GULAG

gulag gułag gúlag Gulag GUŁag English Etymology en ru ГУЛА́Г, the acronym of ru Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps: see the definition.Gulag n 243300 March 2019 1; Gulag n Pronunciation en /ˈɡuːlɑɡ/ sometimes /-læɡ/ /ɡuːˈlɑk/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gulag.wav Southern England en /ˈɡuˌlɑɡ/ sometimes /-ˌlæɡ/ GA en GU LAG Proper noun en historical The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960. en w:Robert Conquest In the Labour Camps The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties 1st American New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company 1968 part II (The Yezhov Years) 356 https://archive.org/details/greatterrorstali0000conq/page/356/mode/1up 405895 The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy. Translations government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps Belarusian: be ГУЛА́Г m Polish: pl GUŁag m Russian: ru ГУЛА́Г m, ru ГУЛа́г, ru Гула́г Ukrainian: uk ГУЛА́Г m, uk ГУТА́Б m Noun en gulag. en David Hosford; Pamela Kachurin; Thomas Lamont Day 1 Content Essay: The Establishment and Scope of the GULAG System GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and Their LegacyA Project of the National Park Service and the National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University https://web.archive.org/web/20211031060029/https://gulaghistory.org/nps/downloads/gulag-curriculum.pdf 31 October 2021 [U.S.A.] w:National Park Service; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University [2006?] 7 https://gulaghistory.org/nps/downloads/gulag-curriculum.pdf#page=10 1 75965285 One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. References Further reading gulag en Prison Soviet Union