Editing Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (section)

==Application of the article==
[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] in his 1973 book ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' characterized the enormous scope of the article in this way:

<blockquote>One can find more epithets in praise of this article than [[Ivan Turgenev|Turgenev]] once assembled to praise the [[Russian language]], or [[Nikolay Nekrasov|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.<br />Who among us has not experienced its all-encompassing embrace? In all truth, there is no step, thought, action, or lack of action under the heavens which could not be punished by the heavy hand of Article 58.<ref>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. [[The Gulag Archipelago]]. Harper & Row, First Edition, 1973. {{ISBN|0-06-013914-5}}. Chapter 2, Page 60</ref></blockquote>

According to Solzhenitsyn, "The paragraph 58 had no minimum of age! So was it even told at the lectures on law held for the people — Tallinn, 1945. Dr Uusmaa had known a six year old boy, who was in the colony on the ground of paragraph 58 — this is obviously a record!"<ref>The Gulag Archipelago, Part 3, Chapter 17</ref>