THE RUSSIAN GULAG

GULAG AND LEGACY/DAY 1 PACKET

• Between 1931-1953, 3,778,234 people were arrested for counterrevolutionary crimes
• Of those 3 million 786, 098 were shot
• Between 1929-1953 18 million people passed through camps
• 6 million people were also exiled
• Joseph Stalin's real name is Iosef Dzhugashvili

DAILY LIFE/DAY 2 PACKET

• Arrest procedures deteriorated considerably due to pressure from above
• A criminal camp near Krasnoyarsk is home home to one of Soviets nuclear reactors
• Police cells are overcrowded by 200-400 percent
• The cells built for 470 prisoners contained 1715 inmates
• Torture was one of the primary tools used by the secret police

DE-STALINIZATION/DAY 3 PACKET

• There were 2,526,402 people killed in prison camps in the Gulag.
• Nikita Khrushchev tried to get out the word about the camps to the citizens of Russia but Stalin did not want the word out.
• There was no public discussion dealing with the Gulag in the 1970s and until the 1980s.
• The Soviet Constitution of 1936 actually did guarantee what we consider basic human rights.
• Even from all the harm Stalin had caused he still remains so popular because of his propaganda put out about him.

FURTHER RESEARCH

• GULAG was the acronym for the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps
• Gulag women lived in overcrowded, poorly heated barracks.
• Prisoners typically lived in a camp zone surrounded by a fence or barbed wire, overlooked by watch towers.

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