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Geography
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Overview
- Labor camps Labor camp
- USSR Soviet Union
- Soviet secret police Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
- Joseph Stalin
- Soviet era History of the Soviet Union
- Correctional Labour Camps Correctional Labour Camp
- Political repression in the Soviet Union
- Political prisoners Political prisoner
- NKVD troikas NKVD troika
- Extrajudicial punishment
- OGPU Joint State Political Directorate
- NKVD
- Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)
- Internment
- Death of Stalin Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
- Mass general amnesty Amnesty of 1953
- Nikita Khrushchev
- First Secretary General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- De-Stalinization
- Khrushchev Thaw
- Rehabilitation Rehabilitation (Soviet)
- Penal labor
- Russian Federation
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- The Gulag Archipelago
- A chain of islands Archipelago
- Kazakhstan
- Karaganda
- Norilsk
Etymology
- Correctional Labour Camps Correctional labour camp
- Politburo Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Prison
- Unfree labor
- North Korea's Gulag Prisons in North Korea
History
- Tsar Tsardom of Russia
- Russian Empire
- Exile
- Forced labour
- Katorga
- Anne Applebaum
- Siberia
- Decembrist revolt
- Polish nobles who resisted Russian rule Sybirak
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Bolsheviks
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
- Russian Far East
- Russian Civil War
- Cheka
- Dictatorship of the proletariat
- Solovki prison camp
- Terrorism and Communism
- Nazi concentration camps
- World War I
- State Political Directorate
- Sovnarkom
- Naftaly Frenkel
- Genrikh Yagoda
- Lenin's death in 1924 Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin
- Collectivization Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- Kulaks Kulak
- Capitalists Capitalism
Death toll
Conditions
- Famines Droughts and famines in Russia and the USSR
- Victor Herman
- Burepolom Burepolom?action=edit&redlink=1
- Ru Буреполом
- Nuksha Nuksha?action=edit&redlink=1
- Ru Нукша
- Vyatka Kirov, Kirov Oblast
- State farm Sovkhoz
- Andrei Vyshinsky
- Nikolai Yezhov
- Yevgenia Ginzburg
- Production quota
- Shock workers Udarnik
- Stakhanovites Stakhanovite movement
- Bonds Bond (finance)
- Robert W. Thurston
- Football Soccer
- Osadniks Osadnik
- Ukazniks Ukaznik
- Ukases Ukase
- Law of Spikelets
- Criminal law
- Thieves in law
- Soviet famine of 1932–1933
- Soviet Uzbekistan
- Logging
- Runaway Fugitive
Geography
- Solovetsky Islands
- White Sea
- Colloquial
- Vernacular
- Synonym
- Class enemies Class enemy
- Maxim Gorky
- White Sea–Baltic Canal
- Baikal–Amur Mainline
- Moscow Metro
- Moscow State University
- War-time World War II
- Sevvostlag
- Norillag
- Steppes Steppe
- Luglag Luglag?action=edit&redlink=1
- Steplag
- Peschanlag Peschanlag?action=edit&redlink=1
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- Hungary Hungarian People's Republic
- Poland Polish People's Republic
- Mongolia Mongolian People's Republic
Personnel
Special institutions
- Spassk
- Family members of "Traitors of the Motherland" Traitor of Motherland Family Member
- Sharashka
Prisoner-of-war and internee affairs
- Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees
- MVD Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
- Civilian internees Civilian internee
- Foreign forced labor in the Soviet Union
Historiography
- Moral explanation
- Robert Conquest
- Hannah Arendt
- Totalitarian
- OGPU
- MGB Ministry for State Security (USSR)
- State Archive of the Russian Federation
- Glasnost
- Democratization
- Putin administration
- Lev Razgon
- KGB
- Nicolas Werth
- Dissolution of the USSR Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Stephen Wheatcroft
Impact
- Free settlement
- Exile settlers Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union
- Vorkuta Vorkuta Gulag
Memorials
- Lubyanka Square
- Day of Victims of the Repression (October 30) Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions
- Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
- Gulag History Museum Gulag History Museum?action=edit&redlink=1
- Ru Музей истории ГУЛАГа
- Museum of Moscow
- Genocide of the Soviet People
Articles
- Viola, Lynne Lynne Viola
- Canadian Slavonic Papers
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- The Russian Review
- Kritika Kritika (journal)
Fiction
- Amirejibi, Chabua Chabua Amirejibi
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Amis, Martin Martin Amis
