How did the gulag start?
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/eb/article-903… You may also want to look at these sites: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhib… http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibi… Hope this helps This answer was provided by Enquire, a 24-hour, live question answering and enquiry service offered by public librarians across England and Scotland in
