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This digital archive provides access to digitized documents on Lithuanian partisans during 1944-1953, who participated in armed resistance against the Soviet regime.
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This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of…
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Blinken OSA Library houses a non-circulating reference library of books related to the Cold War, Communism, international human rights, history of broadcasting and the archival profession as well as a collection of more than 7.300 dailies and journals published from the 1950s onwards in 40…
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A digital project developed by a team of James Madison College faculty and librarians from MSU on the collapse of the USSR and the early years of statehood of the Soviet successor states. The digitized materials collected for these events include contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Russian and in…
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The digital repository of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences contains digitized materials from the holdings of the Library (cultural heritage and scholarly sources, old books and periodicals, manuscripts, old postcards, drawings, photographs, etc.) and digital publications…
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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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Archive of Lithuanian movies from 1930 till today, containing thousands of Soviet Lithuanian productions.
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Digital archive of the State Archive of Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine that provides access to the full-text reference apparatus of the archive and its digitized fonds. Digitized materials are available for viewing online, and non-digitized cases can be ordered to the…
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Digital archival system of the archives of Lithuania, where you can easily access extensive digitized archival documents and finding aids of Lithuanian state archives.
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The largest digital cultural heritage portal in Lithuania which has been in operation for more than 15 years. Currently, it contains over 280,000 items of cultural heritage. Its content is created and new additions to the portal are made by 24 institutions including libraries, museums, and archives.
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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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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.
Photographs of Lithuanian anti-Soviet fighters and postwar deportees.
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Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
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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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Digital archive of English-language primary source documents, essays, books, and personal accounts related to Soviet history. Some of these are original English documents and accounts, some are English translations of Russian-language originals. The website also provides free access to digitized…
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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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Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet…
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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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Demographic data of the former Soviet states as well as other world countries provided by the Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economy. Here you can find different demographic indicators for 15 former Soviet states in different years and detailed Soviet census data.
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A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
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From 1939 to 1953, nearly a million people from the European territories annexed by the USSR were deported to the Gulag. This digital project is a compilation of testimony from former deportees, photographs taken during their lives, private and public archival material, and films, collected by an…
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Online database developed by the International Memorial, providing information about the personnel of the Soviet NKVD during 1935 and 1939.
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Digital archive of memoirs, diaries, and personal correspondence on Soviet political repressions from the fonds of the International Memorial. Most of these documents were not published. You can use thematic, geographical, and institutional indicators to search for relevant materials on this…
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Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
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Oral history project of the Museum of Gulag history that recollects memories of the people who were affected by Soviet political repressions. Interviewees include the repressed themselves, their children, former NKVD members, Children of NKVD members, the dekulakized, deportees, and labor armyists.
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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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Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
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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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One of a series of document collections on German atrocities against Soviet civilians during the Second World War.
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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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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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