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noun - a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
A network of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.
A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
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Felix E. Dzerzhinsky oversaw the system of forced labor camps now known by this Russian name |
It's the abbreviated form of the Russian for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps" |
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a Russian prison camp for political prisoners |
severe work prisons for people found guilty of crimes against their country |
A system of labour camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died. |
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union. |
A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents. |
A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp. |
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The Gulag (, UK also ; Russian: [lak] ( listen), acronym of , "Main Camps' Administration" or "Chief Administration of [Corrective Labor] Camps") was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system that was created under Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the 1950s. The term is also commonly used in the English language to refer to any forced-labor camp in the Soviet Union, including camps which existed in post-Stalin times. The camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners. Large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. * The agency's full name was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Settlements (Glavnoye upravleniye ispravityelno-trudovykh lagerey i koloniy). It was administered first by t |