Gulag: A History | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Introduction Abstract

* The name GULAG is explained to the reader as an acronym that has come to be synonymous with the forced labor camps in Russia that operated from 1918 through the mid-1980s.
* As many as 18 million people passed through the 84 labor camps in Russia between 1920 and 1950....
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