Penal servitude (Katorga) and exile in 60–70th years of the 19th century. General criminal laws and regulations on political exiles

The article considers an issue of legislative regulation of political penal servitude and exile to Siberia on the example of the post-reform period in the 60–70s of the 19th century. in the dichotomy of general criminal laws and rules about political exiles. The author proves in the article that the interpretation of the Siberian exile by the past and present historians of the forms and methods of legal regulation, the prevailing views and assessments by researchers of the legal norms value are far from the realities of the times of political penal servitude and exile in the post-reform era.

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