Выставки Государственного архив административных органов Свердловской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast)
subject: religion
subject: state
subject: society
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: partisan
subject: guerilla warfare
subject: migration
subject: urban history
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Harbin
subject: social organization
subject: education
subject: archive
subject: architecture
subject: personal narrative
subject: women
description: A lot of well-organized and interesting online exhibitions on various topics, ranging from local history to foreign relations, such as Russians in Harbin. Most exhibitions consist of abundant interesting documents.
creator: State Archive of Administrative Organs of Sverdlovsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Sverdlovsk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Germany
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: China
coverage: Harbin
coverage: USSR

Донские Архивы - Виртуальный архив Ростовской области (Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast)
subject: industrialization
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: local administration
subject: local autonomy
subject: political institution
subject: coal
subject: festival
subject: children
subject: pioneer organization
subject: Nazi
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Revolution
subject: education
subject: ecology
subject: environment
subject: Cossack
subject: archive
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: agriculture
subject: political leader
subject: public health
subject: everyday life
subject: infrastructure
subject: theater
subject: oil
subject: postal service
subject: poetry
subject: Fascism
subject: literature & arts
description: A very helpful and user-friendly digital archive providing access to extensive archival materials from Rostov Oblast. In the "Виртуальный читальный зал" section, users can access finding aids for archival documents as well as some original documents. In the "Вирзуальная библиотека" section, users can read document collections published by Rostov archives, as well as some referential materials online. The digital portal also has some online exhibitions and thematic document selections under the "Интернет-проекты" section.
creator: Don Archives - Digital Archive of Rostov Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Rostov Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Caucasus

Электронный читальный зал Пермского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Digital Reading Room of the Perm State Archive of Socio-political History)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: guerilla warfare
subject: festival
subject: commemoration
subject: religion
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: science
subject: education
subject: printing
subject: media
subject: everyday life
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: personal narrative
description: A very helpful digital portal that includes various digital projects, databases, and online exhibitions based on archival materials from the Perm region. Both thematic and chronological coverages of the projects in the digital reading room are quite extensive.
creator: Perm State Archive of Socio-political History
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Perm
coverage: Russia
coverage: Molotovskaya Oblast
coverage: USSR

Выставки Государственного архива Пермского края (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Perm Krai)
subject: religion
subject: education
subject: family
subject: everyday life
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: evacuation
subject: urban history
subject: Armenian
subject: Revolution
subject: Old Believer
subject: railroad
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: Many well-organized, user-friendly online exhibitions and digital projects based on archival documents from the State Archive of Perm Krai, covering topics such as the 1917 Revolution, the Great Patriotic War, urban development, railway construction, local Old Believers, as well as less known themes such as Armenians in Perm Krai. These projects and exhibitions provide access to a lot of interesting documents.
creator: State Archive of Perm Krai
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Perm
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ural
coverage: Mari El
coverage: Mordovia
coverage: Sverdlovsk
coverage: Penza
coverage: Udmurt Republic
coverage: Ulyanovsk
coverage: Prikamye

Электронные издания Государственного архива современной истории Чувашской Республики (Digital Publications of the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic)
subject: Timurite movement
subject: urban history
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: music
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: everyday life
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Chuvash national movement
subject: Perestroika
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital projects and online exhibits of archival documents from the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic. Some projects are based on abundant archival documents and old photographs.
creator: State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Chuvashia
coverage: Russia

Электронный читальный зал «Национальный архив» Республики Хакасия (Digital Reading Room "National Archive" of the Republic of Khakassia)
subject: water management
subject: military
subject: state authorities and institutions
subject: housing
subject: health
subject: art
subject: economy
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: science
subject: everyday life
subject: justice
subject: religion
subject: finance
subject: economic planning
subject: theater
subject: literature
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: Khakas
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Khakassia
coverage: Russia

Виртуальные выставки Национального архива Республики Карелия (Online exhibitions of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia)
subject: Revolution
subject: religion
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: urban history
subject: diplomacy
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: medicine
subject: Orthodox Church
subject: sport
subject: literature & arts
description: Online exhibitions of archival documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, mainly covering local history.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1800-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Neubrandenburg
coverage: Russia
coverage: Sweden
coverage: Peterozavodsk

