The Periodicals Collection of the National Library of Latvia
printing
press
culture
diaspora
children
youth
agriculture
satire
propaganda
Digital database of periodical publications of Latvia from the 18th century till today. The database provides open access to plentiful digitized Soviet-era Latvian periodical issues, including those published by Latvian diaspora groups.
National Library of Latvia
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Latvian
Russian
Latvia
Eastern Europe
Baltics
The Book Collection of the National Library of Latvia
poetry
literature
science
library
World War Ⅱ
philosophy
deportation
art
linguistics
archaeology
Jew
nationalities
urban planning
theater
language
ethnology
political institution
folk culture
folklore
education
mathematics
economy
fishing
literature & arts
Digital books collection of the National Library of Latvia, providing open access to plentiful digitized Soviet Latvian books on various topics.
Центральный государственный архив кинофотодокументов и звукозаписей Республики Казахстан (Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
cinema
film
leisure
intellectual
tourism
Great Patriotic War
festival
religion
Muslim
Islam
political repression
An interesting media resource. On the website, you can search for information about films, photographs, and audio materials at Kazakhstan's Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recording. The digital copies of some photographs and audio recordings are directly accessible from the website. The website also presents many interesting exhibitions of visual materials under the "Выставки" and "Медиа канал KFDZ" sections.
Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Online database
Online exhibition
Kazakhstan
Russia
Siberia
Tomsk
Orenburg
Central Asia
E-resource - Центральниий державний архів громадських об'єднань України (Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine)
World War I
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
repression
Cold War
Perestroika
forestry
health
medicine
social sciences
humanities
natural science
New Economic Policy
Digital archive of the State Archive of Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine that provides access to the full-text reference apparatus of the archive and its digitized fonds. Digitized materials are available for viewing online, and non-digitized cases can be ordered to the archive reading room online through a personal account.
Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine
Digital archive
Ukrainian
Ukraine
Romania
Lithuania
England
Germany
Bessarabia
Poland
Volyn
Georgia
Galicia
Donbas
Kronshtadt
Crimea
Kuban
Kyiv
Luhansk
Odessa
Hungary
USSR
Chernihiv
Kharkiv
law
technology
legal source
Digital library created by the Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University. It contains digital copies of rare books, manuscripts, and periodicals related to science and education. In particular, it has a big collection of Kharkiv publications.
Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Latvijas PSR VDK dokumenti (Latvian SSR KGB Documents)
KGB
security service
local administration
secret police
Digital archive of documents of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvia SSR, containing extensive documents about the structure, personnel, and operation of the KGB in Latvia.
National Archives of Latvia
„Lietuvos ypatingojo archyvo saugomų skaitmeninių vaizdų archyvas“ (E-vaizdų archyvas) ("Archive of Digital Images Protected by the Lithuanian Special Archive" (E-Image Archive))
Holocaust
insurgency
resistance
nationalism
NKVD
Party organization
public health
sport
This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of video, film and audio documents confiscated or secretly made by the KGB.
Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
Lithuanian
Elektroninio archyvo informacinė sistema (EAIS) (Electronic Archive Information System (EAIS))
everyday life
foreign policy
diplomacy
diplomat
dissident
pioneer organization
police
personal narrative
Digital archival system of the archives of Lithuania, where you can easily access extensive digitized archival documents and finding aids of Lithuanian state archives.
USA
Norway
Brazil
Canada
FOTIS Rahvusarhiivi fotoinfosüsteem (FOTIS National Archive Photo Database)
architecture
Photo database of the National Archives of Estonia, containing a huge number of photographs from different periods.
National Archives of Estonia
Estonian
Estonia
cartography
urban history
A huge database of maps and other cartographic materials published in the territory of Estonia in different periods.
memory
oral history
Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century.
Centropa.org
Digital project
English
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Moldova
Belarus
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
China
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Austria
Slovenia
Serbia
Bulgaria
Western Europe
Balkans
Интегрированный банк "Законодательство России" (Integrated Bank "Legislation of Russia")
legislation
Online database of the official texts of federal and regional legislation of Russia from 1917 to today.
State Legal Information System, Russia
Красноярский Меридиан. Электронная краеведческая библиотека (Krasnoyarsk Meridian. Digital Local Study Library)
local study
migration
ecology
environment
Revolution
railroad
Digital local study library developed by the Krasnoyarsk State Universal Scientific Library. It contains a lot of Soviet-era local periodicals and books from/about the region.
State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
social history
World War II
partisan
refugee
profession
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. The HPSSS’s value is compounded by the fact that it was compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework, making it accessible to a broad range of students and scholars.
Harvard University
Публичная библиотека (Электронные книжные полки Вадима Ершова и К°) (Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°))
biology
physics
astronomy
philology
political science
energy
cuisine
psychology
transportation
Digital library developed by a group of Russian specialists. Here you can find tons of Soviet and contemporary books, journals, newspapers of all kinds, especially academic publications.
