Gulag
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...a department of the Soviet secret police (originally the Cheka; subsequently the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD, and finally the KGB). The Gulag was first established under Vladimir Lenin during the early Bolshevik years (c.1920). The vast penal network...