Gulag system

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instrument of political repression penal system system of forced labor camps

The Gulag system was a vast network of Soviet forced labor camps notorious for brutal conditions, political repression, and mass incarceration under Joseph Stalin.

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All labels observed (21)

Label Occurrences
Gulag system canonical 18
Gulag 10
Gulag labor camps 4

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf instrument of political repression ⓘ
penal system ⓘ
system of forced labor camps ⓘ
administeredBy Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: GULAG

Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps
associatedWithEvent Great Purge ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ
postwar repression ⓘ
characterizedBy brutal treatment ⓘ
disease ⓘ
forced labor quotas ⓘ
harsh climatic conditions ⓘ
high mortality ⓘ
malnutrition ⓘ
overcrowding ⓘ
political indoctrination ⓘ
continuedInModifiedFormAfter death of Joseph Stalin ⓘ
country Soviet Union ⓘ
documentedBy Alexander Solzhenitsyn ⓘ
surface form: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
documentedIn The Gulag Archipelago ⓘ
endTime 1950s ⓘ
estimatedPrisonerCount millions ⓘ
formalAbolition 1960 ⓘ
fullName Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey ⓘ
Main Camp Administration ⓘ
hasEffect demographic loss ⓘ
mass incarceration ⓘ
psychological trauma ⓘ
suppression of civil liberties ⓘ
historicalPeriod Stalin era ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
Stalin era ⓘ
surface form: Stalinism
influencedBy Soviet industrialization policies ⓘ
security concerns of Soviet leadership ⓘ
languageOfAcronym Russian ⓘ
locatedIn Central Asia ⓘ
Russia Far East ⓘ
surface form: Russian Far East

Russian SFSR ⓘ
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Siberia ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
notableCamp Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kolyma camps

Norilsk camps ⓘ
Solovki prison camp ⓘ
Vorkuta camps ⓘ
notableProjectType canal construction ⓘ
industrial construction ⓘ
logging ⓘ
mining ⓘ
railway construction ⓘ
operatedBy MVD ⓘ
NKVD ⓘ
Soviet government ⓘ
partOf Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Soviet penal system
peakIncarcerationPeriod early 1950s ⓘ
late 1930s ⓘ
recognizedAs crime against humanity by many historians ⓘ
significantExpansion 1930s ⓘ
significantExpansionUnder Joseph Stalin ⓘ
startTime 1920s ⓘ
usedFor collectivization enforcement ⓘ
economic exploitation ⓘ
forced labor ⓘ
political repression ⓘ
punishment of criminals ⓘ
punishment of political prisoners ⓘ
suppression of dissent ⓘ
victimGroup ethnic minorities ⓘ
kulaks ⓘ
ordinary criminals ⓘ
political opponents ⓘ
prisoners of war ⓘ
religious believers ⓘ

Referenced by (55)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uncle Joe → associatedWithPolicy → Gulag system ⓘ
Stalin era → characterizedBy → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag labor camps
Gulag system → partOf → Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet penal system
Gulag system → administeredBy → Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps
Gulag system → administeredBy → Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: GULAG
Gulag system → notableCamp → Gulag system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kolyma camps
Memorial (human rights group) → focusesOn → Gulag system ⓘ
subject surface form: Memorial
Magadan → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag labor camps
Stalinist repressions → hasPart → Gulag system ⓘ
A World Apart → mainSubject → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag
A World Apart → setting → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag labor camp
Polish POWs → someTransferredTo → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag system
Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → shortName → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: GULag
Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → administered → Gulag system ⓘ
Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → abbreviation → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: GULag
MVD → administered → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Main Camp Administration → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Main Camp Administration → governs → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag camp network
The Gulag Archipelago → subject → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Vorkuta camps → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Solovki prison camp → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Norilsk camps → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Norilsk camps → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet forced-labor camp network
Komi ASSR → usedFor → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag labor camps
Komi ASSR → securityOrganPresence → Gulag system ⓘ
Beria period of the NKVD → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
Merab Kostava → imprisonedIn → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet labor camps
New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR → oversaw → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag system (in certain periods)
Magadan Oblast → hasHistoricalSystem → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag camp network
Kazakh SSR → hostedFacility → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag labor camps
Dalstroy → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Kolyma Highway → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet labor camps
Gulag museums → hasMainTheme → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet forced labor camp system
Gulag museums → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Soviet NKVD special camp → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag system (broad sense)
Yevgeny Ginzburg → subjectOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Kolyma River basin → historicalAssociation → Gulag system ⓘ
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR → associatedWith → Gulag system ⓘ
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich → theme → Gulag system ⓘ
Kolyma Tales → mainSubject → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag
Orlando Figes → hasWrittenAbout → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
KarLag system of Gulag camps → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński → participantIn → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag system (as prisoner)
Main Administration of Camps → administered → Gulag system ⓘ
Main Administration of Camps → alsoKnownAs → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag administration
Catherine Breshkovsky → residence → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Siberian exile settlements
Vorkuta uprising of 1953 → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Solovetsky Monastery → partOf → Gulag system ⓘ
Soviet state security organs → supervised → Gulag system ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gulag