Public Library (Digital bookshelves of Vadim Ershov and К°)
Электронная библиотека Новосибирской государственной областной научной библиотеки (Digital Library of Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library)
geography
infrastructure
local history
Soviet-Afghan War
industrial development
German
avant-garde
Digital library that contains a great number of digital copies of publications on the history, culture, people, traditions, and everyday life of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberia in general.
Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
Novosibirsk Oblast
Far East
Казанский университет: Историко-культурный ландшафт (Kazan University: Historical-Cultural Landscape)
Tatar
Digital library of the Kazan Federal University, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of local periodical issues, books, manuscripts, university publications, and other types of materials. In particular, it has a huge newspaper collection, where you can find digitized local newspapers in different languages from the pre-Revolution era to today.
Academic Library of Kazan Federal University
Kazan
Tatarstan
protest
mass media
labor
Brezhnev
foreign relations
national security
trade
history
food
Stalin
housing
crime
family
music
humor
celebrity
Princeton University Library's digitized collections of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials. These collections include many rare and unique materials, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals. Princeton’s most intensive collecting foci in Slavic are Russian and Soviet literature; performing arts in Russia and the Soviet Union; Russian and Soviet visual culture; political, social, and intellectual history of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union, including the history of science and pseudoscience; Soviet illustrated periodicals; and contemporary politics and society.
Princeton University Library
Collections of the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
Warsaw Pact
East Bloc
Soviet-Indonesian Relations
Indo-Soviet relations
Soviet-Yugoslav relations
Soviet-Swedish relations
NATO
1961 Berlin crisis
intelligence
Collection of archival documents from different countries on the global Cold War. Documents have been translated into English.
Indonesia
India
Yugoslavia
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
Stalinism
church
collapse of the USSR
Collection of archival documents on various topics in Soviet history.
Viacheslav Grigorievich Shcherbakov
Digital collection
Электронный архив Новосибирской области (Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
Novosibirsk
general
Electronic archive of Novosibirsk Oblast archive. It contains photographs of aspects of economic and social life in Novosibirsk and a number of maps of the region, as well as a few other documents on the Soviet period.
Electronic Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)
Astrakhan Oblast
Akhtubinsk
construction
Battle of Stalingrad
Ikrianinskii District
canning
collective farm
natural gas
industry
archive
scholarship
hospital
healthcare
women
evacuation
letter
veteran
A number of exhibits on social and economic life in the Astrakhan oblast, as well as on the participation of individuals and groups within the region in the Great Patriotic War. There is also some material on politics and administration.
Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
Уникальные проекты страны Советов. Историко-документальная выставка. (Unique Projects of the nations of Soviets: A Historico-documentary Exhibit)
Online exhibit of the Russian state archive in Samara. It presents documents and photographs relating to several large Soviet technological, scientific, and construction projects.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Виртуальные выставки (Virtual Exhibits of Russian State Archive in Samara)
economics
biography
Collection of online exhibits on various aspects of economic, cultural, and social life in the Samara oblast, as well as the scientific/technological achievements of the region.
Samara Oblast
samizdat
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Amal'rik
Aleksandr Sviashch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vladimir Albrecht
Vladimir Bukovsky
Small collection of samizdat works on a site dedicated to the work of Soviet religious and secular thinkers and writers.
"Vekhi" Library
#исторический-источник (VK wall) (#historical-source (VK wall))
A VK page devoted to various historical sources. It contains a motley group of sources on various topics in Russian history (each post is on a separate theme) and is mostly made up of the posts of "student-istorik," an account for humor and educational resources created by students of the Moscow State University historical faculty.
@student-istorik
Digital document collection
База патентов СССР (Database of Patents of the USSR)
patent
engineering
light industry
welfare
copyright
Database of copyright certificates and patents for inventions issued in the USSR.
Культура Алтая в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 (The Culture of Altai in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Documentary collection downloadable from the site of the state archive of the Altai Krai. It includes documents, drawings, and statistics about Altai culture during the Great Patriotic War.
A. P. Anashkin et al.
Altai Krai
painting
Digital collections on the site of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum. They contain images of art from Russia and Western Europe during various historical periods, but can be filtered by country and/or date of creation to find Soviet art.
A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art
Александр Солженицын: Из-под глыб. Рукописи, документы, фотографии. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: From Under the Rocks. Manuscripts, Documents, Photographs )
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Online exhibit about Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the website of the Russian Historical Society. It contains documents, photographs, and physical objects about his life and work.
Russian Historical Society
75-летие Победы (The 75th Anniversary of Victory)
Commemorative page for the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War on the official site of the Administration of the Ordzhonikidze Raion. It contains a few resources about the experience of the war by citizens of the district, as well as a few reference sources about the contents of relevant archives.
