Kengir uprising | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-07-07

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00:01:47 1 Background
00:01:57 1.1 Changes in the Gulag
00:03:47 1.2 Kengir
00:03:55 1.2.1 Thieves
00:05:07 1.2.2 Informers
00:06:37 1.2.3 Weaponry and organization
00:08:21 1.2.4 The camp compound
00:08:54 2 Seizing of the camp
00:11:30 3 The new camp society
00:11:40 3.1 Culture
00:13:48 3.2 Government
00:15:28 3.2.1 Propaganda
00:18:05 3.2.2 Defense
00:19:12 3.2.3 Technical Department
00:19:56 4 Negotiations
00:22:00 4.1 Sowing discord
00:23:19 5 Suppression
00:23:28 5.1 Prelude
00:25:03 5.2 The raid
00:26:32 5.3 Aftermath
00:27:58 6 Significance
00:31:24 7 See also



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The Kengir uprising was a prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet labor camp for political prisoners Kengir (Steplag) in May and June 1954. Its duration and intensity distinguished it from other Gulag uprisings in the same period (see Vorkuta uprising).
After the murder of some of their fellow prisoners by guards, Kengir inmates launched a rebellion and proceeded to seize the entire camp compound, holding it for weeks and creating a period of freedom for themselves unique in the history of the Gulag. Following a rare alliance between the criminals and political prisoners, the prisoners succeeded in forcing the guards and camp administration to flee the camp and effectively quarantine it from the outside. The prisoners thereafter set up intricate defenses to prevent the incursion of the authorities into their newly won territory. This situation lasted for an unprecedented length of time and gave rise to a panoply of colorful and novel activity, including the democratic formation of a provisional government by the prisoners, prisoner marriages, the creation of indigenous religious ceremonies, a brief flowering of art and culture, and the waging of a large, relatively complex propaganda campaign against the erstwhile authorities. 
After 40 days of freedom within the camp walls, intermittent negotiation, and mutual preparation for violent conflict, the uprising was suppressed by Soviet armed forces with tanks and guns on the morning of 26 June. According to former prisoners, five hundred to seven hundred people were killed or wounded in the suppression, although official figures claim only a few dozen had been killed. The story of the uprising was first committed to history in The Gulag Archipelago, a work by former prisoner and Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.