The Years of Hunger
subject: famine
subject: hunger
subject: agriculture
subject: collectivization
subject: statistics
description: Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
creator: International Contact Group for research on on issues of historical political economy in former Soviet archives
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1931-1933
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Soviet Posters
subject: art
subject: propaganda
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: A small collection of Soviet posters.
creator: International Institute of Social History
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1938
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

История нашей страны: Киевская Русь -- Московское государство -- Российская империя -- СССР -- Россия (The History of Our Country: Kievan Rus' -- Muscovy -- The Russian Empire -- USSR -- Russia)
subject: Pokrovsky
subject: history
subject: almanac
subject: constitution of 1936
subject: CPSU
subject: church
subject: Nicholas II
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: religion
description: Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
creator: K. Kuzmin'skii
creator: Kol'tso Patrioticheskikh Resursov
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1990-2000
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Кольские карты. Карты ХХ века (Kola maps. Maps of the 20th Century)
subject: map
subject: geography
subject: geology
subject: economics
subject: urban history
description: Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
creator: Kola maps editorial board
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-2000
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Murmansk Oblast

Исторические сведения о кумыках (Historical Information about the Kumyks)
subject: Kumyks
subject: Caucasus
subject: Dagestan
subject: Turks
subject: nationalities
subject: local administration
description: A website dedicated to the Kumyk people, their history and culture. Some transcriptions of archival documents and historical photographs can be found in different sections of the website.
creator: Kumyk Scientific-Cultural Society
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: North Caucasus
coverage: Dagestan
coverage: Russia

Электронный архив открытого доступа НИУ "БелГУ" (Open-Access Repository of the Belgorod National Research University)
subject: science
subject: humanities
subject: social sciences
subject: education
subject: linguistics
subject: philology
subject: literature
subject: geography
subject: philosophy
subject: mathematics
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
creator: Belgorod National Research University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1780-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Belgorod
coverage: Russia

Материалы русской истории (Materials on Russian History )
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: personal narrative
description: A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1917
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Архив Магнитогорского Металла (The Archive of the Magnitogorskii Metall)
subject: Magnitogorsk
subject: metallurgy
subject: industry
subject: economics
subject: industrialization
subject: urban history
subject: local history
description: Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
creator: Magnitogorskii Metall: The Magnitogorsk City Newspaper
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1935-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Magnitogorsk

Unified Digital Archive of Osip Mandelstam
subject: culture
subject: poetry
subject: literature
subject: Osip Mandelstam
subject: intellectual
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: Archival documents, including author bio, letters, and official documents, related to Osip Mandelstam.
creator: Mandelshtam Center
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1905-1987
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Ежегодник «Общество и государство в Китае» (Yearbook "Society and State in China")
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: Oriental Studies
subject: Chinese Studies
subject: science
subject: social sciences
description: Annual publication of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1970. Digital copies of table of contents from 1980 are freely downloadable on this web page.
creator: Russian Academy of Sciences
creator: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1970-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR

Books of International Memorial (Books of International Memorial)
subject: Great Terror
subject: family
subject: deportation
subject: Ostarbeiter
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Volga German
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
subject: purge
description: Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1960
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Siberia

Фотоархив Мемориала (Memorial Photo Archive)
subject: human rights
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Terror
subject: political repression
subject: civil society
subject: dissident
subject: purge
description: Photograph collections of the International Memorial on Soviet political repressions and civil activism.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: /
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Диск Сталинских списков (Stalin Lists Disk)
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Terror
subject: political repression
subject: purge
subject: Stalin
description: Digitized lists of persons who were repressed under Stalin.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1937-1951
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Та сторона (The Other Side )
subject: Ostarbeiter
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: P.O.W.
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1939-1945
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Romania
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Poland
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Czechoslovakia

