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Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
A small collection of Soviet posters.
Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
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 archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
Archival documents, including author bio, letters, and official documents, related to Osip Mandelstam.
Annual publication of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1970. Digital copies of table of contents from 1980 are freely downloadable on this web page.
Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
Photograph collections of the International Memorial on Soviet political repressions and civil activism.
Digitized lists of persons who were repressed under Stalin.
Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
The Chronicle of Current Events is a type-written, informational bulletin of Soviet human rights activists, published from 1968 to 1983. This website provides online transcripts of the content of the bulletin.
A set of oral history and memory projects on Soviet political repression and terror.
Digital collection of audio recordings of Soviet politicians (mostly Lenin).
Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
Document collection dedicated to the relationship between Petrograd/Leningrad and the Krasnoyarsk region throughout the 20th century.
Digital project dedicated to the creators of Soviet front-line films during the Second World War. On this web page you can find archival documents, photographs, and video clips about Soviet front-line filmmaking.
Digitized photographs, posters, manuscripts, rare books, and other types of exhibits of the State Central Film Museum of Russia.
Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
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.
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.
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.
Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
Digital collection of Soviet posters.
The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
A digital project, mostly for educational purposes, where a new primary document pertaining to the history of Germans in Russia is posted each month.
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
A memory project conducted among families from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Perm. In each family extensive interviews were carried out with the oldest relatives, who were able to explain the context of their family archives and relate them to the family history. This represents a unique collection…
This is a site linking to multiple digitized collections of resources that include Eastern European/Russian materials. Most of these collections are pan-European, and some of them are cited elsewhere in this guide.
Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
Collection of English translations of Soviet documents and leaders' speeches on the Russian Revolution, the establishment of the Bolshevik power, and Stalinism.
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
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 created by Russian enthusiast of Volga German history Alexander Spak containing detailed information on the history of Volga German settlements until 1941, when the mass deportation of Soviet Germans to Siberia and Central Asia began amid the Nazi German invasion of the U.S.S.R., and on the…
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.
Selected Soviet-era publications dedicated to Aleksandra Pakhmutova, a Soviet and Russian composer.
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.