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Project "J-Doc" focuses on state policies of the USSR that affected Jews. It provides free access to various types of sources, including archival documents, periodicals, and oral history interviews.
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The UN Archives Geneva platform gives access to the fonds and collections managed by the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva, including the archives of the United Nations in Geneva, the League of Nations (1919-1946), international peace movements (from 1870), and private papers. The…
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The entirely digitize League of Nations Archives, estimated to contain some 15 million pages of content. The archives include tons of Soviet-related documents on a variety of topics.
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The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of…
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Online database of legal acts of Lithuania, containing the official texts of legislation adopted in Lithuania during its Soviet period. It also contains texts of international laws and international agreements that involved Lithuania.
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Document collections and other publications of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, based on the agency's declassified archival documents. Currently, this page provides free access to one document collection dedicated to Europe and the USSR during 1935-1945.
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A website dedicated to the history of propaganda around the world in all historical periods. The website contains a section on Soviet propaganda, where many primary source materials are presented.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both primary historical sources and secondary literature, as well as news and other posts related to historical studies.
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Here you can find hundreds of thousands of documents and publications, in various languages, that were published in the Soviet Union or about the…
Online library of the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides downloadable PDFs of several document collections.
This site is a database about servicemen/servicewomen, military engagements, and the military during the Great Patriotic War. It contains numerous documents on individuals and events.
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The collection contains 58 unique audio files that were produced and/or broadcast by RFE/RL’s Russian Service.
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Extensive collection of digitized historical and CIA maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Library of the University of Texas at Austin, including maps of Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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Ebook editions of a growing number of volumes from the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series.
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This documentary supplement to the article, "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall," has been prepared on the occasion of the Washington summit marking the 50th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is intended to provide the reader with the most important sources…
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A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may…
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Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
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This is a site linking to multiple digitized collections of resources that include Eastern European/Russian materials. Most of these collections are pan-European, and some of them are cited elsewhere in this guide.
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An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the politics of appeasement.
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A site devoted to the life and work of Russian philosopher Ivan Il'in, who worked in Russia before 1922 and spent much of the Soviet period in exile. It contains official documents relating to his work, personal correspondence, and some of his works.
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A collection of the works of the Eurasianist thinkers of the 1920s and 1930s. It includes published articles, correspondence, and other materials.
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
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Digital collections of Russian National Library that provide open access to extensive pre- and post-1917 publications on a variety of themes.
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Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
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Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
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Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
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This collection of open access sources provides links to primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. The documents cover a broad range of historical events (political, economic, social, and cultural) in each of the 49 European countries, including 10…
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Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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Digital map collections and geographical databases on Russia, East and Southeast Europe
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A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
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The virtual reading room of the National Security Archive (George Washington University), containing documents about American-Soviet relations, the Cold War, and other Soviet events relevant to U.S. national security.
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Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
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A site with a variety of documents and objects relating to Europe and its history and culture. The Russian collections contain a sporadic group of materials on Soviet daily life and culture.
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Open-access archive of the CIA, containing a large number of declassified CIA reports, leaked Soviet documents, oral history, etc.
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A digital map preservation project which presents numerous digitized high-resolution maps of the USSR.
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