Хроника текущих событий (The Chronicle of Current Events)
subject: human rights
subject: Helsinki process
description: The Chronicle of Current Events is a type-written, informational bulletin of Soviet human rights activists, published from 1968 to 1983. This website provides online transcripts of the content of the bulletin.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1968-1982
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Проекты (Projects)
subject: Gulag
subject: oral history
subject: memory
subject: secret police
subject: NKVD
subject: GPU
subject: KGB
subject: Cheka
subject: purge
subject: personal narrative
description: A set of oral history and memory projects on Soviet political repression and terror.
creator: Memorial Museum "The Investigative Prison of the NKVD"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1960
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library
subject: Leon Trotsky
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: propaganda
subject: politics
subject: Hungary
subject: Yakov Sverdlov
subject: Red Army
subject: Communist international
subject: agriculture
subject: Lenin
description: Digital collection of audio recordings of Soviet politicians (mostly Lenin).
creator: Michigan State University
source: <a href="https://d.lib.msu.edu/islandora/search?collection_page=vvl&type=dismax&f%5B0%5D=RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%3Afedora/vvl%3Aroot%22%20OR%20RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%3Afedora/mscj%3Aroot%22%20OR%20RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%3Afedora/vbi%3Aroot%22%20OR%20RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms%3A%22info%3Afedora/wosl%3Aroot%22&f%5B1%5D=language%3A%22Russian%22&sort=date_key%20asc&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0">Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1922
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

1914-1918. Памяти героев Великой войны (1914-1918. In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War)
subject: World War Ⅰ
description: Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
creator: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-1918
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1377
title: Петроград, Ленинград в истории Красноярья в ХХ веке по материалам КГКУ "Государственный архив Красноярского края" (Petrograd, Leningrad in the History of Krasnoyarsk in the 20th Century in the Materials of KGKU "State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai")
subject: collectivization
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: industry
subject: economy
subject: industrialization
subject: political institution
description: Document collection dedicated to the relationship between Petrograd/Leningrad and the Krasnoyarsk region throughout the 20th century.
creator: Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
creator: V. P. Astafiev FBGOU VPO KGPU
creator: Archive Agency of Krasnoyarsk Krai
source: <a href="https://docviewer.yandex.ru/?tm=1658782451&tld=ru&lang=ru&name=2-sbornik-1.pdf&text=%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%2C+%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4+%D0%B2+%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%8C%D1%8F+%D0%B2+%D1%85%D1%85+%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B5+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC+%D0%BA%D0%B3%D0%BA%D1%83+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9+%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B2+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F&url=http%3A//xn----7sbbimrdkb3alvdfgd8eufwc.xn--p1ai/upload/files/2-sbornik-1.pdf&lr=102589&mime=pdf&l10n=ru&sign=ad3a3c441f5a16c3dec5098ac069f6f3&keyno=0">Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Krasnoyarsk Krai
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Russia

Цена кадра: каждый второй ранен; каждый третий убит (The Price of a Film Frame: Every Other Man is Wounded; Every Fourth Man is Killed)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Holocaust
subject: photographers
subject: culture
subject: cinema
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital project dedicated to the creators of Soviet front-line films during the Second World War. On this web page you can find archival documents, photographs, and video clips about Soviet front-line filmmaking.
creator: State Central Film Museum of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

Поиск экспонатов (Музей кино) (Museum of Cinema Digital Archive of Exhibit Objects)
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: Digitized photographs, posters, manuscripts, rare books, and other types of exhibits of the State Central Film Museum of Russia.
creator: State Central Film Museum of Russia
source: <a href="http://www.museikino.ru/funds/search/?sort=PROPERTY_YEAR&order=DESC&SECTION=13&arrFilter_custom_combo_field_year_from=1910&arrFilter_custom_combo_field_year_to=2000&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_2366072709=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_3596227959=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_1330857165=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_945058907=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_2788221432=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_3510096238=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_1212055764=Y&arrFilter_IBLOCK_SECTION_ID_1060745282=Y">Link to the Resource
date: 1913-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Коллекции - Музей Истории Евреев в России (Collections of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia)
subject: Jewish
subject: nationalities
subject: culture
subject: national culture
description: Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
creator: Museum of the History of the Jews in Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Hebrew
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Dagestan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Germany
coverage: Israel
coverage: Poland
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Romania
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Czech Republic
coverage: Slovakia
coverage: Azerbaijan

