The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But even though they did not claim that the administrative penalty was a court sentence, it could be up to twenty-five years and include: Deprivation of titles, ranks, and decorations Confiscation of all property Imprisonment Deprivation of the right to correspond Thus a person could disappear from the face of the earth with the help of the OSO even more reliably than under the terms of some primitive court sentence.