Digitalisierte Zeitungstitel (List of digitized newspapers)
culture
ideology
propaganda
emigre
Digitized newspaper editions of the Berlin State Library, including several Russian emigres newspapers, such as Novoe slovo, Naš mir, and Nakanune.
Berlin State Library
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
Azerbaijani
Germany
Russia
Azerbaijan
Большевистский порядок в Грузии. В 2-х томах (Bolshevik Order in Georgia. 2 Volumes.)
Great Terror
political repression
personal narrative
Two-volume document collection and oral history interview collection on the Great Terror in Georgia. The first volume includes six long interviews with the descendants of the victims of the Great Terror in Georgia, and the second volumes consists of archival documents and statistical data on the Great Terror in Georgia.
АИРО-XXI
Digital document collection
Georgia
South Caucasus
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
church
religion
World War Ⅰ
World War Ⅱ
Lenin
Stalin
Soviet-Afghan War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sino-Soviet relations
foreign relations
Cold War
general
New Economic Policy
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
New York Times
Digital archive
English
USA
USSR
Большой террор в Абхазии (Абхазская АССР): 1937-1938 гг. (The Great Terror in Abkhazia (Abkhazian ASSR): 1937-1938)
Purges
repression
Three-volume document collection on the Great Terror in Abkhazia.
Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Abkhazia
100 лет Государственной архивной службе Воронежской области (100th Anniversary of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast)
Voronezh Oblast
archive
Document collection including photographs and a few archival documents about the work of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast. It is displayed on this organization's website.
Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
Человек, Политик, Дипломат (к 90-летию со дня рождения В. И. Воротникова) (Man, Politician, Diplomat (To the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Vorotnikov))
Vitalii Vorotnikov
diplomacy
Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
Great Patriotic War
military strategy
Site with numerous military maps that describe the events of the Great Patriotic War.
Andrey Lopatnev
Digital collection
Eastern Europe
Gulag
deportation
dekulakization
mass operations
anti-Semitism
purge
Memorial site devoted to the victims of Soviet political repression. It is primarily devoted to collecting information about victims, but also includes numerous archival documents and photographs of use to historians.
Andrei Shalaiev
Nicholas II
Alexander Kerensky
Page from an educational site about the Russian Revolution. It includes numerous major documents relating to the events of the revolution in English translation.
Alpha History
history
nationalities
national culture
Website devoted to the history of Azerbaijan. It includes numerous documents (orders, congress proceedings, reports, notes, etc.) on the subject, as well as some images of Soviet-era currency.
Aliya Gurbanova
Digital project
Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
railroad
St. Petersburg
urban history
Kronstadt Rebellion
military
Karelia
Vyborg
international relations
foreign policy
Winter War
local history
transportation
Soviet-Finnish relations
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.
Aleksei Shvarev
Finland
Добровольческий корпус (Volunteer Corps)
White Army
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
Aleksandr Makarov
Elena Glebova
Europe
global
Демография России и Российской империи на интернете (The Demography of Russia and the Russian Empire on Internet)
statistics
late Soviet period
Resource on the demography of tsarist and Soviet Russia compiled by two academics, Aleksandr Avdeev of Moscow State University and Alain Blum of Institut national d'études démographiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. It contains a number of demographic data and maps.
Aleksandr Avdeev
Alaim Blum
От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
soldiers
memory
Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
Commemorative page for the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War on the official site of the Administration of the Ordzhonikidze Raion. It contains a few resources about the experience of the war by citizens of the district, as well as a few reference sources about the contents of relevant archives.
Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
Online exhibition
Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)
Александр Солженицын: Из-под глыб. Рукописи, документы, фотографии. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: From Under the Rocks. Manuscripts, Documents, Photographs )
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
literature
literature & arts
Online exhibit about Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the website of the Russian Historical Society. It contains documents, photographs, and physical objects about his life and work.
Russian Historical Society
art
painting
Digital collections on the site of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum. They contain images of art from Russia and Western Europe during various historical periods, but can be filtered by country and/or date of creation to find Soviet art.