Андрей Иванович Шингарев (Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev )
subject: Kadets
subject: Duma
subject: Revolution
subject: Andrei Shingarev
subject: personal narrative
description: Website dedicated to Andrei Shingarev, one of the leaders of the Russian Constitutional Democratic party.
creator: Nadezhda Alekseieva Nechaieva
creator: Georgii Ivanovich Trubnikov
creator: Vladimir Vladimirovich Makarov
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1917
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Документы и статьи (Documents and Articles)
subject: Communist Party
subject: political institution
subject: partisan
subject: NKVD
description: Transcriptions of a set of archival documents on Soviet party organization and other issues.
creator: Nafthali Hirschkowitz et al.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1898-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Североамериканские финны в Советской Карелии в 1920‑1930‑е гг. (Northern American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1930s)
subject: migration
subject: economy
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: sport
description: Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1943
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: Finnish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Russia

Архивная мозаика культуры Карелии в интернете (The Archival Mosaic of Karelian Culture Online)
subject: art
subject: writing
subject: literature
subject: music
subject: culture
subject: politics
subject: statesmen
subject: Karelia
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of documents and materials on Karelian culture.
creator: National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: Finnish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Russia

Д.А.Кунаев. Официальный сайт (D.A. Kunaev. Official Site)
subject: political leader
subject: Dinmukhamed Kunaev
subject: local administration
description: 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.
creator: International Konaev Fund
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1912-1993
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Журнал «Коммунистический интернационал» (1919-1943) (Journal The Communist International (1919-1943))
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: political institution
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: ideology
description: Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
creator: National Electronic Library of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1919-1943
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Журнал "Современная архитектура" (1926-1930) (The Journal Contemporary Architecture (1926-1930))
subject: architecture
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
creator: National Electronic Library of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1926-1930
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

The Woodburn Collection
subject: propaganda
subject: Communism
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital collection of Soviet posters.
creator: National Library of Scotland
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1919-1930
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Windows on War: Soviet Posters, 1943-1945
subject: Great Patriotic War
description: The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
creator: The University of Nottingham
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1943-1945
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany

Rubrik Dokument des Monats (Document of the Month Section)
subject: German
subject: nationalities
description: A digital project, mostly for educational purposes, where a new primary document pertaining to the history of Germans in Russia is posted each month.
creator: Bavarian Cultural Center for Germans from Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: German
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Нюрнбергский процесс (Nuremberg Trials)
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Germany
description: Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1946
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany

Дети тылового Алтая (The Children of the Altai Home Front)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: children
description: Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
creator: O. N. Dudareva
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai
coverage: Russia

https://dccollection.share.library.harvard.edu/items/show/1398
title: Депортированные калмыки на Новосибирской земле: расселение и обустройство. Декабрь 1943-1946 гг. Сборник документов. (Deported Kalmyks on Novosibirsk Territory: Resettlement and Acclimatization. December 1943-1946. Document Collection)
subject: deportation
subject: resettlement
subject: nationalities
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Kalmyk
description: Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
creator: O. V. Vydrina and I. V. Samarin et al.
source: <a href="https://docviewer.yandex.ru/?tm=1658842897&tld=ru&lang=ru&name=kalmyki_arhiv_verstka_s_ispravlen.pdf&text=%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BB%D0%B5%3A+%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%B8+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE.+%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8C+1943-1946+%D0%B3%D0%B3.+%D0%A1%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA+%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2.&url=http%3A//archives.nso.ru/sites/archives.nso.ru/wodby_files/files/page_1306/kalmyki_arhiv_verstka_s_ispravlen.pdf&lr=102589&mime=pdf&l10n=ru&sign=3a0f19d6077e54ee6ad2005a921b334f&keyno=0">Link to the Resource
date: 1943-1946
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast
coverage: Russia

Советский период (The Soviet Period)
subject: Vladivostok
subject: Primorsky Krai
subject: culture
subject: tourism
subject: urban history
description: Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
creator: Old Vladivostok
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Vladivostok
coverage: Primorsky Krai

The Whisperers. Orlando Figes
subject: memory
subject: everyday life
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: family
subject: NKVD
subject: KGB
subject: secret police
subject: security service
subject: Gulag
subject: personal narrative
description: A memory project conducted among families from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Perm. In each family extensive interviews were carried out with the oldest relatives, who were able to explain the context of their family archives and relate them to the family history. This represents a unique collection of documents and testimony about private life in the Stalin period, reflecting the interior world of ordinary families and individuals.
creator: Orlando Figes
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Moscow
coverage: Saint-Petersburg
coverage: Perm

