- 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...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, with his 1973 masterpiece, 'The
Gulag Archipelago.' ... Today, Russia's
gulags are long gone, as is the
Communist Party of the Soviet...
- Look up
gulag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
Gulag was the
government agency that
administered the
penal labor camps of the
Soviet Union. It...
- the
Gulags were
branded as
traitors regardless of
their social standing or connections. Applebaum's
introduction begins by
defining the
acronym "
Gulag",...
- This
comparison of Guantánamo Bay to the
Gulag system was met by
criticism of
Amnesty International."American
Gulag". The
Washington Post. 26 May 2005. Archived...
- the
Gulag with "other
forms of
slave labor" and
notes its "violence of
human exploitation" in
Illness and
Inhumanity in Stalin's
Gulag: Stalin's
Gulag was...
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influenced the Cold War were the
detention of
several hundred Americans in
Gulags, in
addition to the
obstacles in
returning some 2,000
American POWs out...
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Gulag Orkestar is the
debut album of Beirut. It was
recorded in 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
Gulag was a
Soviet government agency administering...
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execution or
indefinite exile, they
would be
imprisoned in
Gulags all over the USSR. Stalin's
Gulag system provided slave labour,
hastening the development...
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global awareness of
political repression in the
Soviet Union,
especially the
Gulag prison system. He was
awarded the 1970
Nobel Prize in
Literature "for the...
