Библиотека [Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский] (Library [Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii])
Felix Dzerzhinskii
political leader
Russian Revolution
Anastas Mikoian
Stalin
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
Russia
USSR
Андрей Платонов [материалы] (Andrei Platonov [Material])
Andrei Platonov
literature
culture
poetry
intellectual
literature & arts
Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
Platonov group of IMLI RAN headed by Corresponding Member N. V. Korniienko
Turkmenistan
Central Asia
Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
World War Ⅱ
Nuremberg Trials
Great Patriotic War
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Iuridicheskaia literatura
Digital document collection
Germany
USA
France
Stalinism
Lenin
Constitution
law
New Economic Policy
legal source
Collection of English translations of Soviet documents and leaders' speeches on the Russian Revolution, the establishment of the Bolshevik power, and Stalinism.
Fordham University
Digital project
English
Питирим Сорокин: избранная переписка (Pitirim Sorokin: selected correspondence)
Pitirim Sorokin
sociology
scholarship
Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
P. P. Krotov
World War I
Eastern Europe
Russian Civil War
repression
Communism
Baltic Germans
nationalities
satire
Jewish
World War II
Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
Osmikon
German
1917 Russian Revolutions in Newspaper Reports
Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
1917
French
Czech
other
Europe
international relations
global
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Cold War
Perestroika
general
personal narrative
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.
memory
everyday life
Great Terror
family
NKVD
KGB
secret police
security service
Gulag
A memory project conducted among families from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Perm. In each family extensive interviews were carried out with the oldest relatives, who were able to explain the context of their family archives and relate them to the family history. This represents a unique collection of documents and testimony about private life in the Stalin period, reflecting the interior world of ordinary families and individuals.
Orlando Figes
Moscow
Saint-Petersburg
Perm
Vladivostok
Primorsky Krai
tourism
urban history
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
Old Vladivostok
Депортированные калмыки на Новосибирской земле: расселение и обустройство. Декабрь 1943-1946 гг. Сборник документов. (Deported Kalmyks on Novosibirsk Territory: Resettlement and Acclimatization. December 1943-1946. Document Collection)
deportation
resettlement
Kalmyk
Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
O. V. Vydrina and I. V. Samarin et al.
Novosibirsk Oblast
Дети тылового Алтая (The Children of the Altai Home Front)
children
Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
O. N. Dudareva
Altai Krai
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
1946
Rubrik Dokument des Monats (Document of the Month Section)
A digital project, mostly for educational purposes, where a new primary document pertaining to the history of Germans in Russia is posted each month.
Bavarian Cultural Center for Germans from Russia
Windows on War: Soviet Posters, 1943-1945
The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
The University of Nottingham
Online exhibition
propaganda
art
National Library of Scotland
Журнал "Современная архитектура" (1926-1930) (The Journal Contemporary Architecture (1926-1930))
architecture
Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Журнал «Коммунистический интернационал» (1919-1943) (Journal The Communist International (1919-1943))
Comintern
communism
political institution
foreign relations
foreign policy
ideology
Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
Д.А.Кунаев. Официальный сайт (D.A. Kunaev. Official Site)
Dinmukhamed Kunaev
local administration
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
International Konaev Fund
Kazakhstan
Архивная мозаика культуры Карелии в интернете (The Archival Mosaic of Karelian Culture Online)
writing
music
politics
statesmen
Karelia
Digital archive of documents and materials on Karelian culture.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Finnish
Republic of Karelia
Североамериканские финны в Советской Карелии в 1920‑1930‑е гг. (Northern American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1930s)
migration
economy
education
sport
Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
Документы и статьи (Documents and Articles)
Communist Party
partisan
Transcriptions of a set of archival documents on Soviet party organization and other issues.
Nafthali Hirschkowitz et al.
Андрей Иванович Шингарев (Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev )
Kadets
Duma
Revolution
Andrei Shingarev
Website dedicated to Andrei Shingarev, one of the leaders of the Russian Constitutional Democratic party.
Nadezhda Alekseieva Nechaieva
Georgii Ivanovich Trubnikov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Makarov
Коллекции - Музей Истории Евреев в России (Collections of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia)
national culture
Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
Museum of the History of the Jews in Russia
Hebrew
Belarus
Hungary
Dagestan
Georgia
Israel
Poland
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Romania
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Azerbaijan
Поиск экспонатов (Музей кино) (Museum of Cinema Digital Archive of Exhibit Objects)
film
cinema
Digitized photographs, posters, manuscripts, rare books, and other types of exhibits of the State Central Film Museum of Russia.
State Central Film Museum of Russia
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Digital archive
Цена кадра: каждый второй ранен; каждый третий убит (The Price of a Film Frame: Every Other Man is Wounded; Every Fourth Man is Killed)
Holocaust
photographers
Digital project dedicated to the creators of Soviet front-line films during the Second World War. On this web page you can find archival documents, photographs, and video clips about Soviet front-line filmmaking.
