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Kogu Me Lugu (translates into Collect Our Story, We're Collecting The Story, also Our Entire Story) is an online oral history portal that collects, preserves and shares the family stories of Estonians from around the world in video format. The project focuses on the memories of people who were…
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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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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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The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often…
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The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Here you can find numerous free-access materials produced in or related to the Soviet Union, including tons of English-language files.
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Several downloadable document collections published by the Foreign Ministry Archive of Russia.
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Online library of the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides downloadable PDFs of several document collections.
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Digital library of the Russian State Military Archive that provides access to several published document collections.
Collection of Soviet posters during the Great Patriotic War.
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A site devoted to 1980s resistance movements in Eastern Europe and the events leading up to 1989. It contains official documents, American intelligence files, photographs, posters, and other documents.
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Open-access digital collections of Harvard Library, containing many digitized books, periodicals, maps, archival documents, photographs, and other types of primary source materials for researching Soviet history in various languages.
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The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.
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A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
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Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors,…
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A collection of TV and radio programs in Russia, the former Soviet Union, as well as other world countries from 1950 till today. Data on Russia are the most comprehensive, while data on other countries are inconsistent.
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Three downloadable document collections on Soviet-era deportations to Kazakhstan from 1930 to 1945, published by the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More digital publications may be added to this section in the future.
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One of a series of document collections on German atrocities against Soviet civilians during the Second World War.
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Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the major wars Russia/the USSR took part in in the 20th century.
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Topics include the development of the local light industry, women and children, the Great Patriotic War, etc.
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A list of digital projects of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia.
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A 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War commemorative exhibit about the building of the coalition between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt during the Second World War. It contains photographs, official documents, correspondence, etc. about the formation of this alliance.
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A digital project on the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, containing photographs and audio and video recordings.
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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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Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
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Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
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A set of archival documents on different events during the Great Patriotic War.
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Online document exhibitions of the Russian Historical Society.
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Full-text digital archive of The Atlantic, containing all of its issues from 1857 till today. The journal extensively reported on the Soviet Union on various topics. More than 3000 articles on the Soviet Union can be found in the digital archive.
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Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
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Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
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The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
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Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
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Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
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Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
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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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An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the Munich Agreement that played a large role in the politics of appeasement.
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A project containing documents, photographs, posters, etc. about the crimes of the Nazis against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The collection captures the experiences of a wide variety of individuals who suffered under the Nazi regime, including children, the…
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The electronic library of the Federal Archival Agency's Portal of the Archives of Russia. It contains several document collections, notably one consisting of documents from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
Digital editions of the Russian emigres newspaper Nakanune (published in Berlin) from 1922-1924.
Digitized newspaper editions of the Berlin State Library, including several Russian emigres newspapers, such as Novoe slovo, Naš mir, and Nakanune.
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Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
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Collection of archival documents from different countries on the global Cold War. Documents have been translated into English.
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Princeton University Library's digitized collections of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials. These collections include many rare and unique materials, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals. Princeton’s most intensive…
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The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early…
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