Gulag system

Gulag system

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  • gulag — system of prisons and labor camps, especially for political detainees, in the former Soviet Union; rough acronym from Rus. Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel no trudovykh lagerei Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, set up in 1931 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Gulag — For other uses, see Gulag (disambiguation). The integrated map of the Gulag camps, which existed from 1923 to 1961, based on data from the Human Rights Society «Memorial» …   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 —    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 — (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 — ► NOUN (the Gulag) ▪ a system of harsh labour camps maintained in the Soviet Union 1930 1955. ORIGIN Russian, from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel no trudovykh) lag(ere ) «Chief Administration for Corrective Labour Camps» …   English terms dictionary

  • 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

  • gułag — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 8}}rz. mnż IIa, D. u {{/stl 8}}{{stl 7}} obóz pracy przymusowej w byłym ZSRR; także: system tych obozów : {{/stl 7}}{{stl 10}}Dziesięć lat gułagu. Miliony ludzi zginęły w gułagach. Archipelag gułagów był państwem w państwie.… …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

  • GULAG — Ein Wachturm des „Projekt 503“ im Plan Stalins, eine Eisenbahnstrecke durch die Taiga bauen zu lassen, die den Norden Sibiriens erschließen sollte. Etwa eine Flugstunde von Turuchansk (65°51 N – 88°04 E) am nördlichen Polarkreis ent …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • GULag — Ein Wachturm des „Projekt 503“ im Plan Stalins, eine Eisenbahnstrecke durch die Taiga bauen zu lassen, die den Norden Sibiriens erschließen sollte. Etwa eine Flugstunde von Turuchansk (65°51 N – 88°04 E) am nördlichen Polarkreis ent …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • gulag — /gooh lahg/, n. (sometimes cap.) 1. the system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. 2. a Soviet forced labor camp. 3. any prison or detention camp, esp. for political prisoners. [1970 75; < Russ Gulág, acronym from Glávnoe upravlénie… …   Universalium

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