Main Administration of Camps (GULAG)

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
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