WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What was the Gulag ? 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Introduction: Stalin’s Gulag The term “ GULAG ” is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps), that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Russian penal colony is essentially a labor camp where prisoners are kept in barracks rather than individual cells. Inmates are forced to work daily, often with textiles. Colonies are divided into four security categories, and inmates are assigned to colonies based on the severity of the crimes they have committed.