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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…
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.
Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
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.
A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials on military history. The group has a collection of Soviet military literature from the 1960s till the 1990s.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both secondary literature and primary source materials on a variety of historical questions. You can find thousands of digitized Soviet books and document collections in this group.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digital copies of a great variety of books, including a large number of Soviet books.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares historical agitational materials (mostly Soviet), including advertisements, posters, caricatures, and other types of materials.
A VK (V Kontakte) group created by the students of the history department of Moscow State University. The group shares materials, both primary sources and secondary literature, for studying various subjects, including Soviet history.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.
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.
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.)
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.
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…
Digital archive of Foreign Affairs editions from 1922 till today, including many articles related to the Soviet Union.
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
A huge digital library of the Library of Congress, containing many files from Russia and the former Soviet Union, including books, periodicals, photographs, paintings, maps, etc.
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.
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…
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.
Digital collections of Hoover Institution Library and Archives, containing many Soviet posters, paintings, and English-language audio recordings related to Soviet topics from the 20th century.
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
Digital library of the Perm State Library of Maksim Gorky, containing a lot of interesting publications from the Russian imperial times through the contemporary era. Apart from extensive publications in Russian, the digital library also provides access to publications in the Komi-Permyak language.
Digital project led by the Mayakovsky Library, with the participation of many other libraries in Saint-Petersburg. Apart from publications of all sorts, this digital library provides open access to many digitized publications on Saint-Petersburg.
Digital library of the Russian Academy of Sciences that provides open access to extensive digitized academic publications as well as relevant archival documents, museum objects, and photographs.
Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
Digital catalog of the National Archives of the United States. Here you can find open-access records from different US governmental agencies on Soviet issues.
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…
Open-access digital library containing digital copies of a considerable number of books and periodicals on architecture published in the Soviet Union.
Ukrainica is a national reference information and documentary resource of archival, handwritten, and printed sources created in Ukraine or other countries about Ukraine, its history, economy, culture, and people. The digital library now provides open access to tons of digitized books and other types…
Digital library of the Belgorod State Universal Scientific Library, containing extensive regional publications, as well as materials from beyond the oblast.
Digital library of the N.A. Nekrasov Library, containing tons of digitized pre- and post-1917 publications that can be viewed online.
Digital library of the Russian State Library for Children, containing extensive digitized pre- and post-1917 Russian and Soviet printed materials publications for/about children.
Digital library of the State Public Historical Library of Russia, containing more than 20 thousand digital copies of various publications. Users can use different indicators and the search function to search for publications they want.
Digital archive containing 20th-Century US legal documents on American diplomacy. You can find many documents on Soviet-US relations here.
Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
Collection of digital open-access published materials from between 1917 and 1991 in the Russian State Library. In the link, the filter "otkrytii dostup" is already selected; if it is not, one should select it in order to view publicly available books.
Digital library of various historical documents developed by the Russian Historical Society.
A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
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.
A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
Digital archive of more than 6700 digital copies of FBI documents. One can find records of the Operation SOLO and investigations of Soviet spies in this archive.
Open-access archive of the CIA, containing a large number of declassified CIA reports, leaked Soviet documents, oral history, etc.
A digital map preservation project which presents numerous digitized high-resolution maps of the USSR.