- ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ИСТОЧНИКИ - (Historical Sources) VK Group
subject: general
subject: intelligence
subject: Cold War
subject: NATO
subject: foreign relations
subject: culture
subject: cinema
subject: World War Ⅱ
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both primary historical sources and secondary literature, as well as news and other posts related to historical studies.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: global
coverage: USA
coverage: China
coverage: Europe
coverage: Asia

"Iveriel" Digital Library of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
subject: nationalities
subject: history
subject: culture
subject: agriculture
subject: alcoholism
subject: architecture
subject: art
subject: printing
subject: science
subject: literature & arts
description: A huge digital library of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, containing extensive materials in different languages of various types.
creator: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Georgian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Turkey
coverage: Abkhazia
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Caucasus

"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalogue of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
subject: Jewish
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
subject: everyday life
description: "The photographs in People of a Thousand Towns constitute a visual record of thousands of pre-World War II Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. They span the late 19th century to the early 1940s and document the lives of large Jewish centers as well as many smaller towns and villages."
creator: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1322
title: "Закаленные Великой Отечественной..." 65-летие Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг. ("Forged by the Great Patriotic War..." The 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 Project)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: military
subject: weapon
description: The 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War documentary exhibit, containing photographs and official documents about the war.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

"Мы помним Ваши имена" ("We remember Your names")
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital project dedicated to the participation of people from Khakassia in the Great Patriotic War. The project presents a considerable number of archival documents, photographs, and veterans' memoirs.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1987
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Khakassia
coverage: Russia

"От коммуны к республике" (From Communes to Republic)
subject: Karelian Labor Commune
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: economy
subject: education
subject: society
subject: everyday life
subject: migration
description: Digital project presenting archival documents on the Karelian Labor Commune. The project also has a database of Karelian refugees who fled to Finland from Karelia as a result of the Russian Russian Civil War.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1940
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: Finnish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Finland

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1458
title: "Охматмлад" и "Дети республики." Идеология и практика социальной политики в Енисейской губернии в 1920-е гг. ("Okhmatmlad" and "Deti Respubliki." Ideology and Practice of Social Policies in Yeniseysk Guberniia in the 1920s. )
subject: children
subject: motherhood
subject: family
subject: parenthood
subject: social policies
subject: childcare
subject: ideology
description: Document collection on early Soviet social policies on children, motherhood, and family from 1920 to 1930.
creator: Siberian Federal University
source: <a href="https://docviewer.yandex.ru/?tm=1658857715&tld=ru&lang=ru&name=Okhmatmlad-i-Deti-respubliki.pdf&text=%22%D0%9E%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%22+%D0%B8+%22%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8+%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8.%22+%D0%98%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%B2+%D0%95%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%B2+1920-%D0%B5+%D0%B3%D0%B3.&url=http%3A//xn----7sbbimrdkb3alvdfgd8eufwc.xn--p1ai/upload/files/Okhmatmlad-i-Deti-respubliki.pdf&lr=102589&mime=pdf&l10n=ru&sign=78c94f51efc969348edde098b748154a&keyno=0">Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1930
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Krasnoyarsk Krai
coverage: USSR

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1544
title: "Час мужества пробил на наших часах..." Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945 гг. в произведениях изобразительного искусства ("The Hour of Courage has Struck on our Clocks..." The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 in Works of Art)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: art
subject: propaganda
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: Online exhibition of artwork dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Vologda Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

"Я родился в 1912 году..." К 100-летию со дня рождения Б. Е. Чертока ("I was born in 1912..." The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of B. Ie. Chertok Exhibit)
subject: Boris Chertok
subject: engineering
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: intellectual
description: An exhibit devoted to Soviet rocket scientist Boris Chertok and his work on the development of the Soviet space program. It contains mostly documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1912-2011
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

„Lietuvos partizanų dokumentų elektroninis archyvasׅ“ (E-partizanų archyvas) (Digital Archive of Lithuanian Partisans Document (E-Partisans Archive))
subject: partisan
subject: insurgency
subject: resistance
description: This digital archive provides access to digitized documents on Lithuanian partisans during 1944-1953, who participated in armed resistance against the Soviet regime.
creator: Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1944-1953
format: Digital archive
language: Lithuanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Baltics

