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Digital library that contains digital copies of Ukrainian diaspora publications from the pre-revolution period through the post-Soviet era.
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
Digitized document collection on the Korean War, originally compiled by Shen Zhihua, a Chinese historian, and published in Taiwan. The collection contains more than 1400 pages of Chinese translations of Russian archival documents on the subject.
Full catalog of publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
The digital library of the Institute of Russian Literature of the RAS, providing free access to digital copies of the Institute's publications and other literary studies publications.
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
A small collection of Soviet posters.
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
This digital collection presents visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground within the archives of the secret police in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection features confiscated photographs, surveillance photographs,…
Digital library of Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library, containing a huge number of digital copies of Soviet books, periodicals, and photographs about the Irkutsk region.
Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
Digital collection of documents on Russian Marxists, Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and Soviet power. Here you can find transcripts of Politburo meetings between 1925-1927, a time that saw shifting power relations between Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev; a 1922 article on the creation of the Red…
Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) was a Russian-language journal (printed in Cyrillic characters) launched by Leon Trotsky in July 1929 after his expulsion from the USSR. It was the printed organ of the Russian section of the Fourth International and a weapon of Trotsky in his…
LiveJournal page of a website "Istoriia gosudarstva", dedicated to the study of Russian and Soviet history. The LiveJournal blog often shares primary source materials on various topics.
Digital archive of the Soviet journal "Iunost'".
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
A digital project developed by a team of James Madison College faculty and librarians from MSU on the collapse of the USSR and the early years of statehood of the Soviet successor states. The digitized materials collected for these events include contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Russian and in…
Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
A small collection of English translations of different Soviet legal documents.
Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
Digital copies of issues of Izvestiia of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR
Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
Document collection on the Russian Civil War in Siberia, published by the State Archival Administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast and the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
Digital library of the Kamchatka Krasheninnikov Regional Scientific Library. It is a very region-specific project and provides access to digitized imperial Russian, Soviet, and contemporary publications on Kamchatka and the people there.
A section on the local study of Kamchatka on the website of the Kamchatka Krasheninnikov Regional Scientific Library. It provides links to downloadable PDF versions of publications on the ethnic minorities of Kamchatka. Many of these publications are Soviet ethnographic studies.
Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
Official website of Kir Bulychev, a Soviet and Russian sci fi writer. Here one can find a bibliography of Bulychev's works; a set of illustrations to his works can be found under "illiustratsii k proizvedeniiam"; "fotoal'bom" contains photographs of the author; interviews can be found under…
Digital Japanese newspaper clippings collection developed by the Kobe University Library, providing open-access to articles from various Japanese newspapers published in the 20th century. Many articles are related to Japanese-Soviet-Chinese relations.
Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.
Digital collection of Soviet documents on Soviet-West German relations during the Brezhnev era.
Digital archive of the satirical journal "Krokodil".
A website dedicated to the Kumyk people, their history and culture. Some transcriptions of archival documents and historical photographs can be found in different sections of the website.
Digital library of Kurgan Oblast Scientific Library, containing digital copies of many pre-revolution and Soviet books and periodical issues.
A YouTube playlist consisting of Soviet Kyrgyz films produced by Kirgizfilm.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
A YouTube playlist of Soviet films and TV series produced by Lenfilm. One can find many Soviet film and TV classics here, such as the TV series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson".
A YouTube playlist of Soviet films and TV series produced by Lenfilm. One can find many Soviet film classics here, such as "Chapaev" (1934).
Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
Digitized memoirs about Lenin.
A website dedicated to Lenin and Leninism, where you can find digitized books and articles, memoirs, and studies on Lenin, many of which were published during the Soviet times. You can also download the digitized full collection of Lenin's works on this website.
The link takes one to the page of the Library of Congress collections for the keyword "Soviet Union" filtered by those materials available online. One can also search this library for other keywords using various filters (on the left) in order to narrow the search.
A huge digital library of the Library of Congress, containing many files from Russia and the former Soviet Union, including books, periodicals, photographs, paintings, maps, etc.
Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and…
An American, James Maxwell Pringle was in Russia on business for the First National City Bank of New York in 1917 and 1918. His photographs document scenes of the Russian Revolution, and his trip through eastern Russia, China, and Korea to Japan
A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.