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| | Criminal Code of the RSFSR |
 | | Historically the most interesting part is Article 58, "Counterrevolutionary Crimes," often referred to by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his "Gulag Archipelago" series and his novel "The First Circle." (In "First Circle," note in particular the chapter "Traitor Prince," where some prisoners stage a lampoon of a Stalinist prosecution.) I reproduce Article 58 in English and Russian. |
 | | One can find more epithets in praise of this article than Turgenev once assembled to praise the Russian language, or Nekrasov to praise Mother Russia: great, powerful, abundant, highly ramified, multiform, wide-sweeping 58, which summed up the world not so much through the exact terms of its sections as in their extended dialectical interpretation. |
 | | Article 19 ("intention") specifies that an attempted offense, or preparations for an offense, should be punished just as severely as a completed offense. |
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