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- a system of harsh labour camps maintained in the Soviet Union 1930–55.→ Gulag
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The Gulag Archipelago — ( ru. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the… … Wikipedia
Gulag — (russisch Главное управление лагерей/ oder Главное управление исправительно трудовых лагерей и колоний Glawnoje uprawlenije isprawitelno trudowych lagerej i kolonij anhören?/i) – auch GULag – ist … Deutsch Wikipedia
Gulag — The term “gulag” refers to the government agency that administered the system of penal labor camps in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The word is an acronym for “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies”… … Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation
Gulag (disambiguation) — The main Gulag article is about the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union.Other uses: * Gulag (film) ndash; 1985 film by Roger Young starring David Keith * The Gulag Archipelago ndash; a book by Aleksandr… … Wikipedia
The Vietnamese Gulag — is a book comparing post war Vietnam to an archipelago of prison camps, along the lines of the description of the Soviet Union in The Gulag Archipelago . A revolution betrayed the shocking first person chronicle of a former supporter of the… … Wikipedia
GULAG — The term gulag is derived from Glavnoye upravleniye ispravitel’no trudovykh lagerei, or Chief Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described the… … Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Gulag Orkestar — Альбом Beirut … Википедия
Gulag Orkestar — Álbum de Beirut Publicación 9 de mayo de 2006 Género(s) Folk Neo Balkan Duración 37:25 Discográfica … Wikipedia Español
The Black Book of Communism — The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a book which describes a history of repressions, both political and civilian, by Communist states, including extrajudicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines. The book was… … Wikipedia
gulag — [go͞o′läg΄, go͞o′lag΄] n. [< Russ acronym for G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel no trudovykh) lag(erei), Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps: term popularized by The Gulag Archipelago by A. SOLZHENITSYN Aleksandr (Isayevich)] 1.… … English World dictionary
