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Document collection dedicated to Soviet artwork during the Great Patriotic War, published by the State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast.
A YouTube playlist of Soviet films produced by the film studio "Tajikfilm" and other Tajikistan-related videos.
TEHNE is a digital portal for Russian architects and designers supported by the Union of Architects of Russia and the Union of Designers of Russia. Its digital library provides open access to a great number of Soviet-era publications on architecture, urban planning, aesthetics, and art in general.
Digital archive of the Soviet literary journal "Smena".
Memoirs of Gulag prisoners or their descendants.
Digital texts of Andrei Sakharov's publications, public speeches, interview transcriptions, and memoirs.
Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
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.
Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
Photographs of Lithuanian anti-Soviet fighters and postwar deportees.
Several digital projects of the Gorbachev Foundation focusing on the collapse of the USSR and the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, largely based on personal accounts and old photographs.
Digitized documents from the archive of Yegor Gaidar, including plentiful interesting documents on the Soviet economy, foreign relations, and other questions, especially on the late Soviet period.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Here you can find numerous free-access materials produced in or related to the Soviet Union, including tons of English-language files.
Archive of personal correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva.
A huge digital collection of church manuscripts and old books from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
Digital exhibits from the Aleksandr Shilov Gallery.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Kuz'minki-Liublino.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of the Defense of Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the Memorial Museum of Astronautics.
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Digital exhibits from the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School.
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
Digital exhibits from the State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum.
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky.
Digital exhibits from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Digital exhibits from the Cinema Club-Museum "El'dar".
Digital exhibits from the Ilia Glazunov Gallery.
Digital exhibits from the Bourganov House.
Digital exhibits from the Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery .
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Virtual exhibitions of the Museum-Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad", featuring various war-related materials.
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
Oral history project of the Museum of Gulag history that recollects memories of the people who were affected by Soviet political repressions. Interviewees include the repressed themselves, their children, former NKVD members, Children of NKVD members, the dekulakized, deportees, and labor armyists.
Integrated digital archival information system of Poland, containing digital copies of materials from various Polish archives. You can find many materials related to the Soviet Union and Polish-Soviet relations on this site.
Digital project developed by the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise, presenting digital copies of rare publications from/on Ukraine.
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.
Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
Digital archive of the newspaper "Sovetskaia kul'tura".
Photographs of Birobidzhan in the 1930s.
Topics include the building of the Russian navy, the Russian Civil War, the Baltic Fleet, etc.
Digital archive of the Second Historical Archives of China, currently containing digital copies of the documents of the Beiyang government and the digital catalog of documents from the Ministry of Education of the Guomindang government. A few documents are related to Soviet Russia and are available…
The former East German State Security (Stasi) Archive. Thousands of documents and items are available online now, many of which are related to Soviet-East German relations.
Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
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.