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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
  2. n. A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
  3. n. A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A prison camp.
  2. n. A generic name for the system of all Soviet prison camps in use during the Stalinist period.

Etymologies

  1. From the Russian acronym ГУЛАГ: Главное управление исправительно-трудовых лагерей (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítel’no-trudovýx lageréj, "Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps, Main Directorate for Places of Detention, Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, etc.") (Wiktionary)
  2. Russian Gulag, from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh) lag(ereĭ), Chief Administration (of Correctional Labor) Camps. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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