A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
A. P. Anashkin et al.
Altai Krai
База патентов СССР (Database of Patents of the USSR)
patent
law
science
technology
engineering
light industry
economy
agriculture
welfare
food
copyright
natural science
legal source
Database of copyright certificates and patents for inventions issued in the USSR.
#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
World War I
industrialization
collectivization
Perestroika
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 State University historical faculty.
@student-istorik
samizdat
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Amal'rik
Aleksandr Sviashch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vladimir Albrecht
Vladimir Bukovsky
Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
"Vekhi" Library
Виртуальные выставки (Virtual Exhibits of Russian State Archive in Samara)
industry
economics
biography
theater
architecture
Collection of online exhibits on various aspects of economic, cultural, and social life in the Samara oblast, as well as the scientific/technological achievements of the region.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Samara Oblast
Уникальные проекты страны Советов. Историко-документальная выставка. (Unique Projects of the nations of Soviets: A Historico-documentary Exhibit)
Online exhibit of the Russian state archive in Samara. It presents documents and photographs relating to several large Soviet technological, scientific, and construction projects.
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
Astrakhan Oblast
Akhtubinsk
construction
Battle of Stalingrad
Ikrianinskii District
fishing
canning
collective farm
labor
natural gas
youth
scholarship
hospital
healthcare
medicine
women
evacuation
letter
pioneer organization
veteran
A number of exhibits on social and economic life in the Astrakhan oblast, as well as on the participation of individuals and groups within the region in the Great Patriotic War. There is also some material on politics and administration.
Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
Электронный архив Новосибирской области (Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
Novosibirsk
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.
Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Stalinism
Party organization
political institution
intellectual
collapse of the USSR
Collection of archival documents on various topics in Soviet history.
Viacheslav Grigorievich Shcherbakov
Collections of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
Warsaw Pact
East Bloc
Soviet-Indonesian Relations
Indo-Soviet relations
Soviet-Yugoslav relations
Soviet-Swedish relations
NATO
1961 Berlin crisis
KGB
intelligence
Collection of archival documents from different countries on the global Cold War. Documents have been translated into English.
Bulgaria
Poland
Indonesia
India
China
Romania
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
avant-garde
protest
health
mass media
World War II
children
festival
Brezhnev
education
national security
trade
environment
public health
ecology
urban planning
police
housing
crime
family
music
humor
Revolution
celebrity
sport
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 collecting foci in Slavic are Russian and Soviet literature; performing arts in Russia and the Soviet Union; Russian and Soviet visual culture; political, social, and intellectual history of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union, including the history of science and pseudoscience; Soviet illustrated periodicals; and contemporary politics and society.
Princeton University Library
Ukraine
Belarus
Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
press
local administration
social sciences
humanities
Tatar
Digital library of the Kazan Federal University, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of local periodical issues, books, manuscripts, university publications, and other types of materials. In particular, it has a huge newspaper collection, where you can find digitized local newspapers in different languages from the pre-Revolution era to today.
Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
Kazan
Tatarstan
Электронная библиотека Новосибирской государственной областной научной библиотеки (Digital Library of Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library)
astronomy
language
geography
cartography
infrastructure
local study
satire
industrial development
German
everyday life
Digital library that contains a great number of digital copies of publications on the history, culture, people, traditions, and everyday life of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberia in general.
Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
Siberia
Far East
Публичная библиотека (Электронные книжные полки Вадима Ершова и К°) (Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°))
biology
physics
mathematics
philology
philosophy
poetry
political science
energy
cuisine
psychology
Digital library developed by a group of Russian specialists. Here you can find tons of Soviet and contemporary books, journals, newspapers of all kinds, especially academic publications.
Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°)
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
diaspora
social history
partisan
refugee
profession
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. The HPSSS’s value is compounded by the fact that it was compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework, making it accessible to a broad range of students and scholars.
Harvard University
Austria
Красноярский Меридиан. Электронная краеведческая библиотека (Krasnoyarsk Meridian. Digital Local Study Library)
migration
security service
printing
secret police
Digital local study library developed by the Krasnoyarsk State Universal Scientific Library. It contains a lot of Soviet-era local periodicals and books from/about the region.
