Great Patriotic War
A digital project on the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, containing photographs and audio and video recordings.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
Link to the Resource
Online exhibition
Russian
Russia
Ukraine
Belarus
Latvia
Lithuania
Far East
Abakan
Austria
Kazakhstan
Amur Oblast
Armenia
Arkhangelsk
Astrakhan
Azerbaijan
Barnaul
Bashkir
Belgorod
Belgrad
Belozersk
Germany
Slovakia
Bryansk
Hungary
Romania
Volgograd
Donbas
Don
Iran
Kazan
Kyiv
Kyrgyzstan
China
Korea
Krasnodar
Krasnoyarsk
Crimea
Kursk
Leningrad
Manchuria
Lviv
Minsk
Moldova
Mongolia
Moscow
Murmansk
Novgorod
Novorossiisk
Novosibirsk
Norway
Odessa
Omsk
France
Czechoslovakia
Piatigorsk
Rostov
Ryazan
Saratov
Sakhalin
Sevastopol
Semipalatinsk
Siberia
Smolensk
Central Asia
Stalingrad
Estonia
Tambov
Georgia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Udmurt Republic
Ulan-Ude
Ural
Ufa
Finland
Fergana
Khabarovsk
Harbin
Kharkiv
Chelyabinsk
Chuvash ASSR
Yugoslavia
Yalta
Yaroslavl
Виртуальные выставки Российского государственного архива кинофотодокументов (Online exhibitions of Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents)
Irina Venzher
Japan
Greece
football
Red Army
Alexander II
Nikolai II
Yevgeny Khaldei
Yuri Gagarin
Online exhibitions of the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, including many photograph collections covering different topics, ranging from the building of the Soviet Red Army, Great Patriotic War, and USSR's foreign relations, to everyday life in the USSR.
USSR
humor
Krokodil
culture
press
Digital archive of the satirical journal "Krokodil".
Digital archive
100-летие начала гражданской войны (100th Anniversary of the Start of the Russian Civil War)
Russian Civil War
propaganda
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Digital collection
Документы об отречении императора Николая ІІ и образовании Временного правительства. 2-3 марта 1917 г. (Documents about the Abdication of Nicholas II and the Creation of the Provision Government. 2-3 March 1917.)
Provisional Government
February Revolution
Several transcribed documents about the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of the Provision Government.
Faculty of History of Moscow State University
1917
Открытый архив (Open Archive. Three-volume Reference Book on Published Historical Documents)
Three-volume bibliography of historical documents published in Russia/the USSR over the 20th century, published by Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishers (ROSSPEN).
I.A. Kondakova
Link to Volume 1
Link to Volume 2
Link to Volume 3
Bibliography
Sergei Dovlatov
literature
journalism
intellectual
literature & arts
Website dedicated to Sergei Dovlatov, where you can find digitized texts of his works, photographs, drawings, and memoirs on the writer.
Aleksandr Daniliuk
Digital project
"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalogue of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
Jewish
nationalities
everyday life
"The photographs in People of a Thousand Towns constitute a visual record of thousands of pre-World War II Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. They span the late 19th century to the early 1940s and document the lives of large Jewish centers as well as many smaller towns and villages."
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
English
Eastern Europe
С. А. Есенин [письма] (S. A. Yesenin [Letters])
Sergei Yesenin
poetry
personal narrative
Digital archive of Sergei Yesenin's personal correspondence.
www.esenin.ru
politics
local administration
Digital editions of the newspaper "Oparinskaia iskra" from 1941 to 1953.
Kollektsionerus
Kirov Oblast
"Час мужества пробил на наших часах..." Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945 гг. в произведениях изобразительного искусства ("The Hour of Courage has Struck on our Clocks..." The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 in Works of Art)
art
Online exhibition of artwork dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Vologda Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Электронный архив работ художника Соломона Телингатера (The electronic Archive of the Works of Artist Solomon Telingater)
Solomon Telingater
graphic design
Digital archive of works of Solomon Telingater, a famous Soviet graphic artist.
Vladimir Telingater (published by Togda)
Published Samizdat Sound Recordings, Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda)
Radio Liberty
international relations
broadcast
Cold War
ideology
The collection contains 58 unique audio files that were produced and/or broadcast by RFE/RL’s Russian Service.
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU)
German
Latvian
Lithuanian
Europe
USA
Israel
Воспоминания, очерки: Электронная библиотека сайта "История и культурное наследие Еврейской автономной области" (Memoirs, Articles: Electronic Library of the Site "History and Cultural Heritage of The Jewish Autonomous Oblast")
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Birobidzhan
Birobidzhaner Shtern
Memoirs about the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the city of Birobidzhan.
Valerii Solomonovich Gurevich et al.
