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How many people were imprisoned in the Gulag Archipelago?

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According to Wikipedia's sources, about 14 million people were imprisoned in the GULAG system and its satellites between 1923 and 1953. read more

Some suggest that 14 million people were imprisoned in the Gulag labor camps from 1929 to 1953 (the estimates for the period 1918–1929 are even more difficult to calculate). Other calculations by the historian Orlando Fidesa, refer to 25 million prisoners of the Gulag in 1928–1953. read more

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. read more

The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипела́г ГУЛА́Г, Arkhipelág GULÁG) is a three-volume book written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, followed by an English translation the following year. read more

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