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The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. Many newspaper articles are related to the Soviet Union. Notably,…
Digital library of the Murmansk State Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing extensive digitized local books, periodicals, and other types of materials.
Digital exhibits of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
Digital exhibits of the Museum of the Political History of Russia.
Thematic document collection on the Revolution and Civil War in the Altai region.
Digital library of the N.A. Nekrasov Library, containing tons of digitized pre- and post-1917 publications that can be viewed online.
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Khakassia, containing many interesting publications in Russian and Khakassian languages: local publications from the Soviet period, materials on Khakassian folklore and local cultural development, etc.
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.
Website dedicated to Andrei Shingarev, one of the leaders of the Russian Constitutional Democratic party.
Transcriptions of a set of archival documents on Soviet party organization and other issues.
Several online exhibitions of archival documents on the Great Patriotic War and Soviet Belarusian intellectuals.
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, mainly covering local history.
Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
Digital archive of documents and materials on Karelian culture.
A list of digital projects of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia.
Digital project presenting archival documents on the Karelian Labor Commune. The project also has a database of Karelian refugees who fled to Finland from Karelia as a result of the Russian Russian Civil War.
Documents and photographs related to Jaakko Rugojev, a Soviet Karelian writer.
Documents and photographs on the development of the theater industry in Karelia from pre-revolution times through the early 2000s.
Documents, photographs, and artworks related to Konstatin Butorov, a Soviet Karelian artist.
This digital reading room provides access to digital finding aids for documents in the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia. However, you can only access the documents per se in person at the archive.
Topics include local cultural development, national culture, religion, education, Cossacks, etc.
Publications of the National Archive of Khakassia, among which some document collections are freely downloadable.
Digital projects of the National Archive of Khakassia, among which some present quite extensive archival documents and old photographs about the Great Patriotic War and the urban development of the region.
Digital project dedicated to the participation of people from Khakassia in the Great Patriotic War. The project presents a considerable number of archival documents, photographs, and veterans' memoirs.
Digital catalog of the National Archives of the United States. Here you can find open-access records from different US governmental agencies on Soviet issues.
Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the…
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.
Digital film and sound archive of the National Archives of Estonia. Here you can find thousands of Soviet Estonian movies as well as sound recordings. Movies can be played on the website directly.
Information portal of the National Archives of Estonia, where you can find links to various digital archives, digital libraries, online databases, and digital projects of Estonian archives.
Photo database of the National Archives of Estonia, containing a huge number of photographs from different periods.
A huge database of maps and other cartographic materials published in the territory of Estonia in different periods.
A web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
A digital project that presents more than 1000 archival records of the 19th-20th centuries about Germans living in Georgia and Transcaucasia.
Biographical data of more than 15,000 people in the Society for Spreading Literacy among Georgians from its founding until its liquidation, in 1879-1927.
A digital project presenting extensive documents related to the First Republic of Georgia.
Integrated digital archive of Hungary's major archives. Here you can find digital copies or digital transcriptions of many Communist-era documents related to Soviet-Hungarian relations.
Digital archive of documents of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvia SSR, containing extensive documents about the structure, personnel, and operation of the KGB in Latvia.
A database that collects information related to the historical heritage of the diaspora in Latvia and the world. This heritage consists of the documents of both individuals and organizations, covering the period from the years of the Second World War to the regaining of Latvia's independence.
The database contains lists of persons who were deported from Latvia to distant territories of the USSR by the Soviet regime between 1941 and 1953.
A few well-organized online exhibitions of documents from Latvian archives, many of which are dedicated to Soviet political repressions in Latvia.
A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
Online database of the official texts of legislation of Uzbekistan from 1925 till today.
A database of more than 3,500 officially published legal acts of the BSSR.
A digital collection of key legal documents, including constitutional laws, international agreements, criminal laws, and economic laws, in the history of Belarus.
National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
Collection of imperial Russian and Soviet magazines for children.
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…