Sowieckie prawo karne w oczach łagiernika. Aleksandra Sołżenicyna wykład o prawie karnym w świetle Archipelagu GUŁag

Soviet Criminal Law in the Eyes of a Gulag Prisoner: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lecture on Light The Archipelago In his monumental non-fiction book, Archipelago, Nobel Prize winning author Solzhenitsyn illustrates real events labor camps literary form. depiction EVIL is shocking. totalitarian regime subjected millions people to horrific fate. As gener- ally well-known, spent eight years concentration camp. Mass terror was essence totalitarianism. included lecture criminal law stressing importance Article 58 Code Russian Federative Socialist Republic Union authorizing this terrorism. himself not lawyer. However, conclusions were very accurate. Code, which consisted seventeen paragraphs, defined “counter-revolutionary offenses”. They obviously punished most rticle became weapon for authorities, who used it convict innocent people. Słowa kluczowe: Aleksandr Sołżenicyn, Nagroda Nobla, prawo karne ZS