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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 [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies, real or imagined.
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'', 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'', and became well-known by its use in the title of the compilation of personal historical accounts by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] ''The Gulag Archipelago''.