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Digital museum presenting thousands of exhibits, archival documents, and photographs on the history of Gulag and Soviet political repression.
Audio recording of memoirs on the secret celebration of Easter in Soviet Solovki prison camp.
Oral history interviews with former Gulag prisoners, their children, former exiles, and dispossessed kulaks
The official YouTube channel of Fond Iofe, which presents oral history interviews on Soviet political repressions.
Collection of English translations of Soviet documents and leaders' speeches on the Russian Revolution, the establishment of the Bolshevik power, and Stalinism.
Digital archive of Foreign Affairs editions from 1922 till today, including many articles related to the Soviet Union.
Document collections and other publications of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, based on the agency's declassified archival documents. Currently, this page provides free access to one document collection dedicated to Europe and the USSR during 1935-1945.
A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
Information portal on the Leningrad Blockade that unites three databases: "Blokada Leningrada. Evakuatsiia", which is a database on individuals evacuated from Leningrad during the Blockade; memory book "Blokada"; and the Russian State Information System "Pamiat' naroda". Links to the three databases…
The virtual reading room of the National Security Archive (George Washington University), containing documents about American-Soviet relations, the Cold War, and other Soviet events relevant to U.S. national security.
A documentary exhibit about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is a tribute to the late Russian historian Gen. A. A. Lyakhovsky, and contains a few official documents (like Politburo meeting sessions), correspondence, etc. relating to the war. All documents were translated into English.
A site with postcards and photographs from old Samara, including from the early Soviet period.
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 site devoted to 1980s resistance movements in Eastern Europe and the events leading up to 1989. It contains official documents, American intelligence files, photographs, posters, and other documents.
A Dutch-Russian joint project containing Russian historical statistics from the imperial and Soviet periods.
The official YouTube channel of the Gorky Film Studio, which produced many famous Soviet movies and TV series, such as "17 Moments of Spring".
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet movies produced by the Gorky Film Studio.
The official VK page of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs, where you can find numerous video and audio materials of the Soviet era.
English-language journal that provides information about Soviet economy, published by the State Bank of the USSR.
Transcript of three interviews with Emil' Ershov, a prominent Soviet economist. The interviews touch upon a series of topics related to the Soviet economy, science, and the relationship between the two.
A site containing the letters of Nikolai Gumilev, influential poet and white military officer. It includes a few letters from the Soviet period.
Photographs, manuscripts, paintings, and biographic information of Nikolai Gumilev. Published works, including Gumiliev's memoirs and others' memoirs about him, can also be found under the "biografiia i vospominaniia" tab on the left.
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.
Open-access digital collections of Harvard Library, containing many digitized books, periodicals, maps, archival documents, photographs, and other types of primary source materials for researching Soviet history in various languages.
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early…
A digital collection of photographs, posters, political cartoons, art, etc. about Joseph Stalin on the site of the University of Pittsburgh Library System.
Digital library that contains digital books, periodicals, photographs, videos, and audio materials on the history, people, and culture of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the city of Birobidzhan.
Publications of the Historical Archive of Omsk Oblast, many of which are freely downloadable document collections. Many collections are dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
A digital exhibit of archival documents related to Russian and Soviet diplomacy during the events of 1917. It includes diplomatic correspondence, photographs, and other types of documents.
Several downloadable document collections published by the Foreign Ministry Archive of Russia.
A page with primary documents on 20th century Russia on the site of the History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, including numerous major official documents.
A YouTube channel dedicated to Russian/Soviet and world history. It presents numerous historical video materials, documentaries, oral history interviews, and educational resources (lectures, etc.)
Painting of Ivan Alekseevich Vladimirov (1869-1947), a Russian painter and draftsman of the realistic school of painting.
Digital collections of Hoover Institution Library and Archives, containing many Soviet posters, paintings, and English-language audio recordings related to Soviet topics from the 20th century.
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.
Digital collection of manuscripts of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Three-volume bibliography of historical documents published in Russia/the USSR over the 20th century, published by Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishers (ROSSPEN).
Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often…
Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Digital library that provides free access to a great number of digital copies of Russian books and periodicals. You can also find audio recordings of authors reading their own works on this website.
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
A civic project that collects and presents oral history interviews, photographs, archival documents, and other materials related to Soviet political repressions in Belarus.
Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
Digital project developed by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes aimed at documenting political repression against Czechoslovaks in the Soviet Union. Currently, the project website has published testimonies of survivors, specialist and popularising articles, databases, exhibitions…
Demographic data of the former Soviet states as well as other world countries provided by the Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economy. Here you can find different demographic indicators for 15 former Soviet states in different years and detailed Soviet census data.
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
Official website of the Institute of History of Ukraine, which presents a lot of useful digital resources. It provides access to digitized encyclopedias of the history of Ukraine published in different years. Its digital library contains full-text academic publications - books and periodicals - on…
Digital archive of documents related to Andrei Ershov, a prominent Soviet academic of information science.