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This publication lists all the members of the Central Committee and the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were elected at different Congresses of the CPSU.
Digital library of the Central Scientific Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, containing many digitized Soviet publications, manuscripts in different languages, archival documents, as well as video materials.
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.
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…
Topics include the Great Terror and Soviet political repressions in the region, local cultural development, local intellectuals, etc.
Databases of the Central State Archive of Kirov Oblast, including the digital finding aids of the archive, a database on individuals evacuated to Kirov Oblast during the WWⅡ, a database on WWⅡ soldiers who passed away in hospitals of Kirov Oblast, as well as other databases on the imperial period.
Digital publications of the Central State Archive of Kirov Oblast, including several document collections on the Great Patriotic War and several referential materials on the archive's fonds and the region's Soviet political leaders.
Several digital document collections provided by the Central State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation of Kazakhstan on Kazakhstan's national scientists and scientific and technological development during the Soviet times.
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…
Online exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, based on extensive archival documents.
Digitized fonds information, finding aids, and some original documents of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine.
Digital archive containing more than 130,000 pages of digitized OSHR documents from the fonds of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine.
Downloadable document collections published by the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. Most of these collections are dedicated to Ukrainian People's Republic. Other topics include Holodomor and Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Ukraine.
Official website of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. There are many interesting document exhibitions under the "ВИСТАВКИ" section. In the "Збірники документів" sub-section, you can download PDF versions of many document collections published by the…
Digital archive containing thousands of digitized files from four fonds of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv, mainly covering topics on local education and church activities.
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…
A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
Collection of archival documents from different countries on the global Cold War. Documents have been translated into English.
Digital archive collectively developed by a series of Ukrainian cultural and academic institutions dedicated to Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital archive contains a library section, where you can download digitized copies of works of M. Hrushevsky and studies on him. In the archival section, you can…
A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
Oral history interview with Mr. Denys Stavnychyi by St. Andrew's Episcopal School Student Conrad Osipowicz. In this interview Stavnychyi, who lived in the Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, reiterates the seriousness of the tragedy and reflects on the inefficiency of the…
Archival collections of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest contain Hungarian documents on the Soviet bloc, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sino-Soviet relations, Soviet-Afghan War, and other Cold War issues. Documents have been translated into English.
A Princeton University digital library of Soviet children's books from 1918-1938.
Collection of archival documents related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
A site devoted to the life and work of Russian philosopher Ivan Il'in, who worked in Russia before 1922 and spent much of the Soviet period in exile. It contains official documents relating to his work, personal correspondence, and some of his works.
A collection of Russian posters from 1919-1989 from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.
140 posters, Krokodil covers, and clippings, most created by members of the Fighting Pencil (Boevoi karandash) artists’ collective, satirizing bureaucratic abuses and inefficiencies during the last decades of the Soviet period.
A website with a large number of digital copies of publications on Uzbek language, literature, and folklore. Many of these publications are contemporary works, but there is also a large amount of Soviet publications on the website. Apart from literary works and literary scholarship, the website also…
A website on the Venev Uezd in Tula Oblast containing local historical sources, including books and newspapers.
A published collection of archival documents about Nazi German punitive operations on the Belarus-Latvian border zones in 1943.
A database of information about Belarusian villages burnt during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
Digitized collection of archival documents about Belarusian villages burned during the Great Patriotic War.
Collection of primary source materials related to the history of Zaprozhzhia. Soviet-era documents include local periodicals, construction plans, photographs, and archival documents from city administrations.
An online library of laws and legal studies. It provides open access to Soviet and Russian legal sources and legal literature.
Digital project dedicated to Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. On the website, you can download the digital copies of his major works and browse photos, videos, and documents about the scholar.
Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.
A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users…
A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.
A YouTube playlist with hundreds of Soviet Georgian films.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Tajik films.
A YouTube playlist with numerous Soviet Turkmen films.
A YouTube playlist of more than 200 Soviet films and TV series produced by Dovzhenko Film Studio in Ukraine.
A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
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.
The official digital archive of the journal "Nauka i zhizn'", which provides free access to a limited number of digitized Soviet-era issues.
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.