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Online exhibit collection of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve.
Full-text databases of Novgorod Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing more than 200 downloadable Soviet publications from/about Novgorod Oblast.
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.
Digital collection of journals and newspapers, mostly published in the Soviet era. Here you can access many important Soviet periodicals freely, such as Ogonek, Literaturnaia gazeta, and Sovetskii Soiuz.
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
A YouTube playlist of 140 Soviet and Ukrainian comedies produced by the Odesa Film Studio.
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…
Digital archival system of the archives of Lithuania, where you can easily access extensive digitized archival documents and finding aids of Lithuanian state archives.
This digital archive provides access to digitized documents on Lithuanian partisans during 1944-1953, who participated in armed resistance against the Soviet regime.
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
A website dedicated to the history of propaganda around the world in all historical periods. The website contains a section on Soviet propaganda, where many primary source materials are presented.
Digital copy of historian Omeljan Pritsak's inaugural lecture on the Origin of Rus' at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 1975, shared by Steven Seegel on Twitter.
Digital library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library.
Digital library of Orenburg Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing the digital copies of thousands of local publications.
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…
Digital collection of publications from/on Oryol Oblast.
Digital map collections and geographical databases on Russia, East and Southeast Europe
Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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.
Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
Digital collection of films, writings, photographs, posters, and other materials relating to (and created by) the Soviet filmmaking pioneer and theorist Dziga Vertov (1896–1954).
Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
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.
Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
Digital library that contains digital copies of books on the Perm region, many of which were published during the Soviet times. The website also has information on local writers and individuals who contributed to the study of the Perm region.
Digital library of the Perm State Library of Maksim Gorky, containing a lot of interesting publications from the Russian imperial times through the contemporary era. Apart from extensive publications in Russian, the digital library also provides access to publications in the Komi-Permyak language.
A very helpful digital portal that includes various digital projects, databases, and online exhibitions based on archival materials from the Perm region. Both thematic and chronological coverages of the projects in the digital reading room are quite extensive.
An information portal that contains extensive data on the WWⅡ experience of the Perm region.
Online exhibitions of archival documents on various topics.
Several old video clips from the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History.
Extensive online exhibits and projects based on archival materials from the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History as well as materials from other sources, covering plenty of social, political, economic, and cultural topics.
An extensive collection of publications of the Perm State Archive of socio-political History, among which many are freely downloadable document collections and memoirs on various topics.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet and contemporary cartoons produced by Soiuzmul'tfil'm and Pilot studios.
Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
A Russian federal project aimed at "retain the historical memory about the tragedy of the peaceful population of the USSR - victims of the war crimes of nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War." Under the framework of the project, archives across Russia have published a series of…
A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
Collection of Soviet posters.
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
Digital library of the Primorsky Krai Public Library. It provides open access to extensive digital copies of local publications of the Soviet period as well as the Russian imperial period.
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…
Vozrozhdenie was a Russian-language daily newspaper published in Paris, France, founded in 1925. The newspaper was anti-Communist and circulated amongst the Russian diaspora around the world.
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,…
Digital library of Pskov Oblast Universal Scientific Library, where you can read extensive Soviet-era local publications online.
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.