- House of Meetings
- Booth, Martin Martin Booth
- Huseyn, Mehdi Mehdi Huseyn
- Azerbaijan International
- Müller, Herta Herta Müller
- Everything I Possess I Carry With Me
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- In the First Circle The First Circle
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Nodes256
Edges255
Triples507
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007813
Components1
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Top relations
related to Further reading · 157
Gulag → Adam, Aleksandr, Allen Lane, An Encyclopedia Dictionary, Anne, Applebaum, Arch, Archived, Ausnutzung, Azerbaijan International, Beispiel Norilsk, Bolsheviks, Boston, Broadway Books, Cannibal Island, Ciszek, Communism, Comparison, Connecticut, Consensual
related to Articles · 42
Gulag → Alan, Archipelago, Balance, Barenberg, Bell, Beyond Space, Biopolitics, Camps, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Convoyed Prisoners, Dan, De, Disabled Prisoners, Hardy, Healey, Jeffrey, Kravchuk, Kritika, Laboratorium, Lives
related to Fiction · 42
Gulag → Aleksandr, Amirejibi, Amis, AZER, Azerbaijan International, Azerbaijani Writer, Azeri, Booth, Carry With Me, Chabua, Dewi Lewis Publishing, English, Everything, First, First Circle, Georgia, Gora Mborgali, Herta, House, Huseyn
related to External links · 35
Gulag → Blinken Open Society ArchivesThe, Center, CongressBrutal, Danzig Baldaev, Drawings, European Memories, Forced Labor Camps, George Mason UniversityGulag, GULAG History Museum Archived, GulagGulag, History, January, Library, Many Days, Many Lives, Map, Memory, MoscowSound Archives, New Media, Northwest Russia
related to Prisoner-of-war and internee affairs · 26
Gulag → According, Affairs, Camp, During World War II, Geneva Conventions, German, Glavnoye, GUPVI, GUPVI's, However, Internees, Main Administration, MVD, NKVD, Officials, POW, POWs, Prisoners, Soviet, Soviet Germany
related to Archival documents · 25
Gulag → Amid, Central State Archive, CSAOR, However, In, It, Leonid Lopatnikov, MGB, MVD, NKVD, October Revolution, OGPU, OGPU-NKVD-MGB-MVD, On, Pressure, Putin, Russian, Russian Federation, State Archive, Statistical
related to Geography · 20
Gulag → Even, Eventually, Gorky, Gorky's, In, Initially, It, Local, Maxim Gorky, Part, Po Soiuzu Sovetov, Remote, Revolution, Russian, Solovetsky Islands, Solovki, Some, Soviet, The, White Sea
related to World War II aftermath · 18
Gulag → Amounting, Another, Defense, February, May, NKVD, October, Officers, Ostarbeiters, People's Commissariat, Personnel, Rank-and-file, Soviet, The, The Allies, Those, World War II, Yalta Conference
related to Formation and expansion during Stalin's rule · 15
Gulag → After Lenin's, By, Collectivisation, However, In, NKVD, On June, Politburo, Prisoners, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, The, The Gulag, These
related to Memorials · 15
Gulag → Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Both Moscow, Day, Lubyanka Square, Moscow, Moscow's, NKVD, October, People, Petersburg, Repression, Solovki, St, State Gulag Museum, Victims
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Important terminology
camps prisoners soviet labor system camp political nkvd war isbn prison people union forced russian number population million also colonies
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergo Ordzhonikidze | instance of | including Bolsheviks | 0.80 | text |
| Vladimir Lenin | instance of | including Bolsheviks | 0.80 | text |
| Leon Trotsky | instance of | including Bolsheviks | 0.80 | text |
| and Joseph Stalin were also sent into exile | instance of | including Bolsheviks | 0.80 | text |
| Sachsenhausen | instance of | or Nazi concentration camps | 0.80 | text |
| Perm-36 | instance of | some human rights activists accused the Russian authorities of gradually removing Gulag remembrance from places | 0.80 | text |
| the Solovki prison camp.According to Encyclopædia Britannica | instance of | some human rights activists accused the Russian authorities of gradually removing Gulag remembrance from places | 0.80 | text |
| .mw-parser-output .templatequote | instance of | some human rights activists accused the Russian authorities of gradually removing Gulag remembrance from places | 0.80 | text |
| 'Solovki' were absolutely necessary | instance of | camps | 0.80 | text |
| Gulag | related to Archival documents | Statistical | 0.60 | section |
| Gulag | related to Archival documents | OGPU | 0.60 | section |
| Gulag | related to Archival documents | NKVD | 0.60 | section |
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