Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Дніпропетровської області Офіційний (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Chernobyl
Crimean Tatar
nationalities
deportation
World War Ⅱ
political repression
literature
intellectual
culture
education
Ukrainian Revolution
Holodomor
science
migration
archive
literature & arts
State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Link to the Resource
Online exhibition
Ukrainian
Russian
Ukraine
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Виставки он-лайн - Державний архів Київської області. (Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast)
law
theater
art
Soviet-Afghan War
Ostarbeiter
legal source
State Archive of Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast
Національний банк даних жертв політичних репресій радянської доби в Україні (National Data Bank of the Victims of Soviet-era Political Repressions in Ukraine)
Great Terror
Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
Online database
Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project
religion
This digital collection presents visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground within the archives of the secret police in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection features confiscated photographs, surveillance photographs, brochures, icons, drawings, letters hymns, and diaries. Materials are from archives in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary.
Ionuț Biliuță
Iuliana Cindrea
Roland Clark
Ágnes Hesz
James Kapaló
Dumitru Lisnic
Iemima Ploscariu
Kinga Povedák
Anca Șincan
Tatiana Vagramenko
Digital archive
English
Moldova
Eastern Europe
Odessa Oblast
Hungary
Romania
Redzi, dzirdi Latviju! (See, hear Latvia!)
architecture
cinema
medicine
everyday life
economy
sport
transportation
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents
Latvian
Latvia
Baltics
Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Волинської області (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast)
local administration
political institution
music
Jew
Taras Shevchenko
Lesya Ukrainka
State Archive of Volyn Oblast
Volyn
Виставки Державного архіву Запорізької області (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
famine
Great Patriotic War
ethnography
partisan
State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
E-архів - Державний архів Луганської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
Digital collection of civil status registration records of the Luhansk region between 1939-1945, as well as imperial-era metric books.
State Archive of Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast
Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Луганської області (Document Exhibitions Online - State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
statehood
Цифровий архів: скановані справи - Державний Архів Миколаївської області (Digital Archive: Scanned Cases - State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast)
genealogy
folklore
folk culture
Digital archive of the State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast that contains digital copies of imperial-era metric books and Soviet-era house books from the 1920s to the 1940s.
State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast
Е-архів - Державний архів Тернопільської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast)
Digital archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast, consisting of a digital reading room for reading finding aids and digitalized documents, and an online exhibition section.
State Archive of Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast
Galicia
Радянські фонди - Електронний архів Державного архіву Чернівецької області (Soviet Fonds of the Digital Archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast)
press
printing
agriculture
Red Army
urban history
archaeology
Digital archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, consisting of a collection of old photos and a collection of the digital copies of the newspaper "Soviet Bukovyna" from 1940 to 1944.
State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast
Bukovina
Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Digitized Opisi and Cases Online - State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
Party organization
Digitized finding aids and some documents of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast. The digital archive contains a lot of documents, but they are not organized in a clear way. Users may read the finding aids first, and then check out digitized "SPRAVI" to access original documents.
State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Online Document Collections of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
Holocaust
peasantry
personal narrative
Czechoslovaks in the Gulag (Czechoslovaks in the Gulag)
foreign policy
Gulag
KGB
NKVD
secret police
security service
Digital project developed by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes aimed at documenting political repression against Czechoslovaks in the Soviet Union. Currently, the project website has published testimonies of survivors, specialist and popularising articles, databases, exhibitions and video recordings of debates, as well as links to related projects. In the future, thousands of NKVD/KGB documents from Ukraine will be published on the project website.
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Digital project
Czech
USSR
Czechoslovakia
Архив расписаний передач телеканалов и радио (Archive of the Programs of Television Channels and Radio)
media
radio
television
leisure
A collection of TV and radio programs in Russia, the former Soviet Union, as well as other world countries from 1950 till today. Data on Russia are the most comprehensive, while data on other countries are inconsistent.
Digital collection
Russia
Belarus
Lithuania
Estonia
Germany
Georgia
Uzbekistan
Yugoslavia
Кадровый состав органов государственной безопасности СССР. 1935−1939 (The Personnel of the NKVD in the 1930s)
Online database developed by the International Memorial, providing information about the personnel of the Soviet NKVD during 1935 and 1939.
