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Oral history interview with Mr. Denys Stavnychyi by St. Andrew's Episcopal School Student Conrad Osipowicz. In this interview Stavnychyi, who lived in the Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, reiterates the seriousness of the tragedy and reflects on the inefficiency of the…
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A website that collects personal accounts, old photographs, and other types of materials on the city of Tashkent. A lot of posts on the website are dedicated to the city's history.
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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.
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Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
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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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The collection consists of Russian-language works, correspondence, and printed matter of Mandelʹshtam. It contains holograph and typed manuscripts of his poems, reviews, articles, and essays, often in draft form representing different stages of his work, many of which are in the hand of his wife,…
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A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
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A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.
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A digital project presenting extensive documents related to the First Republic of Georgia.
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A digital project that presents more than 1000 archival records of the 19th-20th centuries about Germans living in Georgia and Transcaucasia.
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A digital collection of key legal documents, including constitutional laws, international agreements, criminal laws, and economic laws, in the history of Belarus.
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Over 150 propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union (1920s-1930s). These posters have been digitized and the images placed in a database with information about each poster. The text included in some of the posters has been translated into English.
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140 posters, Krokodil covers, and clippings, most created by members of the Fighting Pencil (Boevoi karandash) artists’ collective, satirizing bureaucratic abuses and inefficiencies during the last decades of the Soviet period.
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Online listing of unique archival documents from federal and regional archives of Russia. Each item on the list is a small collection of documents on a certain topic. Currently, the website contains more than 300 items consisting of thousands of pages of digitized archival documents.
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Digital project that provides open access to about 1000 digitized Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
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Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
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A website dedicated to Soviet rock music, where you can search Soviet rock bands, listen to their music, and watch old video recordings.
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Historian Sergey Abashin's academic page on academia.edu, where he has uploaded thousands of Soviet academic publications, including monographs and articles, mostly on Central Eurasia, ethnicities, ethnography and anthropology.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
Digital collection of published materials on the ethnography and folklore of the Russian North, including the territories of Vologda Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Republic of Komi.
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Digital collection of around 6000 black and white photos intended to document the reconstruction of the Soviet Union following World War II. These photos provide a visual record of daily life, culture, and news at the start of the Cold War. The collection also contains a few earlier photographs.
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Russian and Eurasian collections at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Though most items in the collections are not available online, users can still access thousands of Soviet posters and western radio broadcast records related to the USSR online.
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Digital collection of Soviet documents on Soviet-West German relations during the Brezhnev era.
Digital collections of scientific publications from the second half of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th century from the Republican Scientific-Technical Library of Belarus. The collection is still being worked on, so only a few publications listed there are downloadable.
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A digital repository of Georgian posters of the 20th century.
Several digitized books from the rare book collection of the Aginskaya Regional Library (Zabaykalsky Krai), including publications in old Mongol script and the Buryat translations of Russian classical literary works.
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A set of digital tools provided by the United State Archive of Orenburg Oblast, including online guides to the archive's collections and finding aids, and a few online databases. The databases include a database on individuals evacuated to the Chkalov Oblast during the Great Patriotic War, a…
Online exhibitions of archival documents on various topics. The "Nakhodki arkhivistov" section is constantly being updated and has a lot of interesting documents on various themes, such as the Great Terror, local cultural celebrities, local education, etc.
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Open-access archival documents on Stalinist Great Terror.
"The Paper Currency & Banknotes database features detailed descriptions and images of over 600 numismatic pieces found in the André Savine Collection. Pieces in the numismatics sub-collection consist primarily of paper currency and other forms of scrip such as banknotes, loan obligations, and…
This encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. It provides access to various historical materials related to Soviet Jews.
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Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Digital exhibits from the Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery .
Digital exhibits from the Bourganov House.
Digital exhibits from the Ilia Glazunov Gallery.
Digital exhibits from the Cinema Club-Museum "El'dar".
Digital exhibits from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky.
Digital exhibits from the State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
Digital exhibits from the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School.
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
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