Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
education
media
science
culture
popular science
film
cinema
astronautics
aviation
military
Great Patriotic War
documentary
history
art
political leader
medicine
health
travel
nature
industry
politics
scholarship
sport
transportation
literature & arts
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
Link to the Resource
VK group
Social media
Russian
USSR
global
Цифровая история (Digital history) VK Group
Russian Civil War
Stalinism
Cold War
Russian Revolution
Red Army
foreign relations
foreign policy
Stalin
Khrushchev
The VK page of a digital scholarly-educational project of the same name, dedicated to Russian and Soviet history, as well as world history. On the VK wall the project team shares various kinds of primary source materials on Soviet history.
Советский альманах (Soviet almanac) VK Group
music
radio
leisure
children
propaganda
everyday life
television
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
Буряадай уран зохёолой юртэмсэ/Литературный мир Бурятии (Literary world of Buryatia) VK Group
literature
intellectual
theater
folklore
nationalities
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Buryat national literature, art, and culture in general. The group shares digitized works of Buryat writers and artists, and their biographic information.
Mongolian
Buryat
Buryatia
Russia
Советская Бурятия (Soviet Buryatia) VK Group
local history
national culture
urban history
ethnography
infrastructure
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
Хранилище. Историческая литература. Книги. (Repository. Historical literature. Books) VK Group
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
political institution
religion
general
World War Ⅱ
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both secondary literature and primary source materials on a variety of historical questions. You can find thousands of digitized Soviet books and document collections in this group.
«Еврейские герои» (Jewish heroes) Telegram Channel
Jewish
anti-Semitism
political repression
dissident
"Jewish Heroes" is a project that shares information about Jewish people who struggled against the Soviet regime. The project's Telegram channel shares original archival materials about these Jewish people.
Telegram channel
A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
Facebook page
English
Из газетного архива (и других архивов) (From the newspaper archive and other archives) Facebook Group
press
A Facebook group where members share clippings from Soviet newspapers and other types of publications. Sometimes group members also share archival documents on various topics.
Gulag
Great Terror
memory
Facebook page of Sergey Prudovskiy, a Russian historian and a former staff member of International Memorial. He is the administrator of a Facebook group "Remembering the GULAG" and often posts images of Soviet archival documents on Soviet political repressions.
agriculture
culinary art
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized books and other types of materials on a variety of topics, ranging from history and culture to housework and fitness. Among the shared materials many were published during the Soviet era.
Клуб левых историков и обществоведов (Club of Left Historians and Social Scientists) VK Group
Lenin
Leninism
Communism
Party organization
A VK (V Kontakte) group that often shares primary source materials (mostly archival documents) on Lenin and Leninism, as well as secondary literature on Soviet political history.
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
book
printing
technology
police
Digital project that provides open access to about 1000 digitized Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
Digital project
Digital collection
Ukrainian
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Central Asia
avant-garde
Mayakovsky
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).
socialist realism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
Гостелерадиофонд (Gosteleradiofond) VK Group
late socialism
cartoon
The official VK page of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs, where you can find numerous video and audio materials of the Soviet era.
Gosteleradiofond
СОВЕТСКИЙ ЭКРАН (Soviet Screen) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
Larisa Kravchenko
Книги - скачать, советы, литература (Books - download, suggestions, literature) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digital copies of a great variety of books, including a large number of Soviet books.
agitation
caricature
satire
humor
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares historical agitational materials (mostly Soviet), including advertisements, posters, caricatures, and other types of materials.
Polish
German
Uzbek
other
СТУДЕНТ-ИСТОРИК (Student-Historian) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group created by the students of the history department of Moscow State University. The group shares materials, both primary sources and secondary literature, for studying various subjects, including Soviet history.
Культурная Антропология и Этнография (Cultural anthropology and ethnography) VK Group
anthropology
ethnicity
ethnic studies
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares academic information and resources about cultural anthropology and ethnography in Russia. The group often shares digitized copies of Soviet academic publications on the subject.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and contemporary Russian paintings.
diplomacy
Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
Психоделия по-советски (Soviet Psychedelia) VK Group
psychedelia
underground art
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet psychedelic artwork, including paintings, cartoons, caricatures, posters, etc.
