Penal Code. On August 1, 1937, although Ginzburg still did not recognize...
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  • Control Act 1950 (US) Inciting subversion of state power (China) Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (Soviet Russia) Burleigh M, Wipperman W, The Racial State: Germany...
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    Lesoreid, of which 108 were political prisoners, convicted under Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (including 27 former Trotskyists). The head of the camp, Mark...
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  • the enemy of the people was introduced, as well as an infamous Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) that covered "counter-revolutionary activities". Soviet combatants...
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    the NKVD sentenced her to 5 years in exile according to the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). She was first deported to Ingair [ru] in the Tobolsky District...
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    The Kostanay court charged Nurmagambetov with the infamous Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (58-10) of Political repression in the Soviet Union era and he...
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  • Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov 25 February – Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) is put into force. 12 May – During the Arcos Affair, British...
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    Article 58-10 of the Stalin-era Criminal Code, "Anti-Soviet agitation", was to a considerable degree preserved in the new 1958 RSFSR Criminal Code as...
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  • are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War....
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    In 1938, NKVD arrested Zinberg for Anti-Soviet agitation (Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code). The same year, he died in Vladivostok. Mark Wischnitzer...
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    penalty extensively. One of the first legal documents resembling a modern penal code was enacted in 1398, which mentioned a single capital crime: a theft performed...
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  • based on the criminal code (article 193 of the Criminal Code of the USSR and the analogous article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). Those who surrendered...
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    sentences by the Special Council of the NKVD according to the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). Papečkys was sentenced to 10 years in prison. However, NKVD...
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  • NKVD and in May 1939 charged with committing crimes under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code, which carried the death penalty. Rudniev initially confessed...
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  • officials of the Soviet secret police. Most were charged under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code with conspiring with imperialist powers to assassinate Stalin...
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  • prosecuted under article 58(10) (later articles 70 and 190(1)) of the RSFSR Criminal Code or corresponding provisions of the other republics' penal laws. The...
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