Florence Pernel
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Gulag: The History: With Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg. Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
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The word “Gulag” is an acronym for the Russian phrase Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, took control of the Soviet Union. When Lenin died of a stroke in 1924, Joseph Stalinpropelled his way to power and became dictator. The Gulag was...
The first group of prisoners at Gulag camps included common criminals and prosperous peasants, known as kulaks. Many kulaks were arrested when they revolted against collectivization, a policy enforced by the Soviet government that demanded peasant farmers give up their individual farms and join collective farming. When Stalin launched his purges, a...
Prisoners at the Gulag camps were forced to work on large-scale construction, mining and industrial projects. The type of industry depended on the camp’s location and the area’s needs. Gulag labor crews worked on several massive Soviet endeavors, including the Moscow-Volga Canal, the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Kolyma Highway. Prisoners were giv...
Prisoners in the Gulag were given sentences, and if they survived the term, they were permitted to leave camp. For example, family members of a suspected traitor would receive a minimum sentence of five to eight years of labor. If they worked extremely hard and surpassed their quotas, some prisoners qualified for early release. Between 1934 and 195...
The Gulag started to weaken immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953. Within days, millions of prisoners were released. Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, was a staunch critic of the camps, the purges and most of Stalin’s policies. But, the camps didn’t disappear completely. Some were restructured to serve as prisons for criminals, democratic a...
The true horrors of the Gulag system were revealed belatedly: Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, state archives were sealed. Unlike the Holocaust camps in Europe during World War II, no film or images of the Gulag camps were available to the public. In 1973, The Gulag Archipelago was publishedin the West by Russian historian and Gulag sur...
Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy, A Project of the National Park Service and the National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University. Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. GulagHistory.org. The Gulag Collection, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 13 Stomach-Churning Facts About Being Held Pris...
Jun 21, 2024 · The Gulag was a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons. From the 1920s to the mid-1950s it housed political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people.
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The Gulag spanned nearly four decades of Soviet and East European history and affected millions of individuals. Its cultural impact was enormous. The Gulag has become a major influence on contemporary Russian thinking, and an important part of modern Russian folklore.
Apr 9, 2004 · In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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The Gulag in the turmoil of the "Great Terror" and war (1937-1945).
Gulag: The History. Top-rated. Tue, Feb 4, 2020. S1.E1. Origines : 1917-1933. From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936). 8.2/10. Rate. Top-rated. Tue, Feb 4, 2020. S1.E3. Apogée et agonie : 1945-1957. The Gulag's peak and decline (1945-1953). 8.1/10. Rate. Seasons Years Top-rated. 2020. Top-rated.
