Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
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Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was revised several times. In particular, its Article 58-1 was updated by the listed sub-articles and put in force on 8 June 1934.
This article introduced the formal notion of the enemy of workers: those subject to articles 58-2 — 58-13 (those under 58-1 were "traitors", 58-14 were "saboteurs").
Penal codes of other republics of the Soviet Union also had articles of similar nature.
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See also
- NKVD troika
- Gulag
- 101st kilometre
- Lenin's Hanging Order
- Politics of the Soviet Union
- Soviet law
- "White", a label on those considered anti-Soviet (almost exclusively in the context of the Russian civil war 1918-1922)
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Comparable concepts in other countries
- Inciting subversion of state power, China
- Espionage Act of 1917, Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, Rex 84, United States
- Berufsbeamtengesetz, Reichstag Fire Decree, The Malicious Practices Act 1933, Nazi Germany
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