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gulag

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  1. [alsoG-] the system of prisons and labor camps, esp. for political prisoners, in the Soviet Union: with the
  2. such a prison or forced-labor camp, as in the Soviet Union
  3. any place or situation regarded as like such a prison

Origin of gulag

Russian GULAG, acronym for Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovyx lagerej, Main Administration for Corrective Labor Camps: term popularized by A. Solzhenitsyn in his multivolume work, The Gulag Archipelago


gulag

also Gu·lag

noun

  1. a. A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
    b. A labor camp in this network.
  2. a. A network of prisons used especially for political dissidents.
    b. A prison in such a network.

Origin of gulag

Russian Gulag from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh) lag(ereĭ) Chief Administration (of Correctional Labor) Camps


gulag

Noun

(plural gulags)

  1. A prison camp.
  2. A generic name for the system of all Soviet prison camps in use during the Stalinist period.
Origin

From the Russian acronym ГУЛАГ (GULAG): Главное управление исправительно-трудовых лагерей (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítel’no-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps, Main Directorate for Places of Detention, Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, etc.”).


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