State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Интегрированный банк "Законодательство России" (Integrated Bank "Legislation of Russia")
legislation
Online database of the official texts of federal and regional legislation of Russia from 1917 to today.
State Legal Information System, Russia
Online database
Jew
Holocaust
oral history
Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century.
Centropa.org
Armenia
Moldova
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Slovenia
Serbia
Western Europe
Baltics
Balkans
A huge database of maps and other cartographic materials published in the territory of Estonia in different periods.
National Archives of Estonia
Estonian
FOTIS Rahvusarhiivi fotoinfosüsteem (FOTIS National Archive Photo Database)
Photo database of the National Archives of Estonia, containing a huge number of photographs from different periods.
Elektroninio archyvo informacinė sistema (EAIS) (Electronic Archive Information System (EAIS))
diplomat
dissident
cinema
Digital archival system of the archives of Lithuania, where you can easily access extensive digitized archival documents and finding aids of Lithuanian state archives.
Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
Lithuanian
Norway
Brazil
Canada
„Lietuvos ypatingojo archyvo saugomų skaitmeninių vaizdų archyvas“ (E-vaizdų archyvas) ("Archive of Digital Images Protected by the Lithuanian Special Archive" (E-Image Archive))
insurgency
resistance
nationalism
NKVD
This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of video, film and audio documents confiscated or secretly made by the KGB.
Latvijas PSR VDK dokumenti (Latvian SSR KGB Documents)
Digital archive of documents of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvia SSR, containing extensive documents about the structure, personnel, and operation of the KGB in Latvia.
National Archives of Latvia
Latvian
forestry
folklore
Digital library created by the Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University. It contains digital copies of rare books, manuscripts, and periodicals related to science and education. In particular, it has a big collection of Kharkiv publications.
Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Ukrainian
Kharkiv
E-resource - Центральниий державний архів громадських об'єднань України (Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine)
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 archive reading room online through a personal account.
Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine
England
Bessarabia
Volyn
Galicia
Donbas
Kronshtadt
Crimea
Kuban
Kyiv
Luhansk
Odessa
Chernihiv
Центральный государственный архив кинофотодокументов и звукозаписей Республики Казахстан (Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
film
leisure
tourism
Muslim
Islam
folk culture
An interesting media resource. On the website, you can search for information about films, photographs, and audio materials at Kazakhstan's Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recording. The digital copies of some photographs and audio recordings are directly accessible from the website. The website also presents many interesting exhibitions of visual materials under the "Выставки" and "Медиа канал KFDZ" sections.
Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Tomsk
Orenburg
Central Asia
The Book Collection of the National Library of Latvia
library
linguistics
archaeology
ethnology
Digital books collection of the National Library of Latvia, providing open access to plentiful digitized Soviet Latvian books on various topics.
National Library of Latvia
The Periodicals Collection of the National Library of Latvia
Digital database of periodical publications of Latvia from the 18th century till today. The database provides open access to plentiful digitized Soviet-era Latvian periodical issues, including those published by Latvian diaspora groups.
Digital database of newspapers, journals, and serials published in Estonia from 1811 till today. Users can search by date of publication, publication title, article headline, keywords, author, and other parameters.
National Library of Estonia
Електронна бібліотека НБУ для дітей (Digital Library of the National Library of Ukraine for Children)
Digital library of rare children's publications that came out between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century at the National Library of Ukraine for Children.
National Library of Ukraine for Children
Електронної бібліотеки «Культура України» (Digital Library "Culture of Ukraine")
Ukrainian modernism
dance
choreography
circus
book
material culture
ethnography
Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Wise focusing on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Here users can find publications from different periods on Ukrainian cultural topics.
The National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise
Электронная библиотека - Ульяновская областная научная библиотека имени В.И. Ленина (Digital Library of Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library)
administrative-territorial division
Digital library of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientificc Library, containing digital copies of many pre-revolution and Soviet books and periodical issues.
Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Публичная электронная библиотека - Сахалинская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Public Digital Library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
nature
exile
Korean
Digital library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific library that contains digital copies of many Soviet books on the Sakhalin region.
Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Sakhalin