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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, covering various topics in local history.
The collection of cartographic materials consists of 11,868 items, including 9,039 maps, and 2,829 atlases.
Online database of Armenian periodicals and serial publications from the pre-revolution period through the contemporary times. It includes many Soviet-era journal issues and book series.
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,…
Kogu Me Lugu (translates into Collect Our Story, We're Collecting The Story, also Our Entire Story) is an online oral history portal that collects, preserves and shares the family stories of Estonians from around the world in video format. The project focuses on the memories of people who were…
Digital archive of the Oxford Russian Life History Project, providing access to transcripts and audio recordings of the project's oral history interviews.
"The Paper Currency & Banknotes database features detailed descriptions and images of over 600 numismatic pieces found in the André Savine Collection. Pieces in the numismatics sub-collection consist primarily of paper currency and other forms of scrip such as banknotes, loan obligations, and…
Extensive collection of digitized historical and CIA maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Library of the University of Texas at Austin, including maps of Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
Database of the Central Archive of Film and Photographic Documents of Georgia, where you can search and browse historical photographs of the country.
Two poster collections of the London School of Economics Digital Library, one on Soviet childcare, the other on British Labour Delegation to Russia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Collection of Soviet posters.
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…
Project "J-Doc" focuses on state policies of the USSR that affected Jews. It provides free access to various types of sources, including archival documents, periodicals, and oral history interviews.
A project that collects and presents materials about the experience of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the USSR.
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
The collection contains 58 unique audio files that were produced and/or broadcast by RFE/RL’s Russian Service.
The official YouTube Channel of the Kazakhfilm Film Studio, where you can find hundreds of Soviet movies of various genres produced in Kazakhstan.
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
Resolution of the Azerbaijan SSR Council of Ministers "On the approval of the Model Rules for registering citizens who need to improve housing conditions and allocating residential areas in the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR"
Digital exhibition of Russian archival documents on Soviet domestic political system and US-Soviet relations.
A digital project, mostly for educational purposes, where a new primary document pertaining to the history of Germans in Russia is posted each month.
Russian and Eurasian collections at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Though most items in the collections are not available online, users can still access thousands of Soviet posters and western radio broadcast records related to the USSR online.
A collection of Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938.
Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
Digital collection of Soviet-era fine art works.
A site collecting Soviet and Russian films. This site links to numerous free sites with Russian/Soviet films that can be watched online, sometimes with subtitles in English and a variety of other global languages.
Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the…
A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
A collection of Russian posters from 1919-1989 from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.
Page from an educational site about the Russian Revolution. It includes numerous major documents relating to the events of the revolution in English translation.
Webpage with resources for the study of Soviet history on the site of the Brigham University Harold B. Lee Library. It contains a list of links to various open access resources with documents, photographs, and audio recordings in both Russian and English.
A module on the website of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education that contains information on the history of German-speaking populations in Russia (and the Soviet Union more broadly) during the 20th century. A section of this module contains primary source documents from the post-World War…
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian movies produced by the Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
Digitized archival documents from the National Archives of Estonia. Though most documents are from the pre-1940 period, one can still find a lot of Soviet-era documents from this website.
Historian Sergey Abashin's academic page on academia.edu, where he has uploaded thousands of Soviet academic publications, including monographs and articles, mostly on Central Eurasia, ethnicities, ethnography and anthropology.
Facebook page of Sergey Prudovskiy, a Russian historian and a former staff member of International Memorial. He is the administrator of a Facebook group "Remembering the GULAG" and often posts images of Soviet archival documents on Soviet political repressions.
A multi-media archive of primary source materials designed to introduce students and the general public to the richness and contradictions of Soviet history. It provides a cross-section of Soviet life in seventeen different years, following the title of a beloved television spy serial from the…
Site with numerous military maps that describe the events of the Great Patriotic War.
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.
Soviet archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky on various domestic political and foreign policy issues.
A Princeton University digital library of Soviet children's books from 1918-1938.
A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
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 VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet funk, soul, jazz, and disco.
Digital archive of English-language primary source documents, essays, books, and personal accounts related to Soviet history. Some of these are original English documents and accounts, some are English translations of Russian-language originals. The website also provides free access to digitized…
Digital collection of around 6000 black and white photos intended to document the reconstruction of the Soviet Union following World War II. These photos provide a visual record of daily life, culture, and news at the start of the Cold War. The collection also contains a few earlier photographs.
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…
English-language journal about the Soviet Union, published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.
Digital collection of Soviet pamphlets on different topics.
A small collection of Soviet posters.