Журналы 1920-х гг. (Magazines of the 1920s)
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: press
subject: printing
subject: art
subject: propaganda
subject: literature & arts
description: A website with numerous full-text thick journals from the 1920s. It is part of a website on 20th-century Russian (primarily Soviet) literature supported by the Soros Fund.
creator: Aleksandr Galushin
creator: Konstantin Polivanov
creator: Lev Turchinskii
creator: Andrei Bogachev
creator: Olga Kaziutina
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1930
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Документы РККА (Documents RKKA)
subject: Red Army
subject: military
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: law
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: legal source
description: Site with numerous documents (including directives, soldiers' personal documents, instructions, etc.) for Red Army soldiers, many of them from 1917-1945. The site is run by a group of colleagues led by Mikhailovskaia Artillery Military Academy scholar V. M. Mil'bakh.
creator: Aleksandr Kiian et al.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1946
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека (репозиторий) ТГУ (Digital Library (Repository) of Tomsk State University)
subject: science
subject: history
subject: education
subject: culture
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: natural science
description: Digital library of the Tomsk State University, providing open access to digitized university publications, archival documents, and other types of materials.
creator: Tomsk State University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Tomsk Oblast
coverage: Siberia

Архивная служба Воронежской области (Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast)
subject: Voronezh Oblast
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: German occupation
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: White Army
subject: Ivan Vrachev
subject: Voronezh
subject: military
subject: state
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: writing
subject: literature
subject: poetry
subject: theater
subject: Administration of Culture
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: engineering
subject: Russian Artists' Union
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: doctor
subject: agriculture
subject: economics
subject: scholarship
subject: academics
subject: agronomy
subject: plays
subject: space program
subject: astronautics
subject: geography
subject: local study
subject: education
subject: puppet theater
subject: youth
subject: periodicals
subject: komsomol
subject: children
subject: hospital
subject: social services
subject: N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University
subject: archive
subject: civil society
subject: Russian Children's Fond
subject: Soviet World Fond
subject: Russian World Fond
subject: students
subject: construction
subject: construction brigade
subject: railroad
subject: South-Western Railroad
subject: hero of socialist labor
subject: Baikalo-Amur Railroad
subject: women
subject: Kseniia Zorikina
subject: memory
subject: Danila Kutsygin
subject: reconstruction
subject: home front
subject: propaganda
subject: concentration camp
subject: prisoners
subject: urban history
subject: defence
subject: pioneer organization
subject: transportation
subject: virgin lands campaign
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: literature & arts
description: Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source

Электронный архив Удмуртии (Electronic Archive of Udmurtia)
subject: Udmurtia
subject: nationalities
description: Electronic archive of Udmurtiia on the site of the Archives of Udmurtiia. It contains documents from Udmurt history in the Soviet period, focusing on documents about municipal and local governance.
creator: Archive of Udmurtia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: Udmurt
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Udmurtia

Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War and USSR 1917-1991
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: general
subject: bibliography
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Webpage with resources for the study of Soviet history on the site of the Brigham University Harold B. Lee Library. It contains a list of links to various open access resources with documents, photographs, and audio recordings in both Russian and English.
creator: Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

David Rumsey Map Collection
subject: cartography
subject: geography
subject: propaganda
description: A digital map preservation project which presents numerous digitized high-resolution maps of the USSR.
creator: Cartography Associates
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: English
language: Russian
language: German
language: Armenian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Germany
coverage: Armenia

Freedom of Information Act Reading Room
subject: Cold War
subject: international relations
subject: space race
subject: Sputnik
subject: CIA
subject: espionage
subject: intelligence
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
description: Open-access archive of the CIA, containing a large number of declassified CIA reports, leaked Soviet documents, oral history, etc.
creator: Central Intelligence Agency
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA
coverage: Germany
coverage: Europe
coverage: China
coverage: global
coverage: Eastern Europe

