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Meaning of "Gulag" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GULAG

From Russian G( lavnoye) U( pravleniye Ispravitelno-Trudovykh) Lag( erei) Main Administration for Corrective Labour Camps.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GULAG

Gulag  [ˈɡuːlæɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GULAG

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gulag is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GULAG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gulag

Gulag

Soviet Union portal v t e The Gulag (Russian: ГУЛаг, tr. GULag, IPA: ( listen)) was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s until the 1950s. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union, based on Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). The term is also sometimes used to describe the camps themselves. "GULag" was the acronym for Гла́вное управле́ние лагере́й и коло́ний (Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey i koloniy), the "Main Camp Administration".

Definition of Gulag in the English dictionary

The definition of Gulag in the dictionary is the central administrative department of the Soviet security service, established in 1930, responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps. Other definition of Gulag is any system used to silence dissents.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GULAG


beflag
bɪˈflæɡ
blag
blæɡ
clag
klæɡ
cornflag
ˈkɔːnˌflæɡ
flag
flæɡ
graylag
ˈɡreɪˌlæɡ
greylag
ˈɡreɪˌlæɡ
lag
læɡ
reflag
riːˈflæɡ
rolag
ˈrəʊˌlæɡ
slag
slæɡ
stalag
ˈstælæɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GULAG

Gulbenkian
gulch
gulden
gules
gulf
Gulf Crisis
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Aegina
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Anadyr
Gulf of Argolis
Gulf of Bothnia
Gulf of California
Gulf of Cambay
Gulf of Campeche
Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulf of Chihli
Gulf of Corinth

WORDS THAT END LIKE GULAG

black flag
Blue Flag
chequered flag
corner flag
fly the flag
Green Flag
jet lag
national flag
oflag
rainbow flag
red flag
signal flag
strike the flag
sweet flag
the flag
the Red Flag
time-lag
Union flag
white flag
yellow flag

Synonyms and antonyms of Gulag in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Gulag» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GULAG

Find out the translation of Gulag to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Gulag from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Gulag» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

古拉格
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Gulag
570 millions of speakers

English

Gulag
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुलाग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معسكرات العمل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ГУЛАГ
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Gulag
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুলাগ্
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Goulag
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gulag
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gulag
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強制収容所
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강제 수용소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gulag
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Gulag
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குலாக்குக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुलाग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gulag
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Gulag
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Gułag
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ГУЛАГ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Gulag
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Γκούλαγκ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Gulag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Gulag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Gulag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Gulag

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GULAG»

The term «Gulag» is regularly used and occupies the 57.904 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GULAG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Gulag» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Gulag» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Gulag

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GULAG»

Discover the use of Gulag in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Gulag and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gulag: A History
Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Anne Applebaum, 2007
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary ...
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, 2007
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Gulag:
A Polish photographer and journalist offers 550 black-and-white photographs of life in the Soviet Gulag, including official archival snapshots showing both inmates and their captors.
Tomasz Kizny, 2004
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in ...
Evaluates the economic and political forces--from global to local--that have contributed to the buildup of inmates in the California correctional system, revealing why this state has led the way in a prison boom despite a crime rate that ...
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2007
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Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era.
Leona Toker, 2000
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau ...
Caroline Elkins, 2010
7
Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
Chronicles the author's life during his stay at the Kolyma prison camp in Siberia
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson, 1999
8
American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
"American Gulag "exposes the full story of a cruel prison system that is operating today with an astonishing lack of accountability.
Mark Dow, 2004
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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special ...
One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag.
Lynne Viola, 2007
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My Journey: How One Woman Survived Stalin's Gulag
Olga Adamova-Sliozberg’s My Journey, not officially published in Russia until 2002 and here available in English for the first time, is one of the best known of all Gulag memoirs and was one of the first to become widely available in ...
Olʹga Lʹvovna Adamova-Sliozberg, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GULAG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Gulag is used in the context of the following news items.
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North Korea Announces Criminal Amnesty
... by a UN commission concluded that conditions in normal North Korean prisons were often every bit as harsh as those in the political gulag. «Al-Manar TV, Jul 15»
2
Russia Can't Be Managed With Western Rules
Former Soviet leader Josef Stalin also succeeded, but only with the help of the gulag, mass executions and terror. Even Vladimir Lenin was ... «The Moscow Times, Jul 15»
3
'We are all Donald Trump,' Proclaims Latino Human Rights Activist
Oscar Biscet suffered longer in Fidel Castro's gulag than Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Joseph Stalin's gulag—and for essentially the ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
4
AUDIO INTERVIEW & ARTICLE: Civil War II
But if we did stuff like that, we'd be hauled off and thrown in the gulag before the day was over.” Dr. Hill explained the significance of fighting for ... «American Free Press, Jul 15»
5
Philadelphia 'lost' and found
"Missing" is in quotes since we know where they are, for the most part -- in Pennsylvania's ever-growing gulag of prisons, or dead before their ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
6
Gumnami Baba memorial to come up in Faizabad soon
... the Freedom Movement in India, The Last Days of the Raj, Moscow's Shadow Over West Bengal and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. «Times of India, Jul 15»
7
Israel Frees Khader Adnan
Israeli gulag harshness remains as brutal as ever – under its most extremist regime ever masquerading as a democratic one, something Israel ... «RINF Alternative News, Jul 15»
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North Korea announces criminal amnesty to mark 70th anniversary …
... by a UN commission concluded that conditions in normal North Korean prisons were often every bit as harsh as those in the political gulag. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
9
The Virtue of Defiance
The US, for example, has its own Gulag Archipelago, into which it processes tens of thousands of non-violent offenders who dare defy its ... «Antiwar.com, Jul 15»
10
Downers Grove, IL Writer Co-Authors True Story of a Life Lived in a …
(PRLEAP.COM) July 14, 2015 - "Life and Death in China Gulag," a new book by Zen Shanz and Don Chin, has been released by RoseDog ... «PR Leap, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Gulag [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gulag>. Apr 2024 ».
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