Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1970s
Gulag
from ГУЛАГ
- Meaning
- Acronym for Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey — the Soviet forced-labour camp system.
- Source word
- ГУЛАГ
- Route into English
- Solzhenitsyn's 1973 *The Gulag Archipelago* fixed the word in Western consciousness.
- Arrived
- 1970s
English borrows.
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