Digital library
Политика раскрестьянивания в Сибири (The Politics of Depeasantization in Siberia)
dekulakization
agriculture
political repression
Digital version of a 3-volume document collection on dekulakization in Siberia, published by the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast.
V. A. Il'inykh
O. K. Kavtsevich
Digital document collection
Novosibirsk Oblast
Lawrence Monthey
education
In the spring of 1959, UW alumni and staff member Lawrence G. "Larry" Monthey joined a tour of the Soviet Union and other European countries. This photo collection documents his trip.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
1959
cartography
Stalinabad
Tashkent
Extensive collection of digitized historical and CIA maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Library of the University of Texas at Austin, including maps of Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library
Baltics
memoir
children
nationalism
national identity
Digital archive of the Oxford Russian Life History Project, providing access to transcripts and audio recordings of the project's oral history interviews.
University of Oxford
La contemporaine: Bibliothèque, archives, musée des mondes contemporains (La Contemporaine: Library, Archive, Museum of Contemporary Worlds)
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russo-Polish war (1919-1921)
Lenin
This digital library provides access to more than 150,000 documents digitized by La Contemporaine: printed matter and archival material, drawings, paintings, photographs, posters, and objects, allowing you to delve into the sources of 20th-century history.
Université Paris Nanterre
Hauts-de-Seine conseil général
Ukrainian
International relations
U.S.-Soviet relations
United States
Ebook editions of a growing number of volumes from the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series.
U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian
The "Great Debate": Documents of the Sino-Soviet Split
Sino-Soviet relations
Sino-Soviet split
foreign relations
foreign policy
Selected Chinese, Soviet, and English-language press content that reflects the Sino-Soviet ideological debate in the 1950s and 1960s. All materials presented on the website are in English.
Marxists Internet Archive
Selected Chinese and Soviet press content and archival documents that reflect the Sino-Soviet ideological debate in the 1950s and 1960s. All materials presented on the website are in Chinese.
Chinese
youth
crime
economy
mining
collectivization
consumer protection
religion
criminal law
women
health
hygiene
medicine
family
civil defence
Digital collection of Soviet pamphlets on different topics.
The University of Texas at Austin Library
Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art
Communism
military
technology
science
Digital collection of Soviet children's books and posters on various themes.
The University of Chicago Library
Театральная периодика (Theatrical Periodicals)
theater
dramaturgy
Digital editions of several Petersburg theatrical journals from the imperial period to the early Soviet years.
St. Petersburg State Theater Library
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
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
Каталог. Наука в СССР в годы Великой Отечественной Войны (Catalog. Scholarship in the USSR in the Years of the Great Patriotic War)
scholarship
academia
social sciences
humanities
mathematics
chemistry
biology
physics
geology
geography
history
economics
law
linguistics
philology
natural science
legal source
Digital collection of Soviet scholarship produced during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian Academy of Sciences
Архив Газеты "Культура" (The Newspaper "Kul'tura" Archive)
Digital archive of the newspaper "Sovetskaia kul'tura".
The Newspaper "Kul'tura"
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
This documentary supplement to the article, "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall," has been prepared on the occasion of the Washington summit marking the 50th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is intended to provide the reader with the most important sources referred to in the text of the article that are relevant to the view of NATO "from the other side."
National Security Archive, George Washington University
Bush and Gorbachev at Malta: Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later
Gorbachev
Malta summit
The documents include the most complete transcript of the Malta summit ever published – excerpted from the forthcoming book, "Masterpieces of History": The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989 (edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok for the Central European University Press). The transcript is a translation of the Soviet record from the Gorbachev Foundation, since the U.S. memcons remain, astonishingly, still classified at the George H.W. Bush Library in Texas.
1989
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
Verbatim transcripts of such historic meetings as the Polish Communist party’s leadership on the day after Solidarity swept the June 1989 elections, Solidarity leader Walesa’s talk in Warsaw with German chancellor Kohl on the day the Berlin Wall was to fall, Soviet leader Gorbachev’s meetings with Hungarian communist reformers, and the Czechoslovak Communist Party’s central committee’s rationale for not calling in the troops in the face of mass protests in November 1989.
Poland
Наследие Марины Цветаевой [письма] (The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva [Letters])
Marina Tsvetaeva
Silver Age poets
Archive of personal correspondence of Marina Tsvetaeva.
The Legacy of Marina Tsvetaeva
Смена--архив номеров (Smena–Archive of Issues)
society
Digital archive of the Soviet literary journal "Smena".
The "Smena" Magazine
Творчество фронтового поколение (Art of the Frontline Generation)
memory
Document collection dedicated to Soviet artwork during the Great Patriotic War, published by the State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast.
