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A project that collects and presents materials about the experience of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the USSR.
Oral history interview with Mr. Denys Stavnychyi by St. Andrew's Episcopal School Student Conrad Osipowicz. In this interview Stavnychyi, who lived in the Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, reiterates the seriousness of the tragedy and reflects on the inefficiency of the…
Oral history interviews with victims and witnesses of Soviet political repressions.
This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a…
Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the…
A civic project that collects and presents oral history interviews, photographs, archival documents, and other materials related to Soviet political repressions in Belarus.
Kogu Me Lugu (translates into Collect Our Story, We're Collecting The Story, also Our Entire Story) is an online oral history portal that collects, preserves and shares the family stories of Estonians from around the world in video format. The project focuses on the memories of people who were…
A website with a large number of digital copies of publications on Uzbek language, literature, and folklore. Many of these publications are contemporary works, but there is also a large amount of Soviet publications on the website. Apart from literary works and literary scholarship, the website also…
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.
A website dedicated to mosaics in Tajikistan's architecture and artwork. On this site, users can browse photos of Tajikistan's mosaic artworks, locate them on a digital map, and learn about the artists and history of the mosaics.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
An online exhibit of digitized Soviet and Russian newspaper editions from the 1980s through the 1990s that illuminate the transformation of Russian society in that period.
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…
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.
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
The digital library of the Institute of Russian Literature of the RAS, providing free access to digital copies of the Institute's publications and other literary studies publications.
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.
The collection consists of Russian-language works, correspondence, and printed matter of Mandelʹshtam. It contains holograph and typed manuscripts of his poems, reviews, articles, and essays, often in draft form representing different stages of his work, many of which are in the hand of his wife,…
A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
An online library of laws and legal studies. It provides open access to Soviet and Russian legal sources and legal literature.
Online database of the official texts of legislation of Uzbekistan from 1925 till today.
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.
Online database of legal acts of Lithuania, containing the official texts of legislation adopted in Lithuania during its Soviet period. It also contains texts of international laws and international agreements that involved Lithuania.
The digital library of the Parliamentary Library of Russia, containing documents and publications of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, including published official laws, meeting records, published law collections, and works of legal studies. Many digital copies are available online.
Digital library of the Russian National Library, providing free access to a large number of digitized pre-revolution and Soviet literature.
Database of biographical information of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the 17th century till today.
Document collections and other publications of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, based on the agency's declassified archival documents. Currently, this page provides free access to one document collection dedicated to Europe and the USSR during 1935-1945.
The digital library of the Russian Geographical Society, containing thousands of digitized books, maps, atlases, periodicals, expedition reports, and other types of materials of the Society.
A few well-organized online exhibitions of documents from Latvian archives, many of which are dedicated to Soviet political repressions in Latvia.
The database contains lists of persons who were deported from Latvia to distant territories of the USSR by the Soviet regime between 1941 and 1953.
A database that collects information related to the historical heritage of the diaspora in Latvia and the world. This heritage consists of the documents of both individuals and organizations, covering the period from the years of the Second World War to the regaining of Latvia's independence.
Document collections published by the State Archives of Latvia, some of which have digital versions freely available via this web page.
The database of Latvian State Archives that contains all descriptions and historical records of the Communist Party fonds (9083 items) and provides free access to many original documents.
A digital project presenting extensive documents related to the First Republic of Georgia.
Biographical data of more than 15,000 people in the Society for Spreading Literacy among Georgians from its founding until its liquidation, in 1879-1927.
A digital project that presents more than 1000 archival records of the 19th-20th centuries about Germans living in Georgia and Transcaucasia.
A web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
Database of the Central Archive of Film and Photographic Documents of Georgia, where you can search and browse historical photographs of the country.
Online exhibitions and collections of archival documents from the State Archive of Minsk Oblast.
A digital collection of key legal documents, including constitutional laws, international agreements, criminal laws, and economic laws, in the history of Belarus.
A database of more than 3,500 officially published legal acts of the BSSR.
Resolution of the Azerbaijan SSR Council of Ministers "On the approval of the Model Rules for registering citizens who need to improve housing conditions and allocating residential areas in the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR"
Document collections on various topics based on Ukrainian foreign intelligence service records.
A significant number of digitized documents from the fonds of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast.
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Poltava Oblast.