Memorial
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Жертвы политического террора в СССР (Victims of Soviet Political Repressions)
A huge database of victims of Soviet political repressions developed by the International Memorial.
Афганистан 1979-1989 (Afghanistan 1979-1989)
A great number of declassified archival documents on Soviet policy towards Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
National Security Archive, George Washington University
Afghanistan
Возрождение 1925-1939 (Vozrozhdenie 1925-1939)
diaspora
anti-Communist
Vozrozhdenie was a Russian-language daily newspaper published in Paris, France, founded in 1925. The newspaper was anti-Communist and circulated amongst the Russian diaspora around the world.
Princeton University Library
France
Бюллетень Оппозиции (большевиков-ленинцев) (Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninist))
Trotsky
Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
Stalin
political leader
Fourth International
class struggle
Marxism
ideology
Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) was a Russian-language journal (printed in Cyrillic characters) launched by Leon Trotsky in July 1929 after his expulsion from the USSR. It was the printed organ of the Russian section of the Fourth International and a weapon of Trotsky in his struggle with Stalin.
Iskra-Research
celebration
children
army
aeroflot
Lenin
propaganda
Collection of Soviet postcards from different periods and regions.
Архивные online проекты - Портал Архивы России (Online Archival Projects - Portal "Archives of Russia")
P.O.W.
World War II
Georgii Malenkov
Polish-Soviet War
Crimea
Alexei Kosygin
Munich Agreement
Stalingrad
sputnik
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Andropov
Nuremberg trials
nationalism
OUN
UIA
Yuri Gagarin
A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
Portal "Archives of Russia"
Khabarovsk
Japan
Հայաստանի Ամերիկեան համալսարանի Հայ մատենագրութեան թուանշանային գրադարան (Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia)
Armenology
historiography
philosophy
theology
pedagogy
linguistics
health
geography
travel
translation
journalism
Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia
Digital library
Armenian
Caucasus
ЗВУКОВЫЕ АРХИВЫ: Европейская Память о Гулаге (Sound Archives: European Memories of the Gulag)
women
hunger
From 1939 to 1953, nearly a million people from the European territories annexed by the USSR were deported to the Gulag. This digital project is a compilation of testimony from former deportees, photographs taken during their lives, private and public archival material, and films, collected by an international team of researchers. The website links to a database of more than 180 interviews and is an invitation to explore the history of the Stalinist deportations via thematic and biographical presentations, research articles, and, in the immediate future, educational virtual tours, maps, and an illustrated timeline.
Radio France Internationale (RFI)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Centre d'études des mondes russe caucasien et centre-européen
Polish
French
Poland
Журнал «Советская музыка» (Journal "Soviet Music")
Digital archive of the journal "Soviet Music" from 1933 till 1991.
Union of Composers of the USSR
Ministry of Culture of the USSR
Тамиздат: Русская литература за пределами СССР в электронном архиве документов (1956-1991) (Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature across Borders: An Online Archive of Documents (1956-1991))
book
dissident
Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors, their works, publishers, critics, and reviewers. Many publications can be read online from the website.
USA
Italy
Netherlands
Israel
Dziga Vertov
film
Digital collection of films, writings, photographs, posters, and other materials relating to (and created by) the Soviet filmmaking pioneer and theorist Dziga Vertov (1896–1954).
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
German
КЫРГЫЗСКИЙ ФОТОАРХИВ (Kyrgyz Photo Archive)
photography
Kyrgyz
history
environment
celebrity
Digital project of the Union of Photo Journalists of Kyrgyzstan. On the website you can find thousands of well-annotated historical photographs of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz people. Besides, the website also has a book section and a map section, where you can download digital copies of old books and maps.
Union of Photojournalists of Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia
Turkestan
Научное наследие М.М. Герасимова (Academic Legacy of M.M. Gerasimov)
anthropology
sculpture
Mikhail Gerasimov
Digital project dedicated to Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. On the website, you can download the digital copies of his major works and browse photos, videos, and documents about the scholar.
Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"
Irkutsk
Интернет-проекты Горбачев Фонда (Internet-projects of the Gorbachev Foundation)
collapse of the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Gorbacheva
public opinion
August Coup
Several digital projects of the Gorbachev Foundation focusing on the collapse of the USSR and the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, largely based on personal accounts and old photographs.
The Gorbachev Foundation
Библиография трудов Д.С. Лихачева (Bibliography of Works of D.C. Likhachev)
Dmitry Likhachev
philology
An online bibliography of works of Dmitry Likhachev, with links to downloadable PDF copies.
Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Полное собрание сочинений Ленина (Full Collection of Lenin's Works)
Revolution
Leninism
imperialism
capitalism
communism
socialism
Digitized full collection of Lenin's works in 55 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles.
Materialisticheskaia dialektika
Сталин И.В. Сочинения: Т. 1–18. (I.V. Stalin's Works: V.1-18.)
Stalinism
industrialization
Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
Library of Mikhail Grachev
Cold War
foreign relations
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
British-Soviet relations
broadcast
Marshall Aid
Korean War
Prague Spring
nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Tehran Conference
A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
National Archives of the United Kingdom
Korea
Антисоветская Электронная Библиотека: исторические материалы и книги (Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books)
samizdat
anti-Soviet
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books
labor
camp
karlag
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
Siberia
Електронна бібліотека української літератури (Electronic library of Ukrainian Literature)
national culture
Digital library of Ukrainian literature maintained by Maxim Tarnawsky, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The library provides free access to digital copies of Ukrainian literary works published in different periods.
University of Toronto
Published Research of the RAND Corporation
technology
perestroika
Gorbachev
late socialism
intelligence
Sino-Soviet relations
Soviet-Vietnamese relations
arms control
U.S.-Soviet relations
Soviet-Japanese relations
military
industrial development
RAND Corporation
China
Xinjiang
Памятники жертвам политических репрессий, установленные на территории бывшего СССР (Monuments for the Victims of Political Repressions on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union)
monument
Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Sakharov Center
Nuremberg Trials
Nazi
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.
Harvard Law School Library
Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
Soviet-Hungarian relations
Archival collections of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest contain Hungarian documents on the Soviet bloc, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sino-Soviet relations, Soviet-Afghan War, and other Cold War issues. Documents have been translated into English.
Corvinus University of Budapest
Vietnam
North Korea
Cuba
Operation SOLO
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977. The records of the operation released by the FBI range from March 1958 to April 1966.
FBI
global
Russian Revolution
Jewish
general
Open-access digital collections of Harvard Library, containing many digitized books, periodicals, maps, archival documents, photographs, and other types of primary source materials for researching Soviet history in various languages.
Harvard Library
Persian
Chinese
Yiddish
Spanish
Bulgarian
Hebrew
Digital copy of historian Omeljan Pritsak's inaugural lecture on the Origin of Rus' at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 1975, shared by Steven Seegel on Twitter.
Omeljan Pritsak
1975
Other social media
Social media
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Victor Ardov
Victor Shklovskii
Igor Shelkovskii
A digital archive of oral histories on everyday life, science, technology, and the experiences of the technical-intellectual elite in the USSR.
Moscow State University
Americans in the Land of Lenin: Photographs of Early Soviet Russia
American Expeditionary Force
collectivization
A Duke University exhibit of photographs taken between 1918 and 1930 by two Americans, officer Robert L. Eichelberger and economist Frank Whitson Fetter, who had the opportunity to visit the USSR during that time. The photographs reveal aspects of everyday social and economic life.
Duke University Library
Архив журналов "Наука и жизнь" (Archive of the Magazine "Science and Life")
The official digital archive of the journal "Nauka i zhizn'", which provides free access to a limited number of digitized Soviet-era issues.
Editorial board of Nauka i Zhizn'
Электронная библиотека СПбПУ (Digital Library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University)
natural science
Digital library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, containing digital copies of the university's publications, including academic books and periodicals, as well as more general publications on university history and everyday life.
Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University
Leningrad
Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
fall of the Berlin Wall
fall of Communism
A site devoted to 1980s resistance movements in Eastern Europe and the events leading up to 1989. It contains official documents, American intelligence files, photographs, posters, and other documents.
German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
National Endowment for the Humanities
1989
Albania
Bulgaria