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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.
   
Topics include the history of local coal mining, industrialization, urban development, etc.
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Two poster collections of the London School of Economics Digital Library, one on Soviet childcare, the other on British Labour Delegation to Russia in the 1920s and 1930s.
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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.
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Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
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Digitized issues of Tihookeanskij zvezda, the Soviet-era official organ of the Dal'nevostok Krai from 1925-1950.
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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.
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Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the Komsomol organizations in Belgorod Oblast throughout the Soviet period.
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A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may…
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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.
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Document collection dedicated to the relationship between Petrograd/Leningrad and the Krasnoyarsk region throughout the 20th century.
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Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
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Official digital archive of the journal "Asia and Africa today", containing digital copies of editions of the journal from 1958 till 1974. Some articles can be freely downloaded as PDF from the website, while others are not free.
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A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
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A VK page devoted to various historical sources. It contains a motley group of sources on various topics in Russian history (each post is on a separate theme) and is mostly made up of the posts of "student-istorik," an account for humor and educational resources created by students of the Moscow…
Electronic archive of Novosibirsk Oblast archive. It contains photographs of aspects of economic and social life in Novosibirsk and a number of maps of the region, as well as a few other documents on the Soviet period.
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Princeton University Library's digitized collections of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials. These collections include many rare and unique materials, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals. Princeton’s most intensive…
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Digital archive of the State Archive of Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine that provides access to the full-text reference apparatus of the archive and its digitized fonds. Digitized materials are available for viewing online, and non-digitized cases can be ordered to the…
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Digital exhibits of the Museum of the Political History of Russia.
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The link takes one to the page of the Library of Congress collections for the keyword "Soviet Union" filtered by those materials available online. One can also search this library for other keywords using various filters (on the left) in order to narrow the search.
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Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
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Digital library of Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library, containing a huge number of digital copies of Soviet books, periodicals, and photographs about the Irkutsk region.
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Collection of digitized books, brochures, and periodicals on Russian and Soviet history from the Karelian Republic.
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An electronic library of books, brochures, and periodicals from the Tambov oblast on local history and social, economic, and political life.
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A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
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Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
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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.
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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.
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Plentiful interesting exhibitions based on abundant archival materials.
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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…
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A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
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A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
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Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
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Digital library with digitized materials from libraries in the Ural region.
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Online newspaper collections published by the State Archival Service of Novosibirsk Oblast.
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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.
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Digital library of various historical documents developed by the Russian Historical Society.
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Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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Digital exhibits of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
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Multifunctional information system designed to provide information resources for research on a wide range of issues of the evolution of labor relations in Russia, including labor legislation, wages, insurance and social security of workers, labor conflicts, etc. Here you can find Soviet-era…
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A page with primary documents on 20th century Russia on the site of the History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, including numerous major official documents.
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A site with a variety of documents and objects relating to Europe and its history and culture. The Russian collections contain a sporadic group of materials on Soviet daily life and culture.
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A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
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Webpage with resources for the study of Soviet history on the site of the Brigham University Harold B. Lee Library. It contains a list of links to various open access resources with documents, photographs, and audio recordings in both Russian and English.
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