culture
everyday life
Zelenograd
Digital exhibits from the Zelenograd Museum.
The Moscow Department of Culture
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
Russia
USSR
fashion
leisure
consumption
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Fashion.
urban history
Moscow
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
Музей-заповедник Царицыно (Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno)
museum
art
Tsaritsyno
ecology
parks and gardens
literature & arts
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Preserve Tsaritsyno.
Музей-усадьба "Кусково" ("Kuskovo" Museum)
Digital exhibits from the "Kuskovo" Museum.
Мультимедия Арт Музей, Москва (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow)
Digital exhibits from the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Школа акварели Сергея Андрияки (Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School)
Sergei Andriyaka
intellectual
Digital exhibits from the Sergei Andriyaka Watercolor Painting School.
Дом русского зарубежья А. Солженицына (The A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration )
emigration
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
emigre
Digital exhibits from the A. Solzhenitsyn Museum of Russian Emigration
global
Музей инстории ГУЛАГа (Museum of Gulag History)
Gulag
crime
political police
labor camp
prisoners
political repression
Great Terror
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Gulag History.
Государственный музей Владимира Высоцкого (State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum)
music
Vladimir Vysotskii
Digital exhibits from the State Vladimir Vysotskii Museum.
Государственный музей В. В. Маяковского (State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Liudmilla Mayakovskaya
literature
textiles
Digital exhibits from the State Museum of V. V. Mayakovsky.
Московский музей современного искусства (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
photography
sculpture
Digital exhibits from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Киноклуб-музей "Эльдар" (Cinema Club-Museum "Eldar")
El'dar Riazanov
cinema
Digital exhibits from the Cinema Club-Museum "El'dar".
Галерея Ильи Глазунова (The Ilia Glazunov Gallery)
Ilia Glazunov
Digital exhibits from the Ilia Glazunov Gallery.
Alexander Bourganov
Digital exhibits from the Bourganov House.
Московская государственная картинная галерея Василия Нестеренко (Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery )
Vasilii Nesterenko
Digital exhibits from the Moscow State Vasilii Nesterenko Picture Gallery .
Музейно-выставочное объединение "Манеж" (Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh")
theater
Digital exhibits from the Museum-Exhibit Union "Manezh".
Виртуальные выставки Музея-заповедника "Сталинградская битва" (Virtual Exhibitions of the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad")
Great Patriotic War
propaganda
letter
Russian Civil War
Red Army
White Army
Battle of Stalingrad
personal narrative
Virtual exhibitions of the Museum-Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad", featuring various war-related materials.
The Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad"
Online exhibition
Музейные коллекции Музея-заповедника "Сталинградская битва" (Museum Collections of the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad")
Photographs of people and objects, posters, postcards, books and periodicals, and other types of materials from the Museum and Preserve "The Battle of Stalingrad".
NKVD
dekulakization
KGB
secret police
deportation
labor
Oral history project of the Museum of Gulag history that recollects memories of the people who were affected by Soviet political repressions. Interviewees include the repressed themselves, their children, former NKVD members, Children of NKVD members, the dekulakized, deportees, and labor armyists.
The Museum of Gulag history
Digital project
Kazakhstan
Siberia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Baltics
Ukraine
Soviet bloc
repatriation
foreign relations
diplomacy
Polish-Soviet relations
Integrated digital archival information system of Poland, containing digital copies of materials from various Polish archives. You can find many materials related to the Soviet Union and Polish-Soviet relations on this site.
The National Digital Archives of Poland
Digital archive
Polish
Poland
Eastern Europe
Книжкові пам’ятки України (Book Monuments of Ukraine)
history
book
science
press
printing
Cossack
nationalities
political institution
language
Revolution
Taras Shevchenko
linguistics
Digital project developed by the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise, presenting digital copies of rare publications from/on Ukraine.
The National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise
Ukrainian
Galicia
Volhynia
Saint-Petersburg
Електронної бібліотеки «Культура України» (Digital Library "Culture of Ukraine")
architecture
Ukrainian modernism
dance
choreography
circus
material culture
ethnography
local study
Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Wise focusing on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Here users can find publications from different periods on Ukrainian cultural topics.
Digital library
The Revolutions of 1989: New Documents from Soviet/East Europe Archives Reveal Why There Was No Crackdown (The Revolutions of 1989: New Documents from Soviet/East Europe Archives Reveal Why There Was No Crackdown)
Communist Party
fall of the Berlin Wall
fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
The National Security Archive
Access through The National Security Archive
1989
Bush and Gorbachev at Malta: Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later (Bush and Gorbachev at Malta: Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later)
Cold War
Gorbachev
Malta summit
Soviet-US relations
Access through The National Security Archive [Legacy Site]
Did Nato Win the Cold War? Documentary supplement to the article "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall," by Vojtech Mastny, Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May-June 1999): 176-89
NATO
The New York Public Library Digital Collections
weapon
military
cartography
Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
The New York Public Library
Архив Газеты "Культура" (The Newspaper "Kul'tura" Archive)
Digital archive of the newspaper "Sovetskaia kul'tura".
