Gulag



Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is system of concentration camps and prisons extended in the USSR since the creation in 1917-1818.

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Gulag, abbreviation of Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey, (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”), the system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed the political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height the Gulag imprisoned millions of people. The name Gulag had been largely unknown in the West until the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956 (1973), whose title likens the labour camps scattered through the Soviet Union to an island chain. ..

Keywords
Bolschevism, Communism, Fascism, Genocide, Inquisition, Slavery, Terror, USSR