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Question by Rafaella: how did the gulag start?
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Answer by justin m
From 1918, camp-type detention facilities were set up, as a reformed analogy of the earlier system of penal labor operated in Siberia in Imperial Russia. Here is link listing the entire history of soviet gulags.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
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Enquire says
Hello
The Encyclopaedia Britannica website has a useful article which includes this
A system of forced-labour camps was first inaugurated by a Soviet decree of April 15, 1919, and underwent a series of administrative and organizational changes in the 1920s, ending with the founding of Gulag in 1930 under the control of the secret police, OGPU (later, the NKVD and the KGB).
For the whole article see the following page:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249117/…
You may also want to look at these sites:
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/gulag….
http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/
Hope this helps
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