T. N. Gutyra
Iu. G. Martynova
Документы отделения Государственной публичной научно-техническая библиотека Сибирского отделения Российской Академии наук (Documents of the Division of the State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
archive
academics
Historical materials on the history of the Novosibirsk Division of the Russian State Public Scientific-Technical Library.
State Public Scientific-Technical Library of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Материалы по истории Академгородка (Materials on the History of the Academy-Town)
Academy of Sciences
Akademgorodok
Historical materials on the history of Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk.
韓戰俄檔案館的解密文件 (Declassified Russian Archival Documents on the Korean War)
Korean 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.
Institute of Modern History, Academia SINICA
North Korea
South Korea
Виртуальные выставки ГПИБ [Государственная публичная историческая библиотека России] (Virtual Exhibitions of the State Public Historical Library of Russia)
Victory Day
bibliography
photography
White Army
painting
Revolution
Bashkortostan
war correspondents
All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
World War I
popular culture
food
Battle of Stalingrad
advertising
consumer culture
A number of virtual exhibitions books, archival documents, periodical editions, posters, and other types of materials from the State Public Historical Library of Russia on various historical topics.
State Public Historical Library of Russia
Виртуальные выставки архива Кузбасса (Virtual Exhibitions of the State Archive of Kuzbass )
Kemerovo Oblast
Prokopiev
census
Mikhail Podgorbunskii
komsomol
Ivan Bardin
Tashtagol
sport
cinema
Mikhail Nebogatov
coal
Aleksei Leonov
Vera Voloshina
energetics
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Kemerovo Oblast. Topics include nationalities, local intellectuals, scientific and cultural development, etc.
State Archives of Kemerovo Oblast
Выставки Государственного архива Вологодской области (ГАВО) (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Vologda Oblast)
evacuation
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Vologda Oblast. Topics include the Great Patriotic War, education, local cultural life, etc.
State Archive of Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast
Виртуальные выставки Государственного архива Волгоградской области (Virtual Exhibits of the State Archive of Volgograd Oblast)
ostarbeiter
State Agricultural University
Sanitary-Epidemiological Service
social services
Volgograd Aluminum Factory
May 1
War Commissariat
recreation
television
Aleksei Maresiev
circus
Volzhskii
Ilovlinskii District
Frolovskii District
Gorodishchenskii District
Alekseevskii District
Open Joint Stock Company Production Association "Barricades"
Anti-plague Service
tram
Viktor Tomarev
doctor
Andrei Vodovozov
finance
transportation
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of the Volgograd Oblast, covering a variety of topics in Soviet history.
State Archive of Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast
Комплекс архивных документов и материалов, посвященных Второй мировой войне (Complex of Archival Documents and Materials Dedicated to the Second World War)
This website contains a variety of resources; of particular interest are the categories "sborniki dokumentov" and "trudovaia doblest' v voiennoie vremia."
Выставки Государственного архива Владимирской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Vladimir Oblast)
home front
Procuracy
justice
state
urban history
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Vladimir Oblast. Topics include two World Wars, Russian Revolution, local intellectuals, etc.
State Archive of Vladimir Oblast
Vladimir Oblast
Заключенные на стройках коммунизма. ГУЛАГ и объекты энергетики в СССР. (Prisoners at the Building Sites of Communism: The Gulag and Energy Facilities in the USSR)
Gulag
energy industry
Document collection dedicated to Gulag prisoners who built Soviet energy facilities.
State Archive of the Russian Federation
Журналы заседаний Особого совещания при Главнокомандующем Вооруженными Силами на Юге России А.И. Деникине (Transcripts of the Meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin)
Anton Denikin
Transcripts of the meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin
Журналы заседаний, стенографические отчеты и материалы Совета Министров Российского правительства А. В. Колчака (Transcripts of Meetings, Reports, and Materials of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Government of A. V. Kolchak)
Alexander Kolchak
СВАГ и религиозные конфессии Советской зоны оккупации Германии, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration in Germany and Religious Confessions of the Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949)
Soviet Military Administration of Germany
occupation of Germany
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection
East Germany
Деятельность Управления СВАГ по изучению достижений немецкой науки и техники в Советской зоне оккупации Германии, 1945-1949 (The Activity of the Leadership of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany in Studying the Achievements of German Science and Technology in the Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949)
СВАГ и немецкие органы самоуправления, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration of Germany and German Organs of Self-Government, 1945-1949)
German self-government
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection.
Электронные издания БУ "Государственный архив современной истории Чувашской Республики" (Electronic Publications of the State Archive of the Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic)
Chuvash
Ilia Prokopiev
Aleksandr Terentiev
Cheboksary
great Patriotic War
Online exhibitions and digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic.
State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvash Republic