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The '''Gulag''' is the extensive network of prison camps used in the Soviet Union to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies, real or imagined.  

The '''Gulag''' is the extensive network of prison camps used in the Soviet Union to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies, real or imagined.  

The name derives from an acronym for the Chief Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies, ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii'', and became well known by its use in the title of the novel 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'', 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.