Интернет-проекты Российского государственного архива фонодокументов (Online Projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments)
subject: art
subject: film
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Russian Arctic
subject: poetry
subject: women
subject: party and state leaders
subject: Antarctic
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Red Army
subject: October Revolution
subject: aerospace
subject: literature & arts
description: Online projects of the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments covering various topics, such as the October Revolution, the Russian Russian Civil War, two World Wars, the Russian Arctic and Antarctic, leaders' speeches, the Soviet space program, and Soviet cinema.
creator: Russian State Archive of Phono Documents
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1992
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Arctic
coverage: Stalingrad
coverage: Antarctic

Электронная библиотека - Историческое и культурное наследие Еврейской автономной области (Digital Library - Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
subject: Jewish
subject: Birobidzhan
subject: local administration
subject: nationalities
subject: urban history
subject: local study
subject: political institution
subject: history
subject: nature
subject: ecology
subject: art
subject: education
subject: science
subject: national culture
subject: sport
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library that contains digital books, periodicals, photographs, videos, and audio materials on the history, people, and culture of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the city of Birobidzhan.
creator: Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1934-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Yiddish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Far East

Akhiva Digitală a Republicii Sovietice Socialiste Moldoveneşti (Digital Archive of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova)
subject: culture
subject: press
subject: youth
subject: agriculture
subject: atheism
subject: art
subject: cinema
subject: children
subject: demographics
subject: economy
subject: ecology
subject: education
subject: women
subject: folklore
subject: history
subject: law
subject: literature
subject: poetry
subject: music
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of various types of published materials from the Moldova SSR.
creator: Vitalie Sprinceana
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1924-1991
format: Digital project
language: Romanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Moldova

Периодические издания и краеведческие материалы Ленинградской области (Periodical Publications and Local Study Materials of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: local study
subject: local administration
subject: local history
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: political institution
subject: culture
subject: Party organization
description: Free access publications include "Leninskoe znamia", "Novyi pit", "Znamia truda", and regional versions of "Pravda".
creator: Leningrad Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1944-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War I
subject: diplomacy
subject: Cold War
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: Digital archive containing 20th-Century US legal documents on American diplomacy. You can find many documents on Soviet-US relations here.
creator: Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: US

Soviet Archives Collected by Vladimir Bukovsky
subject: secret police
subject: NKVD
subject: KGB
subject: Vladimir Bukovsky
subject: Communist Party
subject: terror
subject: foreign policy
subject: foreign relations
subject: political repression
subject: Comintern
subject: ideology
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: dissident
description: Soviet archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky on various domestic political and foreign policy issues.
creator: Vladimir Bukovsky
creator: Julia Zaks
creator: Leonid Chernikhov
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Asia
coverage: US
coverage: Africa
coverage: Europa
coverage: Poland
coverage: Afghanistan

Журналы СССР (Soviet Magazines)
subject: culture
subject: everyday life
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: fashion
subject: sport
subject: economy
subject: children
subject: youth
subject: leisure
subject: art
subject: cinema
subject: literature
subject: architecture
subject: aviation
subject: astronautics
subject: radio
subject: education
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: family
subject: propaganda
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of major Soviet journals.
creator: Viktor Yudichev@narod.ru
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Исторические источники. Хронос (Historical Sources. Khronos)
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: late Soviet period
subject: general
subject: foreign policy
subject: foreign relations
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
creator: Viacheslav Rumiantsev
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-2000
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Документы ХХ века (Documents of the XX Century)
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: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: personal narrative
subject: New Economic Policy
description: A private digital collection of extensive imperial Russian and Soviet documents on various topics.
creator: Viacheslav Rumiantsev
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1890-2015
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Austria
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Armenia
coverage: UK
coverage: Afghanistan
coverage: Africa
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Germany
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Israel
coverage: India
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: China
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Latvia
coverage: LIthuania
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Poland
coverage: Romania
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Czechoslovakia
coverage: Yugoslavia
coverage: Japan