The Newspaper "Kul'tura"
Мы из Биробиджана (фотографии 1930-х гг.) (We Are from Birobidzhan (photographs of the 1930s))
Birobidzhan
Jewish
Photographs of Birobidzhan in the 1930s.
The Russian Ethnographic Museum
Виртуальные выставки Российского государственного архива военно-морского флота (Virtual Exhibitions of the Russian State Archive of the Naval Fleet)
Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet
navy
Russian Revolution
defence
Topics include the building of the Russian navy, the Russian Civil War, the Baltic Fleet, etc.
The Russian State Archive of the Naval Fleet
中国第二历史档案馆档案查询 (Archive Search of the Second Historical Archives of China)
Sino-Soviet relations
foreign policy
trade
Digital archive of the Second Historical Archives of China, currently containing digital copies of the documents of the Beiyang government and the digital catalog of documents from the Ministry of Education of the Guomindang government. A few documents are related to Soviet Russia and are available online. More items will likely be added to the digital archive in the future.
The Second Historical Archives of China
Chinese
China
Manchuria
Das Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv (The Stasi Records Archive)
Stasi
intelligence
security service
Soviet-East Germany relations
The former East German State Security (Stasi) Archive. Thousands of documents and items are available online now, many of which are related to Soviet-East German relations.
The Stasi Records Archive
German
Germany
中苏联合抗击法西斯胜利70周年档案展 (Historical-Documentary Exhibition on the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of China and the Soviet Union in Collective Struggle Against Fascism)
World War Ⅱ
Sino-Japanese War
Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
The State Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Japan
Библиотечные и архивные ресурсы Государственной Думы (Library and Archival Resources of the State Duma of Russia)
law
legislation
legal studies
scholarship
legal source
The digital library of the Parliamentary Library of Russia, containing documents and publications of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, including published official laws, meeting records, published law collections, and works of legal studies. Many digital copies are available online.
The State Duma of Russia
Trotsky, Leon,
Communism
Soviet Union
Biography.
The Times
Check access on WorldCat
American Association for International Conciliation
1920
Выставки Тверской центра документации новейшей истории (Exhibitions of the Tver Center for Documentation of Contemporary History)
World War Ⅰ
Komsomol
archive
Party organization
Constitution
partisan
guerilla warfare
The Tver Center for Documentation of Contemporary History
Tver Oblast
Kalinin Oblast
Internet-проекты Тверской центра документации новейшей истории (Online Projects of the Tver Center for Documentation of Contemporary History)
nazi
Fascism
Online projects based on archival documents from the Tver Center for Documentation of Contemporary History.
Ukrainian diaspora
ideology
philosophy
religion
economy
The digital archive and library of the Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London), an information bureau established in London during the 1970s as the successor of the Ukrainian Publishers. It contains archival fonds related to the OUN and collections of books, periodicals, and other types of materials primarily published by the Ukrainian diaspora.
The Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London)
English
Canada
Access through The Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London)
Документы Организации Объединенных Наций (Documents of the United Nations)
international relations
arms race
disarmament
human rights
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital archive of United Nations documents, where one can find many historical files related to the Soviet Union.
The United Nations
Arabic
French
Spanish
United Nations
Access through United Nations
Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art
youth
children
education
technology
Digital collection of Soviet children's books and posters on various themes.
The University of Chicago Library
Windows on War: Soviet Posters, 1943-1945
The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
The University of Nottingham
mining
collectivization
agriculture
consumer protection
criminal law
women
health
hygiene
medicine
family
civil defence
Digital collection of Soviet pamphlets on different topics.
The University of Texas at Austin Library
censorship
migration
The Wende Museum is an art museum and historical archive dedicated to the Cold War. Its online collections consist of artworks, artifacts, documents, films, and historical witness interviews related to the subject.
The Wende Museum
Albanian
Hungarian
Romanian
Albania
East Germany
Hungary
Romania
USA
The Writer's Union of the USSR
Access through HOLLIS
Foreign Languages Publishing House
Digital Repository of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
bibliography
The digital repository of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences contains digitized materials from the holdings of the Library (cultural heritage and scholarly sources, old books and periodicals, manuscripts, old postcards, drawings, photographs, etc.) and digital publications by the Library (bibliographies, catalogs, scholarly articles, publications published on various occasions, etc.).
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Lithuanian
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
This encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. It provides access to various historical materials related to Soviet Jews.
Yiddish
Glasnost
Perestroika
society
late socialism
collapse of the USSR
An online exhibit of digitized Soviet and Russian newspaper editions from the 1980s through the 1990s that illuminate the transformation of Russian society in that period.
Thomas C. Wolfe
Thorez, Paul
Journeys
Vsesoiuznaia pionerskaia organizatsiia im. V. I. Lenina
Children
Biography
Vsesoiuznyi pionerskii lager “Artek” im. V.I. Lenina (Ukraine)
Description and travel
Autonomedia
1991