KGB
secret police
security service
intelligence
foreign relations
Soviet-Romanian relations
political repression
Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
Igor Casu
Link to the Resource
Other social media
Digital document collection
Social media
Russian
Romanian
USSR
Moldova
Eastern Europe
Romania
Игорь Петров (Igor Petrov) LiveJournal Page
Soviet-German relations
World War Ⅱ
army
military
political institution
education
politics
economy
industry
health
culture
science
technology
P.O.W.
The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often related to the Second World War.
Igor Petrov
LiveJournal blog
Germany
Culture
art and architecture
film
avant-garde
Great Terror
everyday life
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
Digital project
Driving axle; a novel of socialist construction.
Il’enkov, V (Vasilii).
Access through HOLLIS
International publishers
1933
Il’f, Il’ia
Vintage Books
1961
Little golden America; two famous Soviet humorists survey these United States.
Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
1937
Random House
1962
«ImWerden», электронная библиотека Андрея Никитина-Перенского (ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky)
literature
history
Gulag
linguistics
philology
music
geography
law
architecture
ethnography
personal narrative
legal source
literature & arts
Digital library that provides free access to a great number of digital copies of Russian books and periodicals. You can also find audio recordings of authors reading their own works on this website.
ImWerden: Digital Library of Andrei Nikitin-Perensky
Digital library
Russia
Inber, Vera
Hutchinson & Co.(Publishers) Ltd.
1971
Trade unions in Soviet Russia: a collection of Russian trade union documents.
Trade-unions
Russia (Federation)
Independent Labour Party (Great Britain). Information Committee.
Check access on WorldCat
The Labour Research Dept.
1920
periodicals
art
general
propaganda
Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
Digital collection
Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus
rehabilitation
ideology
intellectual
A civic project that collects and presents oral history interviews, photographs, archival documents, and other materials related to Soviet political repressions in Belarus.
Belarusian
Belarus
The shady avengers; a review of the crimes and hypocrisy of the men in the Kremlin as revealed by themselves in official statements and documents of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held in Moscow in October, 1961.
Soviet Union
Politics and government –1936-1953
Information Center on Soviet Affairs.
Information Center on Soviet Affairs
Газеты периода первой мировой и гражданских войн (Newspapers of the Period of the First World War and the Russian Civil War)
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
INION RAN and Fond "Istoriia otechestva"
Ukrainian
Ukraine
Central Asia
Turkestan
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Far East
Siberia
Caucasus
Baltics
The Soviet Union and the Berlin question: documents.
History
Allied occupation, 1945-
Sources
Institut des langues orientales (Russia).
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
1948
The Soviet Union and the Korean questions: documents.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Korea
Foreign relations
Anti-semitism and nationalism at the end of the Soviet era.
Nationalism
20th century
Antisemitism
Ethnic relations
Institut gumanitarno-politicheskikh issledovanii (Moscow, Russia).
IDC
1993
Czechoslovaks in the Gulag (Czechoslovaks in the Gulag)
foreign policy
NKVD
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
Online database
Czech
Czechoslovakia
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
nationalities
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"
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
global
Электронный фотоархив ИЭА РАН (Digital Photo Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Uyghur
Kazakh
ethnology
anthropology
Korean
Azeri
Armenian
Dungan
migration
Georgian
Jew
Uzbek
Tatar
Tajik
Turkmen
Kyrgyz
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Digital archive
Amur
Sakhalin
Stalingrad
Volga
Dagestan
Mordovia
Caspian Sea
Інститут історії України (Institute of History of Ukraine)
social sciences
historiography
humanities
Chernobyl
Revolution
Holodomor
Crimean Tatar
OUN
UPA
nation-building
Official website of the Institute of History of Ukraine, which presents a lot of useful digital resources. It provides access to digitized encyclopedias of the history of Ukraine published in different years. Its digital library contains full-text academic publications - books and periodicals - on the history of Ukraine published from the 1930s till today. On the "Projects" page, you can find various digital projects on Ukrainian history. The "Internet resources" page has links to hundreds of relevant external resources for studying the history of Ukraine.
Institute of History of Ukraine
Архив академика А. П. Ершова (Archive of the Academic A. P. Ershov)
Andrei Ershov
programming
computer science
Digital archive of documents related to Andrei Ershov, a prominent Soviet academic of information science.