Советская и постсоветская музыка (Soviet and Post-Soviet music) VK Group
youth
rock music
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.
Рок - группы СССР (Rock groups of the USSR)
A website dedicated to Soviet rock music, where you can search Soviet rock bands, listen to their music, and watch old video recordings.
Раритеты Советского Периода (Rarities of the Soviet Period) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares rare video and audio recordings of Soviet rock music.
Кладовая. Книги. История. (Repository. Books. History.) VK Group
paganism
cartography
architecture
geography
language
archaeology
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.
French
Tatarstan
Belarus
USA
Africa
fairy tale
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet textbooks, children's books, and other types of Soviet educational materials.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares clippings from the Soviet satirical magazine, Krokodil.
Советские детские книги и учебники СССР (Soviet children's books and textbooks) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet children's books and textbooks, as well as children's journals and film strips.
Uyghur
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Turkmen
Tajik
law
turkology
Oriental Studies
nationalism
Islam
legal source
Historian Sergey Abashin's academic page on academia.edu, where he has uploaded thousands of Soviet academic publications, including monographs and articles, mostly on Central Eurasia, ethnicities, ethnography and anthropology.
Other social media
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Xinjiang
China
Занимательная литература (Intriguing literature) VK Group
natural science
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares various Soviet and contemporary Russian popular science publications, textbooks, and other types of books.
Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) VK Group
school
literacy
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet textbooks cataloged by grades and disciplines.
poetry
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books, many of which are Soviet publications of various types.
РЕДКИЕ и ЦЕННЫЕ КНИГИ И МАТЕРИАЛЫ (Rare and Precious Books and Materials) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.
Мультфильмы Чехословакии и Польши (Czechoslovak and Polish Cartoons)
animation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares cartoons produced in communist Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other Eastern European countries. Videos shared here are mostly dubbed in Russian.
Czech
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
Советские фильмы - старые, добрые, лучшие! (Soviet films - old, kind, and the best!) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).
A website dedicated to Soviet films, where users can watch Soviet movies and cartoons online, listen to radio plays and music from films, and browse relevant posters and photographs.
Советские мультфильмы (Soviet cartoons) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
Дорогие товарищи. Архивные фото Сыктывкара (Dear comrades. Archival photos of Syktyvkar) VK group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
Komi Republic
Syktyvkar
Советские ПСИХОДЕЛИЧЕСКИЕ мультики (Soviet PSYCHEDELIC cartoons) VK Group
surrealism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
?-1991
Карикатуры СССР. Сатира и юмор. Советское ТВ (Caricature of the USSR. Satire and humor. Soviet TV) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet caricatures, clippings from satirIcal magazines of the USSR, and Soviet cartoons.
Soviet grooves - funk, soul, jazz, easy VK Group
funk
jazz
disco
soul music
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet funk, soul, jazz, and disco.
A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.
Сталинский букварь (Stalinist primer) VK Group
The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.
Dmitrii Frontov
ГАЛЕРЕЯ СОВЕТСКИХ ШКОЛЬНЫХ УЧЕБНИКОВ (1930-1989 годов) (Gallery of Soviet School Textbooks, 1930-1989)
Digital project that presents numerous digitized Soviet school textbooks.
Библиотека по марксизму (Library on Marxism) VK Group
Marxism
ideology
economy
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library of Russian-language publications on Marxism and relevant subjects. Here one can find numerous digitized Soviet publications on Marxism and relevant social-political and economic issues.
Марксистская литература на языках народов СССР (Marxist literature in the languages of peoples of the USSR) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet Marxist literature in different languages of Soviet nationalities.
Kalmyk
Chuvash
Moldovan
Belarusian
Tatar
Armenian
Udmurt
Ossetian
Gypsy
Nanai
Koryak
Altaic
Yakut
Komi
Evenk
ТОРЖЕСТВУЮЩАЯ ПЛУТОКРАТИЯ (Trivious Plutocracy) VK Group
U.S.-Soviet relations
A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
Europe