Мир Петербурга: Портал Центра петербурговедения библиотеки им. В. В. Маяковского (The World of Petersburg: The Portal of the V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies)
subject: St. Petersburg
subject: culture
subject: society
subject: history
subject: general
description: This website contains a large amount of material about the history of St. Petersburg. Particularly useful are the "knigi o peterburge" and the "online-biblioteka" tabs. In the online library, the "kollektsii" and "Peterburg v gazetnykh illiustratsiiakh" are particularly interesting.
creator: V. V. Mayakovaky Center of Petersburg Studies
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Документы Организации Объединенных Наций (Documents of the United Nations)
subject: international relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Cold War
subject: arms race
subject: disarmament
subject: human rights
subject: diplomacy
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
subject: UN
description: Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
creator: The United Nations
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-2022
format: Digital archive
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: English
language: Chinese
language: Arabic
language: French
language: Spanish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: global

Электронная библиотека Санкт-Петербургской государственной театральной библиотеки (Electronic Library of the St. Petersburg State Theater Library)
subject: culture
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: dramaturgy
subject: literature
subject: literature & arts
description: A collection of documents and materials on the performing arts: archival documents and letters from theater workers, dramatic works, art periodicals, books, original sketches of theater artists, etc.
creator: St. Petersburg State Theater Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Собрание рукописей и старопечатных книг (Manuscripts and Out-of-print Books Collection)
subject: religion
subject: Orthodox church
subject: society
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: religious policy
description: A huge digital collection of church manuscripts and old books from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
creator: The Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library
creator: Central State Archive of Moscow
creator: Division of the State Archive of Yaroslav Oblast in Rybinsk
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1923
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

База данных документов архива Егора Гайдара (Database of Documents of the Iegor Gaidar Archive)
subject: collectivization
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: foreign policy
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: foreign relations
subject: Perestroika
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: oil
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Digitized documents from the archive of Yegor Gaidar, including plentiful interesting documents on the Soviet economy, foreign relations, and other questions, especially on the late Soviet period.
creator: The Iegor Gaidar Fond
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Afghanistan

Отечественная периодика в фонде президентской библиотеки (Domestic Periodicals in the Fonds of the Presidential Library)
subject: press
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: politics
subject: political institution
subject: local administration
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: agriculture
subject: Academy of Sciences
subject: justice
subject: Red Army
subject: literature
subject: leisure
subject: children
subject: pioneer organization
subject: Komsomol
subject: everyday life
subject: local study
subject: geography
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: railroad
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Collection of digital editions of imperial Russian and Soviet periodicals.
creator: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Все коллекции Президентской библиотеки (All the Collections of the Presidential Library of Russia)
subject: Iulian Semienov
subject: journalism
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: intervention
subject: law
subject: Nicholas II
subject: Red terror
subject: komsomol
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: postwar reconstruction
subject: art
subject: sculpture
subject: Albert Charkin
subject: everyday life
subject: state
subject: society
subject: gosudarstvennost'
subject: theater
subject: economics
subject: economic planning
subject: economic regulation
subject: state Hermitage
subject: museum
subject: historical preservation
subject: Daniil Granin
subject: Far East
subject: economy
subject: industry
subject: Kremlin
subject: urban history
subject: architecture
subject: voting
subject: elections
subject: space program
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: Konstantin Tsiolkovskii
subject: film
subject: youth
subject: Mikhail Anikushin
subject: Maxim Gorky
subject: sport
subject: Arctic
subject: space race
subject: Cold War
subject: memory
subject: anarchism
subject: emigre
subject: Pitirim Sorokin
subject: sociology
subject: education
subject: World War I
subject: nationalities
subject: geography
subject: international relations
subject: trade
subject: foreign policy
subject: travel
subject: Avant-Garde
subject: map
subject: Soviet-Japanese relations
subject: general
subject: Vladimir Mayakovsky
subject: Peter Kropotkin
subject: constitution
subject: Olympic Games
subject: parks and gardens
subject: Russian-Japanese War
subject: Lenin
subject: volunteer
subject: War Communism
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital collections of extensive published and unpublished materials at the Presidential Library of Russia.
creator: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
source: Link to the Resource

