Виртуальный музей современной истории России (Virtual Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia)
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Great Patriotic War
Cold War
Perestroika
general
numismatics
New Economic Policy
Digital exhibits of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
USSR
Russia
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)
labor
worker
economy
law
legislation
labor law
legal source
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.
Moscow State University Department of Historical Informatics
Digital project
Публикации Института восточных рукописей РАН (Publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy os Sciences)
Oriental Studies
science
culture
nationalities
religion
humanities
social sciences
language
linguistics
national culture
history
folklore
folk culture
anthropology
ethnography
philology
turkology
Muslim
Islam
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.
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Digital library
China
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Georgia
Siberia
Far East
Manchuria
Tatarstan
Japan
Korea
Книги и монографии Института востоковедения РАН (Books and Monographs of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)
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.
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Afghanistan
Africa
Pakistan
Mongolia
Turkey
Caucasus
Iran
Crimea
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Marxism
Communism
ideology
collected works
Revolution
propaganda
terror
economics
international relations
foreign policy
music
art
everyday life
personal narrative
literature & arts
A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
Marxists Internet Archive
English
Portuguese
German
Arabic
Dutch
French
Swedish
Spanish
global
Europe
Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ) (The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB))
literature
Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Научная педагогическая электронная библиотека - Библиотека имени К. Д. Ушинского (Scientific Pedagogical Electronic Library - K.D. Ushinskii Library)
education
pedagogy
Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
psychology
educational institutions
Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
K. D. Ushinskii Library
Archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Sino-Soviet relations
foreign relations
military
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Digital archive
Ленин: Революционер, мыслитель, человек (Lenin: Revolutionary, thinker, human being)
Lenin
political leader
memory
personal cult
Leninism
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.
leninism.su
Россия и марксизм в ХХ веке (Russia and Marxism in the XX Century)
Leon Trotsky
Bolshevism
Fourth International
Lev Kamenev
Grigory Zinoviev
opposition
Politburo
Stalin
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.
Iskra-Research
Демоскоп Weekly: Переписи населения Российской Империи, СССР, 15 новых независимых государств (Demoscop Weekly: Censuses of the Russian Empire, the USSR, 15 New Independent States)
demographics
population
gender
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.
Institute of Demography of the National Research Institute "Higher School of Economics"
Online database
Ukraine
Belarus
Moldova
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
periodicals
political institution
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
Culture
art and architecture
film
avant-garde
Great Terror
book
children
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.
Il'ia Starkov
Законодательство СССР (Legislation of the USSR)
Online database of laws of the USSR from 1917 till 1991.
World and Market Economy: Articles and Books
Воспоминания о Ленине (Memories about Lenin )
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)
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.
History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
statistics
census
agriculture
A Dutch-Russian joint project containing Russian historical statistics from the imperial and Soviet periods.
Gijs Kessler (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Andrei Markevich (New Economic School, Moscow)
National Security Archive Virtual Reading Room
diplomacy
intelligence
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.
George Washington University
USA
Коллекции исторических документов - Архива Национальной Безопасности (Collections of Historical Documents - Russian Programs of the National Security Archive)
Chernobyl
Anatolii Chernyaev
Gorbachev
Mikoyan
Soviet-American relations
dissident
Soviet-Afghan War
Carribean Crisis
Aleksandr Yakovlev
Revolutions of 1989
KGB
security service
secret police
Brezhnev
Russian-language archival document collections of the National Security Archive, containing extensive archival documents on different topics.
National Security Archive, George Washington University
Eastern Europe
Poland
Мемуары, дневники, автобиографии (Twirpx) (Memoirs, Diaries, and Autobiographies (Twirpx))
memoir
diary
veteran
crime
celebrity
A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
Forum by Russian and former Soviet country academic school community
emigration
emigre
theater
Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
Fedor Soumkine
espionage
Operation SOLO
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.
FBI
Электронный научный архив УрФУ (Digital Scientific Archive of the Ural Federal University)
press
archaeology
natural science
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".
Ural Federal University
Ural
100 раритетов российской государственности (100 Rarities of Russian Statehood)
statehood
An exhibit with 100 rare and famous documents on Russian statehood, which includes three categories on the Soviet period.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Документы Советской эпохи (Documents of the Soviet Era)
Party organization
Comintern
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.
Андропов (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Andropov)
Yuri Andropov
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.
Брежнев (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Brezhnev)
Leonid Brezhnev
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.
Хрущев (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Khrushchev)
Khrushchev
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.
Ленин (из серии "Вожди советской эпохи") (Leaders of the Soviet Period: Lenin)
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.
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.
Europeana Foundation
Прожито. Личные истории в электронном корпусе дневников (Prozhito. Personal Histories in the Electronic Corpus of Diaries)
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.
European University (Saint Petersburg)
Ukrainian
Belarusian
100(0) ключевых документов по Российской и Советской истории (1917-1991) (100(0) Key Documents on Russian and Soviet History (1917-1991) )
A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
Dr. Helmut Altrichter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität)
Электронная библиотека "Венёвский уезд" (Electronic Library "Venevskii uezd")
Venev
urban history
local history
local study
urban planning
A website on the Venev Uezd in Tula Oblast containing local historical sources, including books and newspapers.
Denis Makhel'
Tula Oblast
Архив открытого доступа Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета (Research Repository of Saint Petersburg State University)
justice
trade
finance
commercial law
financial law
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.
Saint-Petersburg State University
space race
Sputnik
CIA
Open-access archive of the CIA, containing a large number of declassified CIA reports, leaked Soviet documents, oral history, etc.
Central Intelligence Agency
Germany
cartography
geography
A digital map preservation project which presents numerous digitized high-resolution maps of the USSR.
Cartography Associates
Armenian
Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War and USSR 1917-1991
bibliography
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.
Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library
Электронный архив Удмуртии (Electronic Archive of Udmurtia)
Udmurtia
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.
Archive of Udmurtia
Udmurt
Архивная служба Воронежской области (Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast)
Voronezh Oblast
German occupation
White Army
Ivan Vrachev
Voronezh
state
writing
poetry
Administration of Culture
technology
engineering
Russian Artists' Union
medicine
health
doctor
scholarship
academics
agronomy
plays
space program
astronautics
puppet theater
youth
komsomol
hospital
social services
N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University
archive
civil society
Russian Children's Fond
Soviet World Fond
Russian World Fond
students
construction
construction brigade
railroad
South-Western Railroad
hero of socialist labor
Baikalo-Amur Railroad
women
Kseniia Zorikina
Danila Kutsygin
reconstruction
home front
concentration camp
prisoners
defence
pioneer organization
transportation
virgin lands campaign
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.
Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
Online exhibition
Электронная библиотека (репозиторий) ТГУ (Digital Library (Repository) of Tomsk State University)
Digital library of the Tomsk State University, providing open access to digitized university publications, archival documents, and other types of materials.
Tomsk State University
Tomsk Oblast
Red Army
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.
Aleksandr Kiian et al.
Журналы 1920-х гг. (Magazines of the 1920s)
printing
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.
Aleksandr Galushin
Konstantin Polivanov
Lev Turchinskii
Andrei Bogachev
Olga Kaziutina