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A project that collects and presents materials about the experience of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the USSR.
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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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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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Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Twitter account that shares 20th-century photography, architecture & design of Central and Eastern Europe.
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A Twitter account that shares clips of Soviet and Eastern European animation.
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A Twitter account that shares Soviet photographs, architecture & design, and USSR propaganda art.
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A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares historical agitational materials (mostly Soviet), including advertisements, posters, caricatures, and other types of materials.
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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 VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.
The official YouTube channel of an oral history project, Ustnaia istoriia, initiated by the Moscow State University focusing on culture and science. On the channel you can find recordings of oral history interviews conducted within this project.
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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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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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A YouTube channel that presents Soviet movies produced by the Gorky Film Studio.
A YouTube playlist of 140 Soviet and Ukrainian comedies produced by the Odesa Film Studio.
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A comprehensive YouTube playlist of more than 800 Soviet films produced by different film studios.
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The official Russian YouTube channel of Mosfilm, presenting thousands of Soviet and Russian films.
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The official English YouTube channel of Mosfilm, presenting over 1000 Soviet and Russian films with English subtitles.
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Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
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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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English-language journal that provides information about Soviet economy, published by the State Bank of the USSR.
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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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English-language journal published by the Soviet Union Information Bureau in Washington D.C.
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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…
Digital archive of Foreign Affairs editions from 1922 till today, including many articles related to the Soviet Union.
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The digital archive and library of the Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London), an information bureau established in London during the 1970s as the successor of the Ukrainian Publishers. It contains archival fonds related to the OUN and collections of books, periodicals, and other types of…
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Open-access archival documents on Stalinist Great Terror.
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Online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history, consisting of audio recordings of Soviet and world leaders' speeches, radio broadcasts, and other audio materials.
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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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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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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