列宁被囚禁的时代,正是沙皇俄国对待政治犯最为宽松的时期。作家索尔仁尼琴曾将俄国的监狱制度比喻成维护政权的牛角,它的尖端,也即它最锋利,最残酷的时代,是19世纪70和80年代。而越向后,监狱管理越宽松,囚犯待遇越好。到了19世纪末20世纪初,这只牛角“渐渐地变圆了、变秃了,朝着基部越缩越短,直到变得一点也不像一只犄角,只剩下一个毛茸茸的底座儿”。也就是说,相比于它最残酷的时期,此时的监狱几乎成为 The time Lenin was imprisoned was precisely the period when Tsarist Russia was most relaxed about political prisoners. The writer Solzhenitsyn has compared the prison system in Russia to the horns of safeguarding the political power. Its cutting edge, that is, its sharpest and most cruel era was the 1970s and 1980s. The more backward, the more relaxed prison management prisoners better treatment. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the horn “gradually rounded, bald, shorter and shorter toward the base until it was not at all horns, leaving only a furry pedestal ”. That is to say, the prison at this time almost becomes compared to its most cruel period