Main Administration of Camps (GULAG)

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:government_agency gptkb:prison
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:GULAG
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite	hundreds
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved	1960
gptkbp:documentedIn	gptkb:The_Gulag_Archipelago gptkb:Kolyma_Tales Memoirs of former prisoners
gptkbp:established	1930
gptkbp:function	administration of forced labor camps
gptkbp:headquartersLocation	gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Main Administration of Camps (GULAG)
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Soviet Marxism-Leninism Stalinist policies
gptkbp:legacy	subject of historical research influenced human rights discourse memorialized in museums symbol of totalitarian repression
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Главное_управление_лагерей
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:de-Stalinization gptkb:Great_Terror postwar repression World War II labor mobilization
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:political_repression forced labor human rights abuses mass incarceration deportations systematic use of prison labor
gptkbp:notableInmate	gptkb:Varlam_Shalamov gptkb:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn gptkb:Natan_Sharansky
gptkbp:oversees	gptkb:Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(MVD) gptkb:People's_Commissariat_for_Internal_Affairs_(NKVD)
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:NKVD gptkb:MVD
gptkbp:populationPeak	over 2 million
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Vorkuta gptkb:Great_Purge gptkb:Stalinism gptkb:Kolyma Magadan Soviet penal system Soviet political repression
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Gulag_system
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6