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Gulag
thumb|A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands for "Glávnoye upravléniye ispravítel'no-trudovýkh lageréy " (Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере
Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
article of the Russian SFSR Penal Code to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities
David Rousset
French writer (1912-1997)
Bitch Wars
prison gang murders in the gulag system
prison labour camp
Soviet penitentiary institution
Church of the Nativity
church in Magadan, Russia
GULAG Operation
anti-Soviet military operation in Serbia