База данных документов архива Александра Н. Яковлева (Database of Documents of the Alexander N. Iakovlev Archive)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: religion
subject: art
subject: industrialization
subject: political institution
subject: culture
subject: foreign policy
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: political repression
subject: theater
subject: economic policy
subject: Gulag
subject: literature & arts
description: Digitized archival documents from the archive of Alexander Yakovlev, covering various topics in Soviet history.
creator: The Alexander N. Yakovlev Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-2000
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Работы А. Д. Сахарова (The Works of A. D. Sakharov)
subject: Andrei Sakharov
subject: dissident
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: human rights
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital texts of Andrei Sakharov's publications, public speeches, interview transcriptions, and memoirs.
creator: The A. D. Sakharov Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1958-1989
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы (Memoirs about the Gulag and their Authors)
subject: Gulag
subject: crime
subject: political police
subject: labor camp
subject: prisoners
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
description: Memoirs of Gulag prisoners or their descendants.
creator: The A. D. Sakharov Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1923-1967
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека Белинки (Electronic Library "Belinki")
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: science
subject: agriculture
subject: economy
subject: forestry
subject: social sciences
subject: humanities
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: folklore
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: local study
subject: local administration
subject: local history
subject: healthcare
subject: natural science
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library with digitized materials from libraries in the Ural region.
creator: Sverdlovsk Oblast Belinsky Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ural
coverage: Sverdlovsk Oblast

近代史數位資料庫 (Modern History Database)
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: women
subject: everyday life
subject: Korean War
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: trade
subject: foreign relations
subject: World War Ⅱ
description: Integrated database of digital resources from the archive and library of the Institute of Modern History of Taiwan. In the database you can find thousands of Chinese accounts on Soviet topics in this database, especially from the pre-1949 period.
creator: Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
language: Chinese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: North Korea
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: Far East
coverage: Japan

Персональная биобиблиография (Bio-bibliography of Important Personages)
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: academics
subject: education
subject: Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
subject: statesmen
subject: culture
subject: bibliography
subject: intellectual
description: A list of prominent scholars, cultural figures, and statesmen of Novosibirsk and of Russia in general. Though some of the pages include partial or full-text documents ("polnotekstovyie dokumenty), the primary use of this site is as a bibliographic resource. It gives a very clear and detailed idea of the works both by and about these figures which are available online and elsewhere.
creator: State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
format: Bibliography
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Газеты (Newspapers)
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: Online newspaper collections published by the State Archival Service of Novosibirsk Oblast.
creator: State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1928
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast

Сборники документов и материалов государственного архива Томской области (Document and Material Collections of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast)
subject: Tomsk
subject: World War I
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: home front
subject: medics
subject: deportation
subject: Purges
subject: Nazino Tragedy
subject: Siberia
subject: political institution
subject: personal narrative
subject: veteran
description: A number of digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.
creator: State Archive of Tomsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tomsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Публикации онлайн. Государственный архив Российской Федерации. (Online Publications of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
subject: Pavlo Skoropadsky
subject: Gulag
subject: Purges
subject: Soviet Occupation
subject: religion
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: East Germany
subject: Anton Denikin
subject: economy
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Orthodox Church
subject: Great Terror
subject: Alexander Kolchak
description: Online publications, including document collections, digital projects, and thematic collections, of the Russian State Archive.
creator: State Archive of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1950
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine

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

Публикации онлайн - сборники документов ГАРФ (Online Publications - Document Collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
subject: Gulag
subject: rebellion
subject: Russian Orthodox Church
subject: Great Terror
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Germany
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: political repression
subject: purge
description: Downloadable document collections of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The collection contains 20 publications covering several major topics in Soviet history, including the Great Terror, World War Ⅱ, the Russian Orthodox Church under Soviet power, etc.
creator: State Archive of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1970
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia

