gulag

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡu.lɑɡ/, or sometimes IPAchar /ˈɡu.læɡ/

Noun

gulag (plural gulags)

1. A prison camp.
2. The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
   • One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]

Verb

gulag (gulags, present participle gulaging; past and past participle gulaged)

1. (informal, transitive) To force into this prison or a similar system.

Translations

• French: goulag
• German: Gulag, Gulag (rare), GULag
• Portuguese: gulag
• Russian: ГУЛА́Г
• Spanish: gulag

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