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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: The Gulag Museum - Introduction: Stalins Gulag.	Yamini Chauhan	Jan 16, 2025
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Soviet Gulagan Archipelago?	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - The Soviet Gulagan Archipelago?	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: CORE - The Economics of the Gulag.	Grace Young	Aug 01, 2024
	Add new Web site: Wilson Center - Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society.	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 29, 2024
	Links added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Sep 08, 2023
	Add new Web site: Chicago Public Library - The Gulag.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 18, 2023
	Add new Web site: Russiapedia - Of Russian origin: The Gulag.	Emily Rodriguez	Jun 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: The Gulag Museum - Introduction: Stalins Gulag.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 28, 2023
	Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - GULAG Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 06, 2023
	Add new Web site: University of Houston - An introduction to the economics of the Gulag.	Emily Rodriguez	Sep 06, 2022
	Top Questions updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 28, 2021
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Mar 02, 2021
	Cross-references added.	Michael Ray	Jan 03, 2020
	Revised estimated count of those killed in the Gulag.	Michael Ray	Apr 02, 2019
	Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - The GULAG.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 31, 2018
	Media added.	Michael Ray	Sep 28, 2017
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998