Фонды государственного архива Российской федерации (The Fonds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation)
subject: Nicholas II
subject: bibliography
subject: Alexander Kerensky
subject: Provisional Government
subject: February Revolution
subject: culture
subject: dance
subject: Anna Pavlova
subject: Cossacks
subject: Revolution
subject: literature
subject: Ilia Erenburg
subject: Dmitrii Shostakovitch
subject: music
subject: Duma
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Battle of Stalingrad
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: July Crisis
subject: law
subject: citizenship
subject: constitution
subject: state
subject: military
subject: propaganda
subject: urban culture
subject: World War I
subject: Vršič Pass
subject: celebration
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Online finding aids and digital archive of the Russian State Archive.
creator: State Archive of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1881-1999
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Russia

Электронный каталог Российской государственной библиотеки (Electronic Catalog of the Russian State Library)
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: science
subject: history
subject: archaeology
subject: chemistry
subject: physics
subject: mathematics
subject: humanities
subject: literature
subject: technology
subject: health
subject: economics
subject: religion
subject: social sciences
subject: agriculture
subject: biology
subject: linguistics
subject: natural science
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: general
subject: literature & arts
description: Collection of digital open-access published materials from between 1917 and 1991 in the Russian State Library. In the link, the filter "otkrytii dostup" is already selected; if it is not, one should select it in order to view publicly available books.
creator: Russian State Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

香港舊報紙 (Old Hong Kong Newspapers)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Winter War
subject: trade
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
description: 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, there are both Chinese-language and English-language newspapers in this database.
creator: Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1853-1991
format: Digital library
language: Chinese
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Hong Kong
coverage: China
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Japan

Виртуальные выставки Российского государственного архива социально-политической истории (Virtual Exhibits of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Brusilov Offensive
subject: World War I
subject: military
subject: Russian Patriarchate
subject: religion
subject: education
subject: Campaign against illiteracy
subject: labor school
subject: professional education
subject: Revolution
subject: archive
subject: scholarship
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Leon Trotsky
subject: White Army
subject: Red Army
subject: Comintern
subject: international relations
subject: Communism
subject: Komsomol
subject: youth
subject: Terror
subject: Soviet-Finnish relations
subject: humanities
subject: Spanish Russian Civil War
subject: interbrigades
subject: Vietnam War
subject: Soviet-Vietnamese relations
subject: culture
subject: Cossack
subject: Khrushchev
subject: partisan
subject: pioneer organization
subject: P.O.W.
subject: purge
subject: Stalin
subject: Lenin
description: Virtual exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1870-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Europe
coverage: Asia

Hungarian Digital Archives
subject: Soviet bloc
subject: foreign relations
subject: Party organization
subject: Hungarian-Soviet relations
description: 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.
creator: National Archives of Hungary
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1989
format: Digital archive
language: Hungarian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: USSR

Военная экономика СССР--фундамент Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 г. (Wartime Economy of the USSR: The Foundation of the Victory of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: evacuation
subject: aviation
subject: finance
subject: military supplies
subject: everyday life
subject: lend-lease
subject: taxation
subject: revenue
subject: economy
description: Document collection on Soviet economy during the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Russian State Archive of Economy
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: US

Экономика Революции, 1917-1920 гг. (The Economy of the Revolution, 1917-1920)
subject: economy
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: finance
subject: industry
subject: agriculture
subject: trade
subject: infrastructure
subject: railroad
description: Document exhibition dedicated to the economic development during the Russian Revolution and early years of the Soviet power.
creator: Russian State Archive of Economy
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1920
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека исторических документов (Electronic Library of Historical Documents)
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: science
subject: technology
subject: aviation
subject: political institution
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: Jewish
subject: White Army
subject: law
subject: justice
subject: Gulag
subject: foreign relations
subject: Comintern
subject: youth
subject: security service
subject: partisan
subject: economy
subject: peasantry
subject: administrative-territorial division
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: legal source
description: Digital library of various historical documents developed by the Russian Historical Society.
creator: Russian Historical Society
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1883-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: South Caucasus
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Germany

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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