Soviet Gulag system

GPTKB entity

Statements (62)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf concentration camp
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:Glavnoe_Upravlenie_Lagerei
gptkbp:abolished gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite hundreds
gptkbp:category forced labor
human rights abuses
Soviet history
mass incarceration
20th-century events
political imprisonment
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:The_Gulag_Archipelago
gptkb:Kolyma_Tales
gptkbp:existedDuring 1918
gptkbp:existedUntil 1960
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soviet Gulag system
gptkbp:languageOfName gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notable_for gptkb:Józef_Czapski
gptkb:Alexander_Dolgun
gptkb:Evgenia_Ginzburg
gptkb:Janusz_Bardach
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Solovki
gptkb:Vorkuta
gptkb:Norilsk
gptkb:Kolyma
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Kengir_uprising
gptkb:Norilsk_uprising
gptkb:Vorkuta_uprising
gptkb:Solovki_special_purpose_camp
gptkbp:notableInmate gptkb:Nadezhda_Mandelstam
gptkb:Varlam_Shalamov
gptkb:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
gptkb:Lev_Kopelev
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:kulaks
gptkb:religious_organization
intellectuals
political prisoners
prisoners of war
ethnic minorities
gptkbp:numberOfPrisoners over 18 million
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:NKVD
gptkbp:oversees gptkb:Main_Administration_of_Camps_(GULAG)
gptkbp:peakPeriod 1930s
1940s
gptkbp:populationPeak 1950s
gptkbp:purpose gptkb:political_repression
economic development
forced labor
punishment
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Great_Purge
gptkb:Stalinism
Soviet political repression
gptkbp:usedFor agriculture
mining
logging
railroad construction
industrial projects
canal building
military projects
gptkbp:victim at least 1 million
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Solovetsky_Monastery_complex
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7