Gulag system

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The Gulag system was a vast network of Soviet forced labor camps notorious for brutal conditions, political repression, and mass incarceration under Joseph Stalin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf instrument of political repression ⓘ
penal system ⓘ
system of forced labor camps ⓘ
administeredBy GULAG ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system

Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
associatedWithEvent Great Purge ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ
postwar repression ⓘ
characterizedBy brutal treatment ⓘ
disease ⓘ
forced labor quotas ⓘ
harsh climatic conditions ⓘ
high mortality ⓘ
malnutrition ⓘ
overcrowding ⓘ
political indoctrination ⓘ
continuedInModifiedFormAfter death of Joseph Stalin ⓘ
country Soviet Union ⓘ
documentedBy Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ⓘ
documentedIn The Gulag Archipelago ⓘ
endTime 1950s ⓘ
estimatedPrisonerCount millions ⓘ
formalAbolition 1960 ⓘ
fullName Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey ⓘ
Main Camp Administration ⓘ
hasEffect demographic loss ⓘ
mass incarceration ⓘ
psychological trauma ⓘ
suppression of civil liberties ⓘ
historicalPeriod Stalin era ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
Stalinism ⓘ
linked to: Stalin era
influencedBy Soviet industrialization policies ⓘ
security concerns of Soviet leadership ⓘ
languageOfAcronym Russian ⓘ
locatedIn Central Asia ⓘ
Russian Far East ⓘ
linked to: Russia Far East

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Russian SFSR

Siberia ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
notableCamp Kolyma camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system

Norilsk camps ⓘ
Solovki prison camp ⓘ
Vorkuta camps ⓘ
notableProjectType canal construction ⓘ
industrial construction ⓘ
logging ⓘ
mining ⓘ
railway construction ⓘ
operatedBy MVD ⓘ
NKVD ⓘ
Soviet government ⓘ
partOf Soviet penal system ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
peakIncarcerationPeriod early 1950s ⓘ
late 1930s ⓘ
recognizedAs crime against humanity by many historians ⓘ
significantExpansion 1930s ⓘ
significantExpansionUnder Joseph Stalin ⓘ
startTime 1920s ⓘ
usedFor collectivization enforcement ⓘ
economic exploitation ⓘ
forced labor ⓘ
political repression ⓘ
punishment of criminals ⓘ
punishment of political prisoners ⓘ
suppression of dissent ⓘ
victimGroup ethnic minorities ⓘ
kulaks ⓘ
ordinary criminals ⓘ
political opponents ⓘ
prisoners of war ⓘ
religious believers ⓘ

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Uncle Joe → associatedWithPolicy → Gulag system ⓘ
Stalin era → characterizedBy → Gulag labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag system → partOf → Soviet penal system ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag system → administeredBy → Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag system → administeredBy → GULAG ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag system → notableCamp → Kolyma camps ⓘ
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Memorial → focusesOn → Gulag system ⓘ
subject linked to: Memorial (human rights group)
Magadan → associatedWith → Gulag labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Stalinist repressions → hasPart → Gulag system ⓘ
A World Apart → mainSubject → Soviet Gulag ⓘ
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A World Apart → setting → Gulag labor camp ⓘ
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Polish POWs → someTransferredTo → Soviet Gulag system ⓘ
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Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → shortName → GULag ⓘ
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Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → abbreviation → GULag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
MVD → administered → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Main Camp Administration → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Main Camp Administration → governs → Gulag camp network ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
The Gulag Archipelago → subject → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Vorkuta camps → partOf → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Solovki prison camp → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Norilsk camps → partOf → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Norilsk camps → partOf → Soviet forced-labor camp network ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Komi ASSR → usedFor → Gulag labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Komi ASSR → securityOrganPresence → Gulag system ⓘ
Merab Kostava → imprisonedIn → Soviet labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR → oversaw → Gulag system (in certain periods) ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Magadan Oblast → hasHistoricalSystem → Gulag camp network ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Kazakh SSR → hostedFacility → Gulag labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Dalstroy → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Kolyma Highway → associatedWith → Soviet labor camps ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag museums → hasMainTheme → Soviet forced labor camp system ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gulag museums → associatedWith → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Soviet NKVD special camp → partOf → Soviet Gulag system (broad sense) ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Yevgeny Ginzburg → subjectOf → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Kolyma Tales → mainSubject → Soviet Gulag ⓘ
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Orlando Figes → hasWrittenAbout → Gulag ⓘ
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KarLag system of Gulag camps → partOf → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński → participantIn → Soviet Gulag system (as prisoner) ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Main Administration of Camps → alsoKnownAs → Gulag administration ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Catherine Breshkovsky → residence → Siberian exile settlements ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system
Vorkuta uprising of 1953 → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Solovetsky Monastery → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Soviet state security organs → supervised → Gulag ⓘ
linked to: Gulag system