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Digital archive of works of Solomon Telingater, a famous Soviet graphic artist.
Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
Full-text database of Volgograd Oblast Gorkiy Universal Scientific Library, containing a few Soviet-era books.
A complex of digital exhibitions and projects based on archival documents from the Vologda Oblast Archive of Contemporary Political History, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Interesting digital library of Vologda Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing thousands of digitized books and periodicals, and more other types of materials. It also has several interesting thematic collections, such as "Russian forest" and "Russian America". Notably, the digital library…
Online exhibition of artwork dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Digital collection of published materials on the ethnography and folklore of the Russian North, including the territories of Vologda Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Republic of Komi.
Digital library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing a considerable number of digitized books and periodicals. Particularly, it has not only oblast-level but also raion-level periodicals.
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…
This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a…
Online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history, consisting of audio recordings of Soviet and world leaders' speeches, radio broadcasts, and other audio materials.
Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
Online database of laws of the USSR from 1917 till 1991.
Digital archive of Sergei Yesenin's personal correspondence.
Yabloko party's digital collection of historical articles and books on Russian liberalism, culture, intelligentsia, and other political topics.
Digital archive containing 20th-Century US legal documents on American diplomacy. You can find many documents on Soviet-US relations here.
Documents selected as ancillary material the Editor Projects associated with the Stalin Digital Archive.
Open-access archival documents on Stalinist Great Terror.
"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…
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…
Open-access digital library containing digital copies of a considerable number of books and periodicals on architecture published in the Soviet Union.
Digital project of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The digital library provides open access to digital copies of hundreds of thousands of books, periodicals, and other types of materials from different libraries in Kazakhstan. The collection includes a huge…
Database of copyright certificates and patents for inventions issued in the USSR.
A collection of TV and radio programs in Russia, the former Soviet Union, as well as other world countries from 1950 till today. Data on Russia are the most comprehensive, while data on other countries are inconsistent.
Collection of Soviet postcards from different periods and regions.
Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors,…
A civil digital project initiated by the descendants of the victims of Soviet political repressions in Orsha, Belarus. The project has collected documents related to the victims and conducted oral history interviews with the descendants or relatives of the victims. You can find the transcriptions of…
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Here you can find hundreds of thousands of documents and publications, in various languages, that were published in the Soviet Union or about the…
A YouTube channel dedicated to Soviet films. Here one can find hundreds of films of various genres produced in different regions of the USSR. Most films on this channel were produced before the 1950s.
A YouTube channel presenting Soviet and contemporary Russian cartoons and children's films.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet films, TV programs, and theater productions.
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.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares academic information and resources about the socio-political processes in the countries of the East (by their definition, any non-Western countries). The group often shares Soviet books, articles, and other sources relevant to the subject.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials for Chinese studies, among which many are Soviet scholarship.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous Soviet academic, popular science, as well as propagandistic books (not always scientific, as the group's name alleges, but atheistic).
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous digitized Soviet publications on bourgeois propaganda and popular psychology. Many books shared there were published in the Cold War context.
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet Marxist literature in different languages of Soviet nationalities.
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library of Russian-language publications on Marxism and relevant subjects. Here one can find numerous digitized Soviet publications on Marxism and relevant social-political and economic issues.
Digital project that presents numerous digitized Soviet school textbooks.
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet funk, soul, jazz, and disco.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet caricatures, clippings from satirIcal magazines of the USSR, and Soviet cartoons.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
A website dedicated to Soviet films, where users can watch Soviet movies and cartoons online, listen to radio plays and music from films, and browse relevant posters and photographs.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares cartoons produced in communist Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other Eastern European countries. Videos shared here are mostly dubbed in Russian.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.