Архив открытого доступа Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета (Research Repository of Saint Petersburg State University)
subject: law
subject: science
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: justice
subject: legislation
subject: trade
subject: labor law
subject: finance
subject: crime
subject: economy
subject: commercial law
subject: financial law
subject: natural science
subject: legal source
description: Digital collection and institutional research repository that captures, preserves, and disseminates the intellectual property created within the Saint Petersburg State University community. It provides free access to the digital copies of more than six thousand Soviet-era publications, including academic and non-academic periodicals, books, article collections, etc.
creator: Saint-Petersburg State University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека "Венёвский уезд" (Electronic Library "Venevskii uezd")
subject: Venev
subject: urban history
subject: local history
subject: local study
subject: urban planning
subject: everyday life
subject: personal narrative
description: A website on the Venev Uezd in Tula Oblast containing local historical sources, including books and newspapers.
creator: Denis Makhel'
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tula Oblast
coverage: Russia

100(0) ключевых документов по Российской и Советской истории (1917-1991) (100(0) Key Documents on Russian and Soviet History (1917-1991) )
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: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
creator: Dr. Helmut Altrichter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Прожито. Личные истории в электронном корпусе дневников (Prozhito. Personal Histories in the Electronic Corpus of Diaries)
subject: everyday life
subject: general
subject: personal narrative
description: A site with a huge number of diaries and memoirs from the Soviet period from a variety of people, including masses of ordinary citizens, on daily economic, social, cultural, and political life.
creator: European University (Saint Petersburg)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1880-2000
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
language: Belarusian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Europeana
subject: culture
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: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A site with a variety of documents and objects relating to Europe and its history and culture. The Russian collections contain a sporadic group of materials on Soviet daily life and culture.
creator: Europeana Foundation
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Azerbaijan

Ленин (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Lenin)
subject: political leader
subject: Lenin
description: A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Vladimir Lenin from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1870-1924
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Хрущев (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Khrushchev)
subject: political leader
subject: Khrushchev
description: A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Nikita Khrushchev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1894-1971
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Брежнев (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Brezhnev)
subject: Leonid Brezhnev
subject: political leader
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
description: A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Leonid Brezhnev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1906-1982
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Андропов (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Andropov)
subject: Yuri Andropov
subject: political leader
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
description: A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Yuri Andropov from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-1984
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Документы Советской эпохи (Documents of the Soviet Era)
subject: Party organization
subject: political institution
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Stalin
subject: political leader
subject: Comintern
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: political repression
subject: Politburo
description: A site created by the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides open access to a large number of Soviet archival documents from state and party organs, socio-political organizations, and personal fonds. It also contains two document collections decicated to the Great Patriotic War and the Russian Revolution.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

100 раритетов российской государственности (100 Rarities of Russian Statehood)
subject: statehood
subject: political institution
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: legal source
description: An exhibit with 100 rare and famous documents on Russian statehood, which includes three categories on the Soviet period.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Электронный научный архив УрФУ (Digital Scientific Archive of the Ural Federal University)
subject: press
subject: education
subject: science
subject: humanities
subject: history
subject: social sciences
subject: archaeology
subject: literature
subject: philology
subject: linguistics
subject: language
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc. The archive also has digital copies of Soviet-era local newspapers and journals, such as "Stalinets" and "Za industrial'nye kadry".
creator: Ural Federal University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ural

FBI Records: The Vault
subject: intelligence
subject: espionage
subject: Operation SOLO
subject: Cold War
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive of more than 6700 digital copies of FBI documents. One can find records of the Operation SOLO and investigations of Soviet spies in this archive.
creator: FBI
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe

Либрариум (Librarium )
subject: emigration
subject: culture
subject: emigre
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: theater
subject: literature & arts
description: Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
creator: Fedor Soumkine
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1990
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe
coverage: global

Мемуары, дневники, автобиографии (Twirpx) (Memoirs, Diaries, and Autobiographies (Twirpx))
subject: everyday life
subject: memoir
subject: diary
subject: veteran
subject: crime
subject: personal narrative
subject: celebrity
description: A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
creator: Forum by Russian and former Soviet country academic school community
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1880-2000
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: global

Коллекции исторических документов - Архива Национальной Безопасности (Collections of Historical Documents - Russian Programs of the National Security Archive)
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Perestroika
subject: Anatolii Chernyaev
subject: Gorbachev
subject: Mikoyan
subject: Cold War
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Soviet-American relations
subject: dissident
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Carribean Crisis
subject: Aleksandr Yakovlev
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Revolutions of 1989
subject: KGB
subject: security service
subject: secret police
subject: Brezhnev
subject: personal narrative
description: Russian-language archival document collections of the National Security Archive, containing extensive archival documents on different topics.
creator: National Security Archive, George Washington University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Russia
coverage: Afghanistan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Poland

