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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 75. Chapters: Gulag, Soviet special camps, Buchenwald concentration camp, The Gulag Archipelago, Baikal Amur Mainline, Ninth Fort, Sharashka, Kolyma, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, List of Gulag camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, White Sea - Baltic Canal, NKVD special camps, Nazino affair, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Anne Applebaum, Volga-Don Canal, Isaiah Oggins, The First Circle, Article 58, SS Dzhurma, Salekhard-Igarka Railway, Sakhalin Tunnel, Eduard Berzin, Dalstroy, SS Indigirka, M56 Kolyma highway, MV Sovetskaya Latviya, Vorkuta, Solovki prison camp, Katorga, Solovetsky Islands, Butugichag, Ekibastuz, Svirlag, Kotlas, GULAG Operation, Vorkuta Gulag, Sevvostlag, Julius Margolin, Alexander Ogorodnikov, Church of the Nativity, Sukhanovka, Nordvik, Maria Pronchishcheva Bay, Ivan Fedorovich Nikishov, NKVD special camp Nr. 7, Kishka, KGB victim memorials, Norillag, Bakal, With God in Russia, Nordvik Bay, David Rousset, The Vietnamese Gulag, Zoltan Szalkai, Kengir, Bamlag, Journey Back to Youth, Amurlag, Karlag, Bolshaya Muksalma. Excerpt: The Gulag (Russian: , tr. GULag, IPA: ) was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment, and the Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. GULag is the acronym for Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies (Russian: , tr. Glavnoye upravlyeniye ispravityel'no-trudovih lagyeryey i koloniy) of the NKVD. It was officially created on April 25, 1930 and dissolved on January 13, 1960. Eventually, by metonymy, the usage of "the Gulag" began generally d...
