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A civic project that collects and presents oral history interviews, photographs, archival documents, and other materials related to Soviet political repressions in Belarus.
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Project "J-Doc" focuses on state policies of the USSR that affected Jews. It provides free access to various types of sources, including archival documents, periodicals, and oral history interviews.
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The official archive of Sakharov, containing scientific works, journalism, epistolary heritage, documents of social and political activity, memoirs, personal and property documents, as well as materials for evaluating the social activities of A. Sakharov and E. Bonner (discussion materials and…
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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.
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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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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.
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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 web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
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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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A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
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A Facebook group where members share clippings from Soviet newspapers and other types of publications. Sometimes group members also share archival documents on various topics.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).
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A website dedicated to Soviet films, where users can watch Soviet movies and cartoons online, listen to radio plays and music from films, and browse relevant posters and photographs.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet caricatures, clippings from satirIcal magazines of the USSR, and Soviet cartoons.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet funk, soul, jazz, and disco.
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.
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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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Digital archive of documents related to Isaak Babel, including his works, personal correspondence, official records, biography, and contemporaries' reviews of his works.
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Russian and Eurasian collections at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Though most items in the collections are not available online, users can still access thousands of Soviet posters and western radio broadcast records related to the USSR online.
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
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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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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 civil digital project initiated by the descendants of the victims of Soviet political repressions in Orsha, Belarus. The project has collected documents related to the victims and conducted oral history interviews with the descendants or relatives of the victims. You can find the transcriptions of…
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This digital archive provides access to digitized documents on Lithuanian partisans during 1944-1953, who participated in armed resistance against the Soviet regime.
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Publications of the State Archive of Odessa Oblast, among which many are downloadable document collections dedicated to important historical events in the region, such as Holodomor and the Second World War.
Online exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation. Most of the exhibitions are dedicated to prominent Soviet Belarusian scientists and architects.
Several digital exhibitions of archival documents from archives in Kyrgyzstan.
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A digital repository of Georgian posters of the 20th century.
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Publications of the State Archive of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, among which several are downloadable document collections on the Great Patriotic War, the national congress in the region in the 1934, and expeditions to the region in the 1930s.
   
Well-designed databases of the United State Archive of Chelyabinsk Oblast, currently including five databases on WWⅡ evacuation, victims of political repressions, dekulakization, Labor Red Army soldiers, and honored citizens of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
A project of the State Archive of Tver Oblast that collects personal narratives from archival materials on the Great Patriotic War.
Several well-designed online databases based on archival documents from Sverdlovsk Oblast, including databases on WWⅡ participants, and a database on the victims of political repressions from the 1920s through the 1930s.
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Digital project of the State Archive of Oryol Oblast, including several online exhibitions of archival documents and freely downloadable document collections on the subject.
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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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Topics include evacuations during the Great Patriotic War, local scientific and cultural development, etc.
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