National Security Archive Virtual Reading Room
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: foreign relations
subject: diplomacy
subject: foreign policy
subject: intelligence
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: The virtual reading room of the National Security Archive (George Washington University), containing documents about American-Soviet relations, the Cold War, and other Soviet events relevant to U.S. national security.
creator: George Washington University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-2022
format: Digital archive
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe
coverage: USA

РИСТАТ (RISTAT)
subject: statistics
subject: census
subject: economy
subject: economics
subject: population
subject: labor
subject: agriculture
description: A Dutch-Russian joint project containing Russian historical statistics from the imperial and Soviet periods.
creator: Gijs Kessler (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
creator: Andrei Markevich (New Economic School, Moscow)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Исторические источники по истории России ХХ в. на Русском языке в интернете (Historical Sources on the History fo Russia in the XX Century in Russian online)
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: general
subject: personal narrative
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A page with primary documents on 20th century Russia on the site of the History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, including numerous major official documents.
creator: History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1850-2000
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Воспоминания о Ленине (Memories about Lenin )
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: memory
subject: political leader
subject: personal narrative
subject: Lenin
description: Digitized memoirs about Lenin.
creator: leninism.su
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1924
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Законодательство СССР (Legislation of the USSR)
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: legal source
description: Online database of laws of the USSR from 1917 till 1991.
creator: World and Market Economy: Articles and Books
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1992
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Тогда (Togda)
subject: Culture
subject: art and architecture
subject: film
subject: avant-garde
subject: Great Terror
subject: everyday life
subject: book
subject: children
description: Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
creator: Il'ia Starkov
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1960
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Старые газеты (Old Newspapers)
subject: periodicals
subject: everyday life
subject: political institution
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: general
subject: propaganda
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Демоскоп Weekly: Переписи населения Российской Империи, СССР, 15 новых независимых государств (Demoscop Weekly: Censuses of the Russian Empire, the USSR, 15 New Independent States)
subject: demographics
subject: population
subject: science
subject: nationalities
subject: gender
description: Demographic data of the former Soviet states as well as other world countries provided by the Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economy. Here you can find different demographic indicators for 15 former Soviet states in different years and detailed Soviet census data.
creator: Institute of Demography of the National Research Institute "Higher School of Economics"
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: global

Россия и марксизм в ХХ веке (Russia and Marxism in the XX Century)
subject: Leon Trotsky
subject: Communism
subject: Bolshevism
subject: Fourth International
subject: Lev Kamenev
subject: Grigory Zinoviev
subject: opposition
subject: personal narrative
subject: Politburo
subject: Stalin
subject: Lenin
description: 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 Army, published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party; and the full text of an anonymous manuscript detailing the experiences of a young member of the political opposition during the mid-1920s that was discovered in the Hoover Archives.
creator: Iskra-Research
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1940
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Ленин: Революционер, мыслитель, человек (Lenin: Revolutionary, thinker, human being)
subject: Lenin
subject: political leader
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: memory
subject: personal cult
subject: Leninism
subject: ideology
subject: personal narrative
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: leninism.su
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
subject: international relations
subject: Cold War
subject: foreign policy
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: military
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
creator: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: US
coverage: global
coverage: China

Научная педагогическая электронная библиотека - Библиотека имени К. Д. Ушинского (Scientific Pedagogical Electronic Library - K.D. Ushinskii Library)
subject: education
subject: pedagogy
subject: Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
subject: psychology
subject: educational institutions
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
creator: K. D. Ushinskii Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
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

Marxist Internet Archive
subject: Marxism
subject: Communism
subject: ideology
subject: collected works
subject: culture
subject: Revolution
subject: propaganda
subject: terror
subject: economics
subject: international relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: music
subject: art
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: everyday life
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
creator: Marxists Internet Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: English
language: Portuguese
language: German
language: Arabic
language: Dutch
language: French
language: Swedish
language: Spanish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: global
coverage: USSR
coverage: China
coverage: Europe

Книги и монографии Института востоковедения РАН (Books and Monographs of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)
subject: Oriental Studies
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
subject: religion
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: language
subject: linguistics
subject: national culture
subject: history
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: anthropology
subject: ethnography
subject: economy
subject: philology
subject: turkology
subject: Muslim
subject: Islam
description: Full catalog of books and monographs published by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
creator: Russian Academy of Sciences
creator: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1923-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: China
coverage: Afghanistan
coverage: Far East
coverage: Africa
coverage: Pakistan
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Turkey
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Caucasus
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Iran
coverage: Japan
coverage: Korea
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Middle East
coverage: Southeast Asia