Archival Sources (Osmikon)
subject: Europe
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: international relations
subject: global
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: personal narrative
subject: New Economic Policy
description: This is a site linking to multiple digitized collections of resources that include Eastern European/Russian materials. Most of these collections are pan-European, and some of them are cited elsewhere in this guide.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: French
language: Czech
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Europe
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

1917 Russian Revolutions in Newspaper Reports
subject: Russian Revolution
description: Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917
format: Digital collection
language: French
language: German
language: English
language: Czech
language: Russian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: Europe
coverage: Russia

Eastern Europe, a "Simple" Explanation
subject: World War I
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: repression
subject: Communism
subject: Baltic Germans
subject: nationalities
subject: satire
subject: Jewish
subject: World War II
description: Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
creator: Osmikon
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1945
format: Digital collection
language: German
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Питирим Сорокин: избранная переписка (Pitirim Sorokin: selected correspondence)
subject: Pitirim Sorokin
subject: sociology
subject: scholarship
subject: intellectual
description: Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
creator: P. P. Krotov
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1968
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA

Documents on the Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Stalinism
subject: Lenin
subject: Constitution
subject: law
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: legal source
description: Collection of English translations of Soviet documents and leaders' speeches on the Russian Revolution, the establishment of the Bolshevik power, and Stalinism.
creator: Fordham University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1953
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Great Patriotic War
description: Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
creator: Iuridicheskaia literatura
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1946
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: USSR
coverage: UK
coverage: USA
coverage: France

Андрей Платонов [материалы] (Andrei Platonov [Material])
subject: Andrei Platonov
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: poetry
subject: intellectual
subject: literature & arts
description: Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
creator: Platonov group of IMLI RAN headed by Corresponding Member N. V. Korniienko
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1899-1951
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Central Asia

Библиотека [Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский] (Library [Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii])
subject: Felix Dzerzhinskii
subject: political leader
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Anastas Mikoian
subject: Stalin
description: Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1877-1926
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans)
subject: German
subject: nationalities
subject: deportation
subject: political repression
description: A module on the website of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education that contains information on the history of German-speaking populations in Russia (and the Soviet Union more broadly) during the 20th century. A section of this module contains primary source documents from the post-World War II Soviet Union that detail the efforts of Soviet German activists to advance the legal rehabilitation of Germans in the U.S.S.R.
creator: German Federal Agency for Civic Education
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1763-2022
format: Digital collection
language: German
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Volga German ASSR

Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen (History of the Volga Germans)
subject: German
subject: nationalities
subject: political institution
subject: local administration
subject: Volga German
subject: nationalities policy
description: A site created by Russian enthusiast of Volga German history Alexander Spak containing detailed information on the history of Volga German settlements until 1941, when the mass deportation of Soviet Germans to Siberia and Central Asia began amid the Nazi German invasion of the U.S.S.R., and on the fate of Germans thereafter. The site contains Soviet books about the Volga German ASSR, official documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
creator: Aleksandr Shpak
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1862-1997
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: German
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Volga German ASSR

Russian Film Hub
subject: film
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: youth
subject: propaganda
subject: education
subject: Communism
subject: literature & arts
description: A site collecting Soviet and Russian films. This site links to numerous free sites with Russian/Soviet films that can be watched online, sometimes with subtitles in English and a variety of other global languages.
creator: Richard Wess
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-2000
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: English
language: German
language: Japanese
language: French
language: Arabic
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Публикации о творчестве А. Н. Пахмутова в интернете (Publications about A. N. Pakhmutova on the internet)
subject: music
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: intellectual
subject: Aleksandra Pakhmutova
subject: literature & arts
description: Selected Soviet-era publications dedicated to Aleksandra Pakhmutova, a Soviet and Russian composer.
creator: Roman Sinel'nikov
creator: Aleksei Charykov
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1929-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов (The Events in the Semirechye in the Year 1916 in the Documents of Russian Archives)
subject: Turkestan Revolt
subject: Semirechye Revolt
subject: personal narrative
description: Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
creator: Rosarchiv
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1916
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Semirechye
coverage: Turkestan