Institute of Informatics Systems of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Jews
Persecutions
Aircraft
Hijacking
Trials of Jews Russia, 1970
Extracts from primary sources
Institute of Jewish Affairs.
Institute of Jewish Affairs
Ukrainian Studies
theater
poetry
religion
political science
folklore
folk culture
Digital library that contains digital copies of Ukrainian diaspora publications from the pre-revolution period through the post-Soviet era.
Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Classical Private University (Zaporizhia)
Poland
Canada
USA
ИПС "Әділет" Legal information system of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan
legislation
local administration
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
Institute of legislation and legal information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Sino-Soviet relations
women
Korean War
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
trade
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.
Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
Chinese
China
North Korea
Mongolia
Manchuria
Japan
韓戰俄檔案館的解密文件 (Declassified Russian Archival Documents on the Korean War)
Cold War
Digitized document collection on the Korean War, originally compiled by Shen Zhihua, a Chinese historian, and published in Taiwan. The collection contains more than 1400 pages of Chinese translations of Russian archival documents on the subject.
South Korea
Публикации Института восточных рукописей РАН (Publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy os Sciences)
Oriental Studies
language
national culture
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
Tatarstan
Трагедия Советской деревни. Коллективизация и раскулачивание (The Tragedy of the Soviet Village: Collectivization and Dekulakization, 1927-1939)
collectivization
dekulakization
famine
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Электронная библиотека Института русской литературы (Пушкинского Дома) РАН (Digital Library of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
scholarship
The digital library of the Institute of Russian Literature of the RAS, providing free access to digital copies of the Institute's publications and other literary studies publications.
Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Рукописи онлайн (Manuscripts Online - Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature, RAS)
Aleksandr Blok
Andrei Belyi
Innokentii Annenskii
Marina Tsvetaeva
Fedor Sologub
Digitized manuscripts of Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Innokentii Annenskii, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Fedor Sologub.
Documents on Polish-Soviet relations, 1939- 1945.
Occupation, 1939-1945
Instytut Historyczny imienia Generala Sikorskiego.
Heinemann
International Association for the Study of the Cultures of Central Asia
Nauka
1982-
Documentary evidence exhibits received by the International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine.
Famines
International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine. United States.
The Commission
Bolshevik terror against socialists: documents and facts.
Socialism
Communism
Terrorism
Political persecution
International Committee for Political Prisoners.
Committee for Political Prisoners in Russia
1925
Letters from Russian prisons consisting of reprints of documents by political prisoners in Soviet prisons, prison camp and exile, and reprints of affidavits concerning political persecution in Soviet Russia, official statements by Soviet authorities, excerpts from Soviet laws pertaining to civil liberties, and other documents. With introductory letters by twenty-two well known European and American authors.
Political prisoners
Concentration camps
Siberia (Russia)
Exiles
A. & C. Boni
hunger
agriculture
statistics
Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
International Contact Group for research on on issues of historical political economy in former Soviet archives
English
Access through Warwick Department of Economics
Aerial incident of October 7th, 1952 (United States of America v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Order of March 14th, 1956
United States
Claims vs Russia
International Court of Justice.
International Court of Justice
1957
International Institute of Social History
Д.А.Кунаев. Официальный сайт (D.A. Kunaev. Official Site)
political leader
Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
International Konaev Fund
Trade union rights in the U.S.S.R. documents relating to the case concerning the U.S.S.R. deAlternative: with by the Committee on Freedom of Association of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office in its 23rd and 27th reports.
International Labour Office.
1959
International Peace Walk
Archives
Arms control
Citizen participation
International Peace Walk.
1986
Documents and materials relating to the eve of the Second World War.
Sakharov, Andrei, 1921-
Minorities
Civil rights
Common Committee of East Exiles in Denmark
Congresses
International Sakharov Hearings (1st : 1975 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
Smoloskyp Publishers
1977
Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project
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
Odessa Oblast
Hungary
Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project (Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project )
Access through Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project
Хроники Приангарья: электронная библиотека (Chronicles of Priangarye)
industrialization
Great Patriotic War
Perestroika
local study
local history
ecology
environment
New Economic Policy
Digital library of Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library, containing a huge number of digital copies of Soviet books, periodicals, and photographs about the Irkutsk region.
Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library
Irkutsk Oblast
Все периодические издания электронной библиотеки "Хроники Приангарья" (All Periodicals of the Electronic Library "Chronicles of Priangarye" )
Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
Iskander, Fazil’
Progress Publishers
1972
Ardis
1989