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A digital collection consisting of early Soviet periodicals in Tyumen and a book on the history of administrative-territorial delimitation in Tyumen oblast.
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Digital archival information system for the State Archive of Novgorod Oblast and State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast, where users can search for documents and fonds information, and view digital copies of original documents without registration.
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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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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.
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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.
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The VK page of a digital scholarly-educational project of the same name, dedicated to Russian and Soviet history, as well as world history. On the VK wall the project team shares various kinds of primary source materials on Soviet history.
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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.
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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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Online exhibitions, downloadable PDF document collections, and digital projects of the State Archive of Murmansk Oblast. There are many interesting materials under the "Выставки" and "Сборники архивных документов, справочники" sections. Notebly, "МУРМАНСКИЙ НЭП" is a digital project dedicated to the…
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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.
Virtual exhibitions of the Museum-Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad", featuring various war-related materials.
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Online document collections published by the State Archive in Irbit.
Thematic document collection on the Revolution and Civil War in the Altai region.
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Document collection on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, published by the State Archival Administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast and the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
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Collaborative project led by the State Archive of Administrative Organs of the Sverdlovsk Oblast dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia and Ural. The project is well-designed and presents extensive archival documents and other historical materials.
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Publications of the Historical Archive of Omsk Oblast, many of which are freely downloadable document collections. Many collections are dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
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Online downloadable publications of the State Archive of Irkutsk Oblast, among which several are document collections on Soviet history covering topics like the Great Patriotic War, local life, Kolchak in Siberia, etc.
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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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An extensive collection of publications of the Perm State Archive of socio-political History, among which many are freely downloadable document collections and memoirs on various topics.
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Topics include local cultural and economic development, Crimean Jewish, the Great Patriotic War, etc.
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Digital project presenting archival documents on the Karelian Labor Commune. The project also has a database of Karelian refugees who fled to Finland from Karelia as a result of the Russian Russian Civil War.
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Topics include the Great Patriotic War, Buriat national culture, religion, and nationalities questions.
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Collective online project by the Russian State Photo Archive and the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive that presents audio recordings and photos of the participants of the building of the Red Army.
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
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A number of virtual exhibitions books, archival documents, periodical editions, posters, and other types of materials from the State Public Historical Library of Russia on various historical topics.
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Transcripts of the meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin
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Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
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Digital collection of Nestor Makhn's works, including his memoirs, articles, and studies on him.
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Selections of Russian newspaper clippings on various issues in the early 20th century.
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Digital archive of the Russian newspaper "Sibirskaia zhizn'" from 1894 to 1919.
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Online exhibitions of the Russian State Military Archive.
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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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Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
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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 collection of audio recordings of Soviet politicians (mostly Lenin).
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A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
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Painting of Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov (1869-1947), a Russian painter and draftsman of the realistic school of painting.
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A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
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