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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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Document collections published by the State Archives of Latvia, some of which have digital versions freely available via this web page.
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Online exhibitions, databases, and listings of documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. The resources are mostly dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
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The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often…
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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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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
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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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Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of the Defense of Moscow.
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Digital library of the Russian State Military Archive that provides access to several published document collections.
This site is a database about servicemen/servicewomen, military engagements, and the military during the Great Patriotic War. It contains numerous documents on individuals and events.
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Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
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Digital collection of Soviet children's books and posters on various themes.
Topics include the building of the Russian navy, the Russian Civil War, the Baltic Fleet, etc.
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Online exhibitions of the Russian State Military Archive.
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The 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War documentary exhibit, containing photographs and official documents about the war.
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Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
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Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
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Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period. It also has a lot of publications and manuscripts in Finnish language.
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Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
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Digital library of the Russian Academy of Sciences that provides open access to extensive digitized academic publications as well as relevant archival documents, museum objects, and photographs.
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NATO's digital archive, containing thousands of declassified or unclassified NATO memorandum, analytical reports, and other types of documents regarding the Soviet Union.
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Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
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Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
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Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
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National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
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Digital catalog of the National Archives of the United States. Here you can find open-access records from different US governmental agencies on Soviet issues.
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Online database that contains numerous digital copies of Soviet periodical publications.
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Digital collection of journals and newspapers, mostly published in the Soviet era. Here you can access many important Soviet periodicals freely, such as Ogonek, Literaturnaia gazeta, and Sovetskii Soiuz.
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Information portal of the National Archives of Estonia, where you can find links to various digital archives, digital libraries, online databases, and digital projects of Estonian archives.
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Digitized archival documents from the National Archives of Estonia. Though most documents are from the pre-1940 period, one can still find a lot of Soviet-era documents from this website.
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Digital library of Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library, providing access to extensive digital copies of Soviet-era local publications.
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Digital library of Tver Oblast Gorky Universal Scientific Library, containing digital copies of many Soviet-era local publications, mostly books.
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Digital library of the Vladimir Gorky Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing digital copies of more than 4000 publications on the oblast as well as on more general topics. Its book and newspaper collections are particularly rich.
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Digital library of the N.A. Nekrasov Library, containing tons of digitized pre- and post-1917 publications that can be viewed online.
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This digital reading room provides access to digital finding aids for documents in the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia. However, you can only access the documents per se in person at the archive.
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Online finding aids and digital archive of the Russian State Archive.
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Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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Digital book collection of the National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic.
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A multi-media archive of primary source materials designed to introduce students and the general public to the richness and contradictions of Soviet history. It provides a cross-section of Soviet life in seventeen different years, following the title of a beloved television spy serial from the…
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Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
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Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
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