To what does the term gulag refer?
A)The first collective farms in the Soviet Union.
B)Forced-labor camps populated by political prisoners of Stalin's government.
C)Stalin's institutional replacement for the rural Soviets.
D)The technical term for Stalin's first Five-Year Plan as it applied to industry.
E)Prisoner-of-war camps for "White" Russian partisans during the Civil War.

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The term gulag refers to forced-labor camps populated by political prisoners of Stalin's government. These camps were notorious for their harsh conditions and high mortality rates.

To What Does the Term Gulag Refer