Петроград, Ленинград в истории Красноярья в ХХ веке по материалам КГКУ "Государственный архив Красноярского края" (Petrograd, Leningrad in the History of Krasnoyarsk in the 20th Century in the Materials of KGKU "State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai")
industry
Document collection dedicated to the relationship between Petrograd/Leningrad and the Krasnoyarsk region throughout the 20th century.
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
V. P. Astafiev FBGOU VPO KGPU
Archive Agency of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Leningrad
1914-1918. Памяти героев Великой войны (1914-1918. In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War)
World War Ⅰ
Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Leon Trotsky
Yakov Sverdlov
Red Army
Communist international
agriculture
Digital collection of audio recordings of Soviet politicians (mostly Lenin).
Michigan State University
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oral history
GPU
Cheka
purge
A set of oral history and memory projects on Soviet political repression and terror.
Memorial Museum "The Investigative Prison of the NKVD"
Хроника текущих событий (The Chronicle of Current Events)
human rights
Helsinki process
The Chronicle of Current Events is a type-written, informational bulletin of Soviet human rights activists, published from 1968 to 1983. This website provides online transcripts of the content of the bulletin.
Memorial
Ostarbeiter
P.O.W.
Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
Czechoslovakia
Диск Сталинских списков (Stalin Lists Disk)
Digitized lists of persons who were repressed under Stalin.
Фотоархив Мемориала (Memorial Photo Archive)
civil society
dissident
Photograph collections of the International Memorial on Soviet political repressions and civil activism.
Books of International Memorial (Books of International Memorial)
Volga German
Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
Siberia
Ежегодник «Общество и государство в Китае» (Yearbook "Society and State in China")
Sino-Soviet relations
Oriental Studies
Chinese Studies
science
social sciences
Annual publication of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1970. Digital copies of table of contents from 1980 are freely downloadable on this web page.
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
China
Unified Digital Archive of Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
Archival documents, including author bio, letters, and official documents, related to Osip Mandelstam.
Mandelshtam Center
Архив Магнитогорского Металла (The Archive of the Magnitogorskii Metall)
Magnitogorsk
metallurgy
economics
local history
Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
Magnitogorskii Metall: The Magnitogorsk City Newspaper
Материалы русской истории (Materials on Russian History )
A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Электронный архив открытого доступа НИУ "БелГУ" (Open-Access Repository of the Belgorod National Research University)
humanities
linguistics
philology
geography
philosophy
mathematics
natural science
Digital archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
Belgorod National Research University
Digital library
Belgorod
Исторические сведения о кумыках (Historical Information about the Kumyks)
Kumyks
Caucasus
Turks
A website dedicated to the Kumyk people, their history and culture. Some transcriptions of archival documents and historical photographs can be found in different sections of the website.
Kumyk Scientific-Cultural Society
North Caucasus
Кольские карты. Карты ХХ века (Kola maps. Maps of the 20th Century)
map
geology
Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
Kola maps editorial board
Murmansk Oblast
История нашей страны: Киевская Русь -- Московское государство -- Российская империя -- СССР -- Россия (The History of Our Country: Kievan Rus' -- Muscovy -- The Russian Empire -- USSR -- Russia)
Pokrovsky
history
almanac
constitution of 1936
CPSU
church
Nicholas II
religion
Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
K. Kuzmin'skii
Kol'tso Patrioticheskikh Resursov
International Institute of Social History
famine
hunger
statistics
Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
International Contact Group for research on on issues of historical political economy in former Soviet archives
Трагедия Советской деревни. Коллективизация и раскулачивание (The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization, 1927-1939)
dekulakization
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Архив академика А. П. Ершова (Archive of the Academic A. P. Ershov)
Andrei Ershov
technology
programming
computer science
Digital archive of documents related to Andrei Ershov, a prominent Soviet academic of information science.
Institute of Informatics Systems of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Актуальные темы. История и современность (Current Themes. History and Modernity)
Andrei Sakharov
intelligentsia
vekhi
Prague spring
August Coup
Yabloko party's digital collection of historical articles and books on Russian liberalism, culture, intelligentsia, and other political topics.
Yabloko Party
Рукописные тетради Марины Цветаевой (Handwritten Notebooks of Marina Tsvetaeva)
Marina Tsvetaeva
Silver Age poets
Digital collection of manuscripts of Marina Tsvetaeva.
House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva
Digital Collections of the Hoover Institution
espionage
intelligence services
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital collections of Hoover Institution Library and Archives, containing many Soviet posters, paintings, and English-language audio recordings related to Soviet topics from the 20th century.
Hoover institution