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The '''Gulag''' is the extensive network of prison camps used in the Soviet Union to imprison people who opposed Marxism or failed to live up to Socialist principles.

The '''Gulag''' is the extensive network of prison camps used in the Soviet Union to imprison people who opposed Marxism or failed to live up to Socialist principles.

The name derives from an acronym for the Chief Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies, ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii'' (Russian: ''Главное управление лагерей и мест заключения''), and became well known by its use in the title of the compilation of personal historical accounts by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] ''The Gulag Archipelago''.

The name derives from an acronym for the Chief Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies, ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii'' (Russian: ''Главное управление лагерей и мест заключения''), and became well known by its use in the title of the compilation of personal historical accounts by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''.

Camps were located in every part of the country—most notoriously in cold Siberia—and slave labor was used not only for mining and heavy industries but for producing every kind of consumer product such as furniture toys, and fur hats.  

Camps were located in every part of the country—most notoriously in cold Siberia—and slave labor was used not only for mining and heavy industries but for producing every kind of consumer product such as furniture toys, and fur hats.