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[[File:Olkhon Island gulag.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Remains of a Soviet gulag, Olkhon Island, Russia.]]
[[File:Olkhon Island gulag.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Remains of a Soviet gulag, Olkhon Island, Russia.]]
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 and other socialist societies 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]]''.