samizdat
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Amal'rik
Aleksandr Sviashch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vladimir Albrecht
Vladimir Bukovsky
Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
"Vekhi" Library
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
USSR
#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Great Patriotic War
Cold War
Perestroika
New Economic Policy
A VK page devoted to various historical sources. It contains a motley group of sources on various topics in Russian history (each post is on a separate theme) and is mostly made up of the posts of "student-istorik," an account for humor and educational resources created by students of the Moscow State University historical faculty.
@student-istorik
Digital document collection
Russia
Jewish
anti-Semitism
nationality
culture
war
military
World War II
propaganda
education
women
holiday
festival
political leader
religion
Judaism
POW
holocaust
architecture
personal narrative
The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of various types.
Len Blavatnik
Digital archive
English
German
Yiddish
Ukrainian
Polish
other
Germany
France
Ukraine
Lithuania
Poland
Austria
Belarus
Czech Republic
Israel
Uzbekistan
Europe
Asia
Central Asia
Latvia
Kazakhstan
Georgia
South Caucasus
Estonia
Baltics
Eastern Europe
China
Azerbaijan
Hungary
Bulgaria
Moldova
Romania
Mongolia
Stalin
personal cult
Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
1953
Digital project
Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
A. P. Anashkin et al.
Altai Krai
art
painting
literature & arts
Digital collections on the site of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum. They contain images of art from Russia and Western Europe during various historical periods, but can be filtered by country and/or date of creation to find Soviet art.
A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
Digital collection
Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ) (The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB))
literature
humanities
folklore
Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Digital library of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing digital copies of Russian and Soviet literary publications, including literary works, literary studies, and literary journals editions, from the imperial period till today.
urban history
economy
sport
everyday life
agriculture
music
healthcare
infrastructure
army
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.
ABAmedia
Egypt
Cuba
global
ABDRAKHMANOVA TURSYNKHAN
Access through HOLLIS
In Soviet literature 3 (1979): 164-65.
1979
In Soviet literature 8 (1973): 121.
1973
Contemporary Soviet education: a collection of readings from Soviet journals. With an introd. by George S. Counts.
Education
Soviet Union
Ablin, Fred, comp.
International Arts and Sciences Press
1969
Education in the USSR: a collection of readings from Soviet journals
Ablin, Fred, ed.
1963
I accuse the Kremlin of genocide of my nation: based on the secret documents of the Military persecutors and N.K.V.D. of the U.S.S.R.
Byelorussians
Political atrocities
Persecutions
Abramcyk, Mikola.
Byelorussian Alliance in Canada
1950
Abramov, Fedor
Flegon Press in association with A. Blond
Ardis
1984
The new life: a day on a collective farm.
Grove Press
Praeger
Raduga Publishers
1986
ABYLKASYMOVA MAIRAMKAN
In Soviet literature 2 (1985): 128-29.
1985
“Schoolroom Desks”; “How abundant the flowers this spring!”
In Soviet literature 6 (1980): 16-17.
1980
The final assault: memoirs of a veteran who fought in the battle of Berlin.
Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia
Biography
World War, 1939-1945
Campaigns
Eastern Front
Soldiers
Battle of Berlin
Abyzov, V I
Personal narratives, Russian
Abyzov, V
Novosti Press Agency Pub. House
國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
intelligence
foreign relations
Sino-Soviet relations
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Manchuria
World War Ⅱ
Comintern
communism
trade
diplomacy
law
foreign policy
press
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
legal source
Digital archival search and reading system of the Academia Historica of Taiwan, where you can find a lot of interesting documents from the Guomindang government and officials about the Soviet Union and Sino-Soviet relations, particularly in the Republican period in China. Most documents can be read online.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Chinese
Japanese
Japan
國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
migration
espionage
White Army
Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
USA
蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Academic Historica (Taipei)
Access through Academic Historica
Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
science
local administration
social sciences
nationalities
local history
intellectual
natural science
Tatar
Digital library of the Kazan Federal University, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of local periodical issues, books, manuscripts, university publications, and other types of materials. In particular, it has a huge newspaper collection, where you can find digitized local newspapers in different languages from the pre-Revolution era to today.
Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
Kazan
Tatarstan
От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
soldiers
memory
Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation.
Nauka
Adamian, Nora
Foreign Languages Publishing House
195-
“The Zarshevan Doctor”; “How Her Life Began”.
In Soviet literature 1 (1954): 63-93.
1954
In Soviet literature 8 (1957): 67-125.
1957
From Helsinki to Belgrade : the Soviet Union and the implementation of the final act of the European Conference: documents and material.
Foreign relations
Defenses
Adamishin, A. L., ed.
Progress Publishers
1977
Adamovich, Ales’
1983
Progress
Khatyn; The punitive squads: the joy of the knife; or, The hyperboreans and how they live.
1988
Adamovich, Alesʹ, 1927-1994
The forgotten army: the experiences of Private Sam: Vladivostok, Siberia, 1918- 1919
Adams, Sam N. United States
Army
World War, 1914-1918
Personal narratives, American
History
Allied intervention, 1918- 1920.
Adams, Sam N
Check access on WorldCat
S.N.
From peace front to people’s war. [2d enl. ed.]
Communism
Sources
1917-
Adhikari, Gangadhar M. ed.
People’s Pub. House
1944
75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
Commemorative page for the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War on the official site of the Administration of the Ordzhonikidze Raion. It contains a few resources about the experience of the war by citizens of the district, as well as a few reference sources about the contents of relevant archives.
Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
Online exhibition
Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)
Afinogenov, A
Pushkin press
1941
On the eve; a play in three acts and five scenes.
Afinogenov, A (Aleksandr).
In Seven Soviet plays, 1946, p. 187-229.
Fear. Vassar experimental theatre plays.
The Experimental Theatre of Vassar College
1934
Stalingrad, Battle of, 1942-1943
Guerrillas
Agapov, Boris N
Hutchinson and Co.
1943
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
Astrakhan Oblast
Akhtubinsk
construction
Battle of Stalingrad
Ikrianinskii District
fishing
canning
collective farm
labor
natural gas
industry
youth
archive
scholarship
hospital
medicine
evacuation
letter
pioneer organization
veteran
A number of exhibits on social and economic life in the Astrakhan oblast, as well as on the participation of individuals and groups within the region in the Great Patriotic War. There is also some material on politics and administration.
Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
political institution
Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
Книжная коллекция редких изданий Аги (Rare Book Collection of Agi)
Mongol
Buriat
translation
internationalism
orthography
linguistics
expedition
Several digitized books from the rare book collection of the Aginskaya Regional Library (Zabaykalsky Krai), including publications in old Mongol script and the Buryat translations of Russian classical literary works.
Aginskaya Krai Zhamtsarano Library
Mongolian
Zabaykalsky Krai
Siberia
Aitmatov, Chingiz
Hodder and Stoughton
1972