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This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a…
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The Wende Museum is an art museum and historical archive dedicated to the Cold War. Its online collections consist of artworks, artifacts, documents, films, and historical witness interviews related to the subject.
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A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.
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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 numerous digitized Soviet publications on bourgeois propaganda and popular psychology. Many books shared there were published in the Cold War context.
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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A YouTube channel dedicated to Russian/Soviet and world history. It presents numerous historical video materials, documentaries, oral history interviews, and educational resources (lectures, etc.)
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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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Official English-language information bulletin published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
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English-language journal about the Soviet Union, published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
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English-language journal about the Soviet Union, published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
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Official organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau in the United States (1919-1922).
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Official English-language information bulletin published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
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A small collection of English translations of different Soviet legal documents.
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This publication lists all the members of the Central Committee and the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were elected at different Congresses of the CPSU.
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A publication of the CIA that provides a record of the known appearances of selected Soviet political leaders.
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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…
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Several downloadable document collections published by the Foreign Ministry Archive of Russia.
Online library of the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides downloadable PDFs of several document collections.
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Digital exhibition of Russian archival documents on Soviet domestic political system and US-Soviet relations.
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Collection of Soviet posters.
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Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and…
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Digital copy of historian Omeljan Pritsak's inaugural lecture on the Origin of Rus' at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 1975, shared by Steven Seegel on Twitter.
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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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Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977. The records of the…
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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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Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
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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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Topics include local scientific and cultural development, ethnographic studies in Primorsky Krai, urban development, 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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The collection contains 58 unique audio files that were produced and/or broadcast by RFE/RL’s Russian Service.
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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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The documents include the most complete transcript of the Malta summit ever published – excerpted from the forthcoming book, "Masterpieces of History": The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 (edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok for the Central European…
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Digitized document collection on the Korean War, originally compiled by Shen Zhihua, a Chinese historian, and published in Taiwan. The collection contains more than 1400 pages of Chinese translations of Russian archival documents on the subject.
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Thematic collections of Russian and Soviet caricature works.
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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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Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
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Declassified US National Security Agency records on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Digital encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism developed by the Marxists Internet Archive, containing English translations of representative anti-Revisionist materials from China, Albania, and many western countries.
Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
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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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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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NATO's digital archive, containing thousands of declassified or unclassified NATO memorandum, analytical reports, and other types of documents regarding the Soviet Union.
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Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the…
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Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
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