„Lietuvos ypatingojo archyvo saugomų skaitmeninių vaizdų archyvas“ (E-vaizdų archyvas) ("Archive of Digital Images Protected by the Lithuanian Special Archive" (E-Image Archive))
subject: secret police
subject: KGB
subject: security service
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Holocaust
subject: insurgency
subject: resistance
subject: nationalism
subject: nationalities
subject: culture
subject: NKVD
subject: Party organization
subject: political institution
subject: public health
subject: education
subject: science
subject: intellectual
subject: religion
subject: political repression
subject: sport
description: 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.
creator: Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Lithuanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Baltics

«ImWerden», электронная библиотека Андрея Никитина-Перенского (ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky)
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: history
subject: Gulag
subject: political repression
subject: linguistics
subject: philology
subject: music
subject: geography
subject: children
subject: law
subject: science
subject: architecture
subject: ethnography
subject: personal narrative
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library that provides free access to a great number of digital copies of Russian books and periodicals. You can also find audio recordings of authors reading their own works on this website.
creator: ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

«Вторая литература» : Электронный архив зарубежья имени Андрея Синявского (Vtoraia literatura: Andrei Sinyavsky Digital Archive of the Emigrants)
subject: diaspora
subject: printing
subject: literature
subject: children
subject: Cossack
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: intelligence
subject: emigration
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: A branch of the ImWerden digital library focusing on publications of Russian emigrants. Here you can find books and periodicals published by Russian emigrants throughout the 20th century, as well as publications aimed at the Russian diaspora communities around the world. Besides, the website provides free access to foreign-language journals, such as "Central Asian Review".
creator: Vtoraia literatura: Andrei Sinyavsky Digital Archive of the Emigrants
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: UK
coverage: USA
coverage: Netherlands
coverage: Germany
coverage: France
coverage: Poland
coverage: Israel

«Еврейские герои» (Jewish heroes) Telegram Channel
subject: Jewish
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: political repression
subject: dissident
subject: nationalities
description: "Jewish Heroes" is a project that shares information about Jewish people who struggled against the Soviet regime. The project's Telegram channel shares original archival materials about these Jewish people.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1296
title: «Зимнее волшебство». Нацистская карательная операция в белорусско-латвийском пограничье, февраль – март 1943 г.: документы и материалы ("Winter Magic": Nazi Punitive Operation on the Belarus-Latvian Border, February - March 1943: Documents and Materials)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: village
description: A published collection of archival documents about Nazi German punitive operations on the Belarus-Latvian border zones in 1943.
creator: Department of Archives and Clerical Work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Belarus
creator: World Belarus Fond
creator: Russian Fond of Aid to Current Historical Research "Historical Memory"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1943
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia

«Письма о Ташкенте» — художественный исторический альманах ("Letters about Tashkent" - artistic historical almanac)
subject: memory
subject: urban history
subject: Tashkent
subject: everyday life
subject: culture
subject: general
subject: personal narrative
subject: art
description: 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.
creator: Evgenii Skljarevski
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Central Asia

#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: @student-istorik
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Foreign Affairs Archive
subject: nationalism
subject: internationalism
subject: peasantry
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Jewish
subject: Arctic
subject: purge
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: economy
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: nationalities
subject: Trotsky
subject: Stalin
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Gorbachev
subject: Perestroika
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive of Foreign Affairs editions from 1922 till today, including many articles related to the Soviet Union.
creator: Foreign Affairs
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1922-2022
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: China

05/03/53
subject: Stalin
subject: political leader
subject: personal cult
subject: personal narrative
description: Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
creator: 50353
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1953
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

100 лет Государственной архивной службе Воронежской области (100th Anniversary of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast)
subject: Voronezh Oblast
subject: archive
description: 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.
creator: Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-2022
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Voronezh Oblast

100 раритетов российской государственности (100 Rarities of Russian Statehood)
subject: statehood
subject: political institution
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: legal source
description: An exhibit with 100 rare and famous documents on Russian statehood, which includes three categories on the Soviet period.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

100-летие начала гражданской войны (100th Anniversary of the Start of the Russian Civil War)
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: propaganda
subject: culture
description: Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
creator: State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1922
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