Administration of Ordzhonikidze Raion
Ordzhonikidze district (Republic of Khakassia)
От солдата до генерала. Воспоминания о войне (From Soldier to General: Memories about War)
soldiers
Digitized document collection of war memoirs from the Great Patriotic War. It is a collaboration between the Academy of Military-Historical Sciences and the Council of Veterans of the Fourth Guard Tank Army to preserve the memoirs of the veterans of this army.
Academy of Historical Sciences of Russia
Демография России и Российской империи на интернете (The Demography of Russia and the Russian Empire on Internet)
statistics
late Soviet period
Resource on the demography of tsarist and Soviet Russia compiled by two academics, Aleksandr Avdeev of Moscow State University and Alain Blum of Institut national d'études démographiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales. It contains a number of demographic data and maps.
Aleksandr Avdeev
Alaim Blum
Добровольческий корпус (Volunteer Corps)
White Army
emigre
A site with numerous memoirs of white officers. It also contains a few photographs and images of archival documents on the same theme.
Aleksandr Makarov
Elena Glebova
Europe
global
Окрестности Петербурга (The Outskirts of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg
Kronstadt Rebellion
military
Karelia
Vyborg
international relations
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
Site about the local history of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas. It provides access to numerous primary source materials (orders, memoir collections, etc.) about important events in the region as well as about the history of Soviet-Finnish relations.
Aleksei Shvarev
Finland
national culture
Website devoted to the history of Azerbaijan. It includes numerous documents (orders, congress proceedings, reports, notes, etc.) on the subject, as well as some images of Soviet-era currency.
Aliya Gurbanova
Azerbaijani
South Caucasus
Nicholas II
Alexander Kerensky
Page from an educational site about the Russian Revolution. It includes numerous major documents relating to the events of the revolution in English translation.
Alpha History
Gulag
dekulakization
mass operations
Great Terror
anti-Semitism
purge
Memorial site devoted to the victims of Soviet political repression. It is primarily devoted to collecting information about victims, but also includes numerous archival documents and photographs of use to historians.
Andrei Shalaiev
Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
military strategy
Site with numerous military maps that describe the events of the Great Patriotic War.
Andrey Lopatnev
Человек, Политик, Дипломат (к 90-летию со дня рождения В. И. Воротникова) (Man, Politician, Diplomat (To the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Vorotnikov))
Vitalii Vorotnikov
Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast
100 лет Государственной архивной службе Воронежской области (100th Anniversary of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast)
Voronezh Oblast
Document collection including photographs and a few archival documents about the work of the Archival Service of the Voronezh Oblast. It is displayed on this organization's website.
Большой террор в Абхазии (Абхазская АССР): 1937-1938 гг. (The Great Terror in Abkhazia (Abkhazian ASSR): 1937-1938)
Purges
Three-volume document collection on the Great Terror in Abkhazia.
Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
Abkhazia
World War Ⅰ
Lenin
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sino-Soviet relations
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
New York Times
Большевистский порядок в Грузии. В 2-х томах (Bolshevik Order in Georgia. 2 Volumes.)
Two-volume document collection and oral history interview collection on the Great Terror in Georgia. The first volume includes six long interviews with the descendants of the victims of the Great Terror in Georgia, and the second volumes consists of archival documents and statistical data on the Great Terror in Georgia.
АИРО-XXI
Digitalisierte Zeitungstitel (List of digitized newspapers)
ideology
Digitized newspaper editions of the Berlin State Library, including several Russian emigres newspapers, such as Novoe slovo, Naš mir, and Nakanune.
Berlin State Library
Commemorative site with interviews of veterans of the Great Patriotic War supported by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. It also includes soldiers' letters and audio recordings of veterans' narratives.
Artem Drabkin et al.
Библиотека проекта "Московское метро" Артемия Лебедева (Moscow Metro Electronic Library)
Moscow metro
Site dedicated to the Moscow metro and containing resources about its construction and history. It includes contemporaneous newspaper articles and personal accounts by various people (architects, engineers, builders) associated with the metro.
Artemii Lebedev Studio
Moscow
1917: Digital Resources on the Russian Revolution
Annotated bibliography of a number of digitized sources on the Russian Revolution. It links to a number of sites with documents, charts, posters, and photographs (among other resources) about the revolution.
ASEEES
1917
Жизнь и поэзия Николая Рубцова: душа хранит [письма] (The Life and Poetry of Nikolai Rubtsov: The Spirit Retains [Letters] )
Nikolai Rubtsov
Site commemorating the life and work of Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov. It contains digital copies of some of his works, drafts, and correspondence.
Ber Borochov
Jewish
Marxism
Internet archive with the works of Marxist Zionist Ber Borochov (1881-1917). It contains a number of his works and links to other relevant websites.
Ber Borochov Internet Archive