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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.
Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read…
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.
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
Collaborative project between archives of Tatarstan and Chelyabinsk Oblast, dedicated to the period of industrialization in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the role of Tatar migrants in it.
Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
Online exhibition of photographs taken by 20th-century Russian and Hungarian photographers that present the everyday life and urban landscapes of the two countries and their bilateral relations.
A lot of interesting and informative digital projects based on archival documents from seven major archives of Saint-Petersburg, covering plenty of well-known and less-known topics in Russian and Soviet history.
The Digital library of Astrakhan Oblast Scientific Library contains more than 5000 documents and publications on the region's history, culture, peoples, and other aspects of life. It also provides access to digitized issues of Soviet-era regional periodicals.
Digital library of the Belgorod State Universal Scientific Library, containing extensive regional publications, as well as materials from beyond the oblast.
Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
Database of the Central Archive of Film and Photographic Documents of Georgia, where you can search and browse historical photographs of the country.
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…
Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet…
A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
A website on the Venev Uezd in Tula Oblast containing local historical sources, including books and newspapers.
Collection of primary source materials related to the history of Zaprozhzhia. Soviet-era documents include local periodicals, construction plans, photographs, and archival documents from city administrations.
A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users…
A Duke University exhibit of photographs taken between 1918 and 1930 by two Americans, officer Robert L. Eichelberger and economist Frank Whitson Fetter, who had the opportunity to visit the USSR during that time. The photographs reveal aspects of everyday social and economic life.
A site with a huge number of diaries and memoirs from the Soviet period from a variety of people, including masses of ordinary citizens, on daily economic, social, cultural, and political life.
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.
Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
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…
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.)
Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
Digital library of Lipetsk Oblast Universal Scientific Library, consisting of book collections and periodical collections. Most books are from imperial Russia, but there are also some Soviet publications on the region, especially some statistical reports. The periodical collections have not only…
Archive of Lithuanian movies from 1930 till today, containing thousands of Soviet Lithuanian productions.
A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
Digital archive of English-language primary source documents, essays, books, and personal accounts related to Soviet history. Some of these are original English documents and accounts, some are English translations of Russian-language originals. The website also provides free access to digitized…
Online exhibitions and digital document collections published by the Moscow Oblast Archival Center.
A digital archive of oral histories on everyday life, science, technology, and the experiences of the technical-intellectual elite in the USSR.
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.
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.