Main Camp Administration

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Main Camp Administration was the central governing body that oversaw and managed the network of forced labor camps within the Soviet Gulag system.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gulag administrative body
Soviet government agency
appliesTo criminal prisoners
forced labor camps
political prisoners
country Soviet Union
field forced labor management
penal administration
governs Gulag camp network
camp administrative staff
camp commanders
hasEffect high prisoner mortality
mass incarceration
systematic human rights abuses
locatedIn Moscow
partOf Gulag system
responsibleFor allocation of prisoners to camps
camp organization
camp regulations
coordination of economic use of forced labor
implementation of state directives in camps
reporting on camp productivity
role central governing body of Gulag forced labor camps
management of Gulag camp system
oversight of network of forced labor camps
subordinateTo NKVD
Soviet security apparatus
timePeriod 20th century
Stalin era
uses forced labor

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Gulag system
fullName

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