Архив самиздата (The Samizdat Archive )
subject: samizdat
subject: Yuri Daniel
subject: Andrei Amal'rik
subject: Aleksandr Sviashch
subject: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
subject: Vladimir Albrecht
subject: Vladimir Bukovsky
description: Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
creator: "Vekhi" Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1961-1981
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: @student-istorik
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

The Blavatnik Archive
subject: Jewish
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: nationality
subject: culture
subject: war
subject: military
subject: World War II
subject: propaganda
subject: education
subject: women
subject: holiday
subject: festival
subject: political leader
subject: religion
subject: Judaism
subject: POW
subject: holocaust
subject: architecture
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Len Blavatnik
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1910-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: Yiddish
language: Ukrainian
language: Polish
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Germany
coverage: France
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Poland
coverage: Austria
coverage: Belarus
coverage: US
coverage: Czech Republic
coverage: Israel
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Europe
coverage: Asia
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: South Caucasus
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: China
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Moldova
coverage: UK
coverage: Romania
coverage: Mongolia

The Blavatnik Archive
subject: Jewish
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: nationality
subject: culture
subject: war
subject: military
subject: World War II
subject: propaganda
subject: education
subject: women
subject: holiday
subject: festival
subject: political leader
subject: religion
subject: Judaism
subject: POW
subject: holocaust
subject: architecture
subject: political repression
creator: Len Blavatnik
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
type: English-Language Primary Source

05/03/53
subject: Stalin
subject: political leader
subject: personal cult
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: 50353
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1953
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: culture
subject: propaganda
description: 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.
creator: A. P. Anashkin et al.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai
coverage: Russia

Коллекции (Collections)
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: painting
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ) (The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB))
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: culture
subject: folklore
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
creator: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: folklore
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Russian Archives Online
subject: urban history
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: economy
subject: sport
subject: culture
subject: everyday life
subject: agriculture
subject: music
subject: art
subject: healthcare
subject: infrastructure
subject: women
subject: army
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: ABAmedia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Egypt
coverage: Cuba
coverage: global

“Illumination”; “Gentleness Offended”.
creator: ABDRAKHMANOVA TURSYNKHAN
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 3 (1979): 164-65.
date: 1979
type: English-Language Primary Source

“My Inspiration”.
creator: ABDRAKHMANOVA TURSYNKHAN
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 8 (1973): 121.
date: 1973
type: English-Language Primary Source

Contemporary Soviet education: a collection of readings from Soviet journals. With an introd. by George S. Counts.
subject: Education
subject: Soviet Union
creator: Ablin, Fred, comp.
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: International Arts and Sciences Press
date: 1969
type: English-Language Primary Source

Education in the USSR: a collection of readings from Soviet journals
subject: Education
subject: Soviet Union
creator: Ablin, Fred, ed.
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: International Arts and Sciences Press
date: 1963
type: English-Language Primary Source

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.
subject: Byelorussians
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Political atrocities
subject: Persecutions
creator: Abramcyk, Mikola.
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Byelorussian Alliance in Canada
date: 1950
type: English-Language Primary Source

The dodgers.
creator: Abramov, Fedor
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Flegon Press in association with A. Blond
date: 1963
type: English-Language Primary Source

Two winters and three summers.
creator: Abramov, Fedor
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Ardis
date: 1984
type: English-Language Primary Source

The new life: a day on a collective farm.
creator: Abramov, Fedor
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Grove Press
date: 1963
type: English-Language Primary Source

One day in the “New Life”.
creator: Abramov, Fedor
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Praeger
date: 1963
type: English-Language Primary Source

The swans flew by and other stories
creator: Abramov, Fedor
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Raduga Publishers
date: 1986
type: English-Language Primary Source

“Such a host of flowers…”
creator: ABYLKASYMOVA MAIRAMKAN
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 2 (1985): 128-29.
date: 1985
type: English-Language Primary Source

“Schoolroom Desks”; “How abundant the flowers this spring!”
creator: ABYLKASYMOVA MAIRAMKAN
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 6 (1980): 16-17.
date: 1980
type: English-Language Primary Source

The final assault: memoirs of a veteran who fought in the battle of Berlin.
subject: Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia
subject: Biography
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Campaigns
subject: Eastern Front
subject: Soldiers
subject: Battle of Berlin
subject: Abyzov, V I
subject: Personal narratives, Russian
creator: Abyzov, V
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Novosti Press Agency Pub. House
date: 1985
type: English-Language Primary Source

國史館史料文物查詢系統 (Collections Online Search, Academic Historica) (Taiwan)
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: trade
subject: diplomacy
subject: law
subject: foreign policy
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: Xinjiang
subject: propaganda
subject: legal source
description: 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.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
language: English
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Japan
coverage: Xinjiang

國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: trade
subject: diplomacy
subject: law
subject: foreign policy
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: Xinjiang
subject: migration
subject: espionage
subject: propaganda
subject: White Army
subject: legal source
description: 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.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
language: English
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Japan
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: USA
coverage: UK

蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: diplomacy
subject: foreign policy
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: personal narrative
description: English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-1937
format: Digital collection
language: English
language: Chinese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: Russia

蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: diplomacy
subject: foreign policy
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
creator: Academic Historica (Taipei)
source: Access through Academic Historica
source: Access through Taipei
date: 1925-1937
type: English-Language Primary Source

Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
subject: press
subject: science
subject: local administration
subject: culture
subject: social sciences
subject: humanities
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: local history
subject: intellectual
subject: natural science
subject: Tatar
description: 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.
creator: Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazan
coverage: Russia
coverage: Tatarstan

От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: soldiers
subject: memory
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Kosmicheskie dannye. Cosmic data
creator: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation.
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Nauka
date: 1944-1987
type: English-Language Primary Source
identifier: ISSN: 0130-2566

Four lives: short stories
creator: Adamian, Nora
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
date: 195-
type: English-Language Primary Source

“The Zarshevan Doctor”; “How Her Life Began”.
creator: Adamian, Nora
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 1 (1954): 63-93.
date: 1954
type: English-Language Primary Source

“By the Blue Mountains”.
creator: Adamian, Nora
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Soviet literature 8 (1957): 67-125.
date: 1957
type: English-Language Primary Source

From Helsinki to Belgrade : the Soviet Union and the implementation of the final act of the European Conference: documents and material.
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Foreign relations
subject: 1975-1985
subject: Europe
subject: Defenses
creator: Adamishin, A. L., ed.
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Progress Publishers
date: 1977
type: English-Language Primary Source

A book of the blockade.
creator: Adamovich, Ales’
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Raduga Publishers
date: 1983
type: English-Language Primary Source

Out of the fire.
creator: Adamovich, Ales’
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Progress
date: 1980
type: English-Language Primary Source

Khatyn; The punitive squads: the joy of the knife; or, The hyperboreans and how they live.
creator: Adamovich, Ales’
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Progress Publishers
date: 1988
type: English-Language Primary Source

Out of the fire
creator: Adamovich, Alesʹ, 1927-1994
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Progress
date: 1980
type: English-Language Primary Source

The forgotten army: the experiences of Private Sam: Vladivostok, Siberia, 1918- 1919
subject: Adams, Sam N. United States
subject: Army
subject: Biography
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Personal narratives, American
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Soldiers
subject: History
subject: Allied intervention, 1918- 1920.
creator: Adams, Sam N
source: Check access on WorldCat
publisher: S.N.
date: 1977
type: English-Language Primary Source

From peace front to people’s war. [2d enl. ed.]
subject: Communism
subject: History
subject: Sources
subject: Soviet Union
subject: 1917-
creator: Adhikari, Gangadhar M. ed.
source: Check access on WorldCat
publisher: People’s Pub. House
date: 1944
type: English-Language Primary Source

75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)

Distant Point, a play.
creator: Afinogenov, A
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Pushkin press
date: 1941
type: English-Language Primary Source

On the eve; a play in three acts and five scenes.
creator: Afinogenov, A (Aleksandr).
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: In Seven Soviet plays, 1946, p. 187-229.
type: English-Language Primary Source

Fear. Vassar experimental theatre plays.
creator: Afinogenov, A (Aleksandr).
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: The Experimental Theatre of Vassar College
date: 1934
type: English-Language Primary Source

After the battle: Stalingrad sketches.
subject: Stalingrad, Battle of, 1942-1943
subject: Guerrillas
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Personal narratives, Russian
subject: Biography
creator: Agapov, Boris N
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Hutchinson and Co.
date: 1943
type: English-Language Primary Source

Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
subject: Astrakhan Oblast
subject: Akhtubinsk
subject: urban history
subject: construction
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Battle of Stalingrad
subject: culture
subject: Ikrianinskii District
subject: fishing
subject: canning
subject: agriculture
subject: collective farm
subject: economy
subject: labor
subject: natural gas
subject: industry
subject: youth
subject: archive
subject: scholarship
subject: hospital
subject: healthcare
subject: medicine
subject: women
subject: evacuation
subject: letter
subject: pioneer organization
subject: veteran
description: 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.
creator: Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2000
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Astrakhan Oblast
coverage: Russia

Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
subject: industry
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: education
subject: women
subject: press
subject: pioneer organization
subject: religion
subject: law
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
subject: personal narrative
subject: legal source
description: Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
creator: Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Astrakhan Oblast
coverage: Russia

Книжная коллекция редких изданий Аги (Rare Book Collection of Agi)
subject: nationalities
subject: Mongol
subject: Buriat
subject: literature
subject: translation
subject: art
subject: internationalism
subject: orthography
subject: folklore
subject: linguistics
subject: expedition
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Aginskaya Krai Zhamtsarano Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1913-1973
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Mongolian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Zabaykalsky Krai
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Russia

The white steamship.
creator: Aitmatov, Chingiz
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
date: 1972
type: English-Language Primary Source

The time to speak out.
creator: Aitmatov, Chingiz
source: Access through HOLLIS
publisher: Progress Publishers
date: 1988
type: English-Language Primary Source