Публикации Института восточных рукописей РАН (Publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy os Sciences)
subject: Oriental Studies
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
subject: religion
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: language
subject: linguistics
subject: national culture
subject: history
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: anthropology
subject: ethnography
subject: philology
subject: turkology
subject: Muslim
subject: Islam
description: 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.
creator: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts 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: China
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Far East
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: Tatarstan
coverage: Japan
coverage: Korea

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/459
title: Эволюция трудовых отношений в российской промышленности: от дореволюционной индустриализации к советской (The Evolution of Labor Relations in Russian Industry: From Pre-Revolutionary to Soviet Industrialization)
subject: labor
subject: industrialization
subject: worker
subject: economy
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: labor law
subject: legal source
description: Multifunctional information system designed to provide information resources for research on a wide range of issues of the evolution of labor relations in Russia, including labor legislation, wages, insurance and social security of workers, labor conflicts, etc. Here you can find Soviet-era statistical data, legal documents, and publications on the subject.
creator: Moscow State University Department of Historical Informatics
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Виртуальный музей современной истории России (Virtual Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia)
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: general
subject: numismatics
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Digital exhibits of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
creator: Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1880-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

تۈركىستانىي كۇتۇپخانىسى (Library of Turkistani)
subject: Muslim
subject: nationalities
subject: Uyghur
subject: national autonomy
subject: Islam
subject: religion
subject: national culture
subject: literature
subject: history
subject: language
subject: Mongol
subject: communism
subject: geography
subject: literature & arts
description: A huge digital library dedicated to Turkic-related topics. The website has four versions in Arabic, Turkish, English, and Uyghur, and each version presents books and periodicals in its respective language. One can find plentiful interesting publications on Muslims and Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus in different languages and published in various countries. The digital library also has a lot of materials in German, French, and Hungarian.
creator: Library of Turkistani
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: English
language: Uyghur
language: Turkish
language: Arabic
language: French
language: German
language: Hungarian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: China
coverage: Turkey
coverage: Xinjiang
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Caucasus

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History: An Online Archive of Primary Sources
subject: Communist Party
subject: countryside
subject: economics
subject: film
subject: fine arts
subject: gender
subject: international relations
subject: law and society
subject: literature
subject: military
subject: nationalities
subject: opposition
subject: propaganda
subject: religion
subject: science
subject: youth
subject: worker
subject: cities
subject: nature
subject: literature & arts
description: 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 seventies.
creator: National Endowment for the Humanities
creator: Matrix
creator: Macalester College
creator: Michigan State University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Национальная электронная библиотека Республики Коми (National Electronic Library of the Republic of Komi)
subject: Komi Republic
subject: culture
subject: nationalities
creator: National Library of the Republic of Komi
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Komi Republic

Книжная палата (Book Chamber)
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: literature
subject: nationalities
subject: language
subject: law
subject: military
subject: art
subject: folklore
subject: religion
subject: philosophy
subject: Udmurtia
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital book collection of the National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic.
creator: National Library of the Udmurt Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Udmurt
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Udmurt Republic

VENONA Documents
subject: Venona program
subject: espionage
subject: Communism
subject: Red Scare
subject: space race
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: intelligence
subject: KGB
subject: diplomacy
subject: Cold War
description: Declassified National Security Agency (U.S.A.) documents of the Venona program.
creator: National Security Agency (U.S.A.)
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-1951
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: US
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека - Омская государственная научная библиотека имени А. С. Пушкина (Digital Library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library)
subject: nationalities
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: state
subject: administration
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: writing
subject: space race
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: propaganda
subject: ideology
subject: local study
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library.
creator: Omsk Oblast State Pushkin Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Omsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Maps
subject: cartography
subject: map
description: Digital map collections and geographical databases on Russia, East and Southeast Europe
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
language: French
language: German
language: Slovenian
language: Czech
language: Hungarian
language: Latvian
language: Ukrainian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Eastern Europe

Images, Photos, and Videos
subject: Europe
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: international relations
subject: global
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: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Imperial Russia
coverage: USSR