THE GULAG

DAILY LIFE

• Most people that were arrested were only accused and had to sign a "confession"
• The confessions that had to be signed usually were lies.
• If the confessions weren't signed they went through torture until they submitted.
• Torture they went through consists of being burned, beaten, frozen, raped, and cut.
• After the torture they were made to run around on their swollen feet and stand in standing cells

DE-STALINIZATION AND THE LEGACY OF THE GULAG

• Alexander Esenin-volpin was a main figure in getting information about The Gulag's public knowledge.
• Mikhail Gorbacheu was the leader who admitted that The Gulag was bad and allowed it to be public.
• Joseph Stalin successor was Nikita Khrushchev.
• Nikita Khrushchev was the founder if De-Stalinization
• In 1961 Stalins body was removed from the Lenin Mausulem due to De-Stalinization

SOVIET PRISON CAMPS AND THEIR LEGACY

• Maintaining political stability was the main goal.
• Lenin created The Gulag by his idea of communism, passing it to Stalin.
• Wives and children of Gulag I prisoners were outcastes because nobody wanted to interact with people associated with The Gulag
• Kolyma was the best known complex
• Average life span of a prisoner was one winter

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