Oct 16, 2023 · Gulag describes a vast network of slave labor camps operated by the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s. Ever since the Soviet Union was founded in 1917, it imprisoned people who spoke out against it.

According to the Gulag History Museum, following Yezhov’s order, 18,000 wives of arrested "traitors" were sent to prisons and camps, and more than 25,000 children placed in orphanages.

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.

A childhood with the shock of leaving home, the journey without end, the cold, the hunger, the fear, work to have an extra ration card, but also the discovery of an unknown natural world, school, friendship and games shared: that was how children grew up in the Gulag.

Mar 18, 2025 · Gulag, system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed the political prisoners and criminals of the Soviet Union. At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people.

Jun 21, 2012 · Some of these children were raised in the Gulag camps, some in state orphanages. Some were sent into exile with their families and others were left to fend for themselves on the city streets. All found themselves dispossesed, displaced, marginalised and …

May 3, 2023 · Ninth graders in a primary school in Prague’s district of Karlín are discussing what they know about the Gulag camps, the infamous Soviet labour camps where approximately 1.6 million people died...

Nov 3, 2024 · The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is a book in three volumes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The gulags were the forced labour camps in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The Gulag was a natural extension of earlier concentration camps operated in Siberia by the Imperial Russian government under the Czars, who commonly deported political activists, intellectuals, and criminals to remote forced labor camps.

Aug 21, 2023 · According to the 2010 book Children of the Gulag, of the nearly 20 million people sentenced to prison labor in the 1930s, about 40 percent were children or teenagers. Legions of homeless street kids were exiled and became prey for older, actual criminals.