100(0) ключевых документов по Российской и Советской истории (1917-1991) (100(0) Key Documents on Russian and Soviet History (1917-1991) )
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
creator: Dr. Helmut Altrichter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

1914-1918. Памяти героев Великой войны (1914-1918. In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War)
subject: World War Ⅰ
description: Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
creator: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-1918
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

1917 Russian Revolutions in Newspaper Reports
subject: Russian Revolution
description: Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917
format: Digital collection
language: French
language: German
language: English
language: Czech
language: Russian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: Europe
coverage: Russia

1917: Digital Resources on the Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: personal narrative
description: Annotated bibliography of a number of digitized sources on the Russian Revolution. It links to a number of sites with documents, charts, posters, and photographs (among other resources) about the revolution.
creator: ASEEES
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917
format: Digital collection
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

1930–1933 жж. Қазақстандағы ашаршылық (1930-1933. Famine in Kazakhstan)
subject: Kazakh Famine
subject: nationalities
subject: migration
subject: collectivization
subject: sedentarization
description: Online database on victims of the Kazakh Famine of the 1930s, developed by the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan.
creator: Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-1933
format: Online database
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

1939 год. От "умиротворения" к войне (The Year 1939: From Appeasement to War )
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: appeasement
subject: Munich agreement
subject: invasion
subject: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
subject: World War Ⅱ
description: An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the politics of appeasement.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
creator: Russian State Military Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1939
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe
coverage: Germany

75 лет Победы (75 Years of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: evacuation
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: partisan
subject: guerilla warfare
subject: everyday life
subject: children
subject: industrial development
subject: light industry
subject: sport
subject: culture
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: education
subject: trade
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
creator: Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Tikhvin
coverage: Kronshtadt

75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art
subject: everyday life
subject: Communism
subject: youth
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: children
subject: nationalities
subject: propaganda
subject: military
subject: education
subject: technology
subject: science
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital collection of Soviet children's books and posters on various themes.
creator: The University of Chicago Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989: 20 Years Later
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: foreign policy
subject: foreign relations
description: A documentary exhibit about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is a tribute to the late Russian historian Gen. A. A. Lyakhovsky, and contains a few official documents (like Politburo meeting sessions), correspondence, etc. relating to the war. All documents were translated into English.
creator: George Washington University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1985-1989
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Afghanistan

Akhiva Digitală a Republicii Sovietice Socialiste Moldoveneşti (Digital Archive of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova)
subject: culture
subject: press
subject: youth
subject: agriculture
subject: atheism
subject: art
subject: cinema
subject: children
subject: demographics
subject: economy
subject: ecology
subject: education
subject: women
subject: folklore
subject: history
subject: law
subject: literature
subject: poetry
subject: music
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of various types of published materials from the Moldova SSR.
creator: Vitalie Sprinceana
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1924-1991
format: Digital project
language: Romanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Moldova

Alexander Palace Time Machine
subject: Nicholas II
subject: imperial family
description: A public history resource about the Alexander Palace and the fate of Nicholas II and his family. It contains photographs, personal accounts, official documents, etc. on these topics.
creator: Bob Atchinson
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1868-1918
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

All Soviet Movies on RVISION YouTube Channel
subject: film
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Gorky Film Studio
subject: cinema
subject: literature & arts
description: A YouTube channel that presents Soviet movies produced by the Gorky Film Studio.
creator: Gorky Film Studio
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1924-1991
format: YouTube channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Americans in the Land of Lenin: Photographs of Early Soviet Russia
subject: everyday life
subject: American Expeditionary Force
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
description: A Duke University exhibit of photographs taken between 1918 and 1930 by two Americans, officer Robert L. Eichelberger and economist Frank Whitson Fetter, who had the opportunity to visit the USSR during that time. The photographs reveal aspects of everyday social and economic life.
creator: Duke University Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1919-1930
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

André Savine Collection
subject: White Army
subject: emigre
subject: André Savine
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: personal narrative
description: The André Savine Collection is composed of several large sub-collections documenting the lives of Russian exiles. The most distinguished of these, named by Savine “Militaria,” documents the life of the Russian White Army in Gallipoli and beyond.
creator: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Libraries
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1983
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Appearances of Soviet Leaders
subject: CIA
subject: intelligence
subject: United States
subject: foreign relations
description: A publication of the CIA that provides a record of the known appearances of selected Soviet political leaders.
creator: Central Intelligence Agency
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1968-1988
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA

Archival Documents of the State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
subject: KGB
subject: security service
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Western Ukrainian People's Republic
subject: Ukrainian question
subject: secret police
subject: political institution
description: Document collections on various topics based on Ukrainian foreign intelligence service records.
creator: State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1954
format: Digital document collection
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

Archival Sources (Osmikon)
subject: Europe
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: international relations
subject: global
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: personal narrative
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: French
language: Czech
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

Archive of The Atlantic
subject: Revolution
subject: press
subject: propaganda
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: everyday life
subject: political institution
subject: women
subject: children
subject: family
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: religion
subject: intellectual
subject: culture
subject: theater
subject: Cold War
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: music
subject: foreign relations
subject: UN
subject: nuclear war
subject: economy
subject: literature & arts
description: Full-text digital archive of The Atlantic, containing all of its issues from 1857 till today. The journal extensively reported on the Soviet Union on various topics. More than 3000 articles on the Soviet Union can be found in the digital archive.
creator: The Atlantic
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: China
coverage: Germany
coverage: Far East

Archive of film and photo documents (RU) YouTube Channel
subject: architecture
subject: public health
subject: education
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: religion
subject: festival
subject: leisure
subject: pandemic
subject: sport
description: The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, currently containing more than 160 historical movie clips.
creator: Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: YouTube channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
subject: international relations
subject: Cold War
subject: foreign policy
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: military
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
creator: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: US
coverage: global
coverage: China

Armenian Early Printed Books 1901-1920
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: book
subject: education
subject: history
subject: nationalities
subject: religion
description: A database of digital copies of Armenian books printed between 1901-1920.
creator: National Library of Armenia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1901-1920
format: Online database
format: Digital library
language: Armenian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Armenia
coverage: UK
coverage: France
coverage: USA
coverage: Russia
coverage: South Caucasus

Avant-garde archives VK Group
subject: avant-garde
subject: art
subject: literature
subject: Mayakovsky
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Azerbaijan film YouTube Channel
subject: film
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: cinema
subject: national culture
subject: folklore
subject: fairy tale
subject: cartoon
subject: literature & arts
description: The official YouTube Channel of the Azerbaijanfilm Film Studio, where you can find Soviet movies of various genres produced in Azerbaijan.
creator: Film Studio "Azerbaijanfilm"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-post-1991
format: YouTube channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: Azerbaijani
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: South Caucasus

Ber Borochov Internet Archive
subject: Ber Borochov
subject: Jewish
subject: Marxism
description: Internet archive with the works of Marxist Zionist Ber Borochov (1881-1917). It contains a number of his works and links to other relevant websites.
creator: Ber Borochov Internet Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1881-1917
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Blinken OSA Library
subject: human rights
subject: Communism
subject: foreign relations
subject: Cold War
subject: politics
subject: legal source
subject: law
subject: everyday life
subject: economy
subject: general
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
description: 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 languages. Most of the items were created by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute.
creator: Central European University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1884-2018
format: Digital library
language: English
language: Russian
language: Polish
language: German
language: Hungarian
language: Czech
language: French
language: Romanian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Czechoslovakia
coverage: Poland
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Romania
coverage: Yugoslavia
coverage: East Germany
coverage: Albania
coverage: China
coverage: Austria
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Latvia
coverage: US
coverage: UK
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: other
coverage: Afghanistan

Books of International Memorial (Books of International Memorial)
subject: Great Terror
subject: family
subject: deportation
subject: Ostarbeiter
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Volga German
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
subject: purge
description: Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1960
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Siberia

Bush and Gorbachev at Malta: Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later
subject: Cold War
subject: Gorbachev
subject: Malta summit
subject: foreign relations
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: The documents include the most complete transcript of the Malta summit ever published – excerpted from the forthcoming book, "Masterpieces of History": The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 (edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok for the Central European University Press). The transcript is a translation of the Soviet record from the Gorbachev Foundation, since the U.S. memcons remain, astonishingly, still classified at the George H.W. Bush Library in Texas.
creator: National Security Archive, George Washington University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1989
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA