蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
Sino-Soviet relations
foreign relations
diplomacy
foreign policy
everyday life
Chinese migrants
personal narrative
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
English
Chinese
China
Russia
Рождение края. Деятельность Оргкомитета ВЦИК по Алтайскому краю. 1937-1939. (Сборник документов) (The Birth of a Region. The Activity of the Organizing Committee of the VTsIK of the Altai Krai. 1937-1939. (Document Collection).)
state
Altai Region
Organizing Committee of the VTsIK
Online document collection on the activities of the Organizing Committee of the VTsIK of Altai Krai, 1937-1939.
State Archive of Altai Krai
Digital document collection
Russian
Altai Krai
Алтайский округ в Первой мировой войне (Altai okrug in the First World War)
World War Ⅰ
Online exhibition of archival documents on the Altai region during the first World War.
Сибирская трагедия, к 100-летию начала гражданской войны (A Siberian Tragedy: The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Civil War)
Russian Civil War
Siberia
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Online exhibition
Novosibirsk Oblast
Советский Союз: взлет сверхдержавы (The Soviet Union: The Rise of a Superpower)
Treaty of Rapallo
Soviet constitution
statehood
nationalities
show trial
Congress of Soviets
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
propaganda
art
culture
industrialization
Gulag
letter
Stalin
literature & arts
A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may be found from more reputable sources.
Digital project
USSR
Europe
music
socialist realism
A private database of socialist realist music and popular music related to ideology and patriotism. The section "rechi" (bottom left in white) includes some audio recordings of speeches by Soviet leaders.
Дневник Романа Васильевича Ушакова, 1908 года рождения (The Diary of Roman Vasil'evich Ushakov, born in 1908)
deportation
dekulakization
depeasantization
Diary entries of a deported Kurgan peasant from 1932.
South Urals Association of Amateur Genealogists in the city of Chelyabinsk
1932
"Охматмлад" и "Дети республики." Идеология и практика социальной политики в Енисейской губернии в 1920-е гг. ("Okhmatmlad" and "Deti Respubliki." Ideology and Practice of Social Policies in Yeniseysk Guberniia in the 1920s. )
children
motherhood
family
parenthood
social policies
childcare
ideology
Document collection on early Soviet social policies on children, motherhood, and family from 1920 to 1930.
Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Литература [махно.ru] (Literature [makhno.ru])
Nestor Makhno
Green Army
peasantry
Digital collection of Nestor Makhn's works, including his memoirs, articles, and studies on him.
Sergei Shvedov et al.
Ukraine
Подполковник Морозов Д. А. Воспоминания участника обороны и разгрома немцев в Советском Заполярье (октябрь 1944 года). Мурманск-Петрозаводск. 5 июля 1963 года. (Lieutenant Colonel Morozov D.A. Recollections of a participant in the Defense and Defeat of the Germans in the Soviet Arctic (October 1944). Murmansk-Petrozavodsk. July 5, 1963.)
Soviet Arctic
Great Patriotic War
Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel Morozov D.A. on the defense and defeat of the Germans in the Soviet Arctic in October 1944.
Sergei Mikhailovich Semienov
1944
Arctic
Murmansk
中国第二历史档案馆档案查询 (Archive Search of the Second Historical Archives of China)
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
Digital archive
Manchuria
Газетные старости: обзор русских газет начала ХХ века... В этот день, но 100 лет тому назад... (Old Newspaper: An Overview of Russian Newspapers of the Beginning of the XX Century... This Day, but 100 Years Ago...)
Russian Revolution
press
economy
general
politics
Selections of Russian newspaper clippings on various issues in the early 20th century.
Sergei Danilovich Sokurenko
Виртуальные выставки Научной библиотеки Томского государственного университета (Virtual exhibitions of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University)
intellectual
education
Online exhibitions of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University, some of which are dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Scientific Library of Tomsk State University
Tomsk Oblast
political institution
Digital archive of the Russian newspaper "Sibirskaia zhizn'" from 1894 to 1919.
За науку в Сибири Архив (For Science in Siberia Archive)
science
technology
scholarship
Digital archive of the Soviet newspaper "Za nauku v Sibiri"
Science in Siberia: Publisher of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Власть и интеллигенция в сибирской провинции: Сборник документов (Power and the Intelligentsia in a Siberian Province: Document Collection)
intelligentsia
political repression
modernization
PDF version of a 4-volume document collection on intelligentsia in Soviet Siberia.
State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Выставки Российского государственного военного архива (Exhibits of the Russian State Military Archive)
military
Felix Dzerzhinskii
Red Army
international relations
Soviet-Japanese relations
Far East
Mongol People's Republic
Empire of Manchuria
citizens' militia
Vasilii Chapaev
sport
Cheka
Online exhibitions of the Russian State Military Archive.
Russian State Military Archive
Asia
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
Germany
Участвуем в святом деле спасения Родины. Власть, церковь, казачество в годы Великой Отечественной Войны. (Participate in the Sacred Duty of Saving the Motherland. State, church, and Cossacks in the years of the Great Patriotic War)
religion
church
Cossack
Document collection on the role of Russian Orthodox Church and Cossacks in the Great Patriotic War.
Russian State Archive of Socio-political History
В штабах Победы: К 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне (In the Headquarters of Victory: The 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War)
Documentary film on the Great Patriotic War, in which Russian archival documents are presented.
Австрия. Цена освобождения (Austria: The Cost of Liberation)
liberation of Austria
Documentary film on the liberation of Austria in the Second World War, in which Russian archival documents are presented.
1945
German
political leader
personal cult
Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
1953
Памятные даты российской экономики (Important Dates in the History of the Russian Economy )
Commissariat of Internal and Foreign Trade
Commissariat of Water Transport
Committee of Forestry
Surveys
Cartography
Commissariat of Rubber Production
Geology
Chemistry
Metallurgy
Ministry of Auto and Tractor Production
State Scientific-Economic Counsel
Engineering
Counsel for Economic Mutual Aid
aviation
invention
environment
railroad
Document exhibition on significant milestones in Soviet and Russian economic life.
Russian State Archive of Economy
Восстановление экономики Крыма. 1944-1950 гг. Документы из фондов РГАЭ (Rebuilding the Crimean Economy, 1944-1950. Documents of the Russian State Archive of Economy)
occupation
industry
electrical industry
infrastructure
agriculture
recreation
transportation
Document exhibition on the postwar economic recovery of Crimea.
Crimea
Голоса выдающихся советских военачальников Великой Отечественной войны (The Voices of Prominent Soviet Military Leaders of the Great Patriotic War)
military leaders
Collection of audio recordings from prominent Soviet military officers.
Russian State Archive of Audio Documents
Здравствуй, Новый год! Выставка архивных документов (Happy New Year!: An Archival Exhibit)
festival
leisure
Online document exhibition dedicated to the New Year celebration in the USSR.
Russian State Archive in Samara
fashion
light industry
consumption
Online document exhibition dedicated to the fashion industry in the USSR.
К 100-летию принятия плана ГОЭЛРО. Инновационный план и его реализация. Выставка архивных документов. (GOELRO: An Innovative Plan and its Realization: A 100th Anniversary of GEORLO Archival Exhibit.)
GOERLO
Online document exhibition dedicated to the history of GOELRO (State Commission for Electrification of Russia).
Репрессированные изобретатели: Выставка архивных документов (Purged Inventors: An Archival Exhibit)
Purges
Great Terror
Online exhibition dedicated to the repressed scientists and scholars of the USSR.
Samara
Запасная столица. к 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. (An Emergency Capital: 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War)
evacuation
Online exhibition dedicated to the WWⅡ experience of Samara.
Виртуальные выставки - Мемориальный музей-заповедник истории политических репрессий «Пермь-36» (Virtual Exhibitions of the Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36")
Stalinism
Khrushchev
censorship
camp
Online exhibitions of the Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36, mostly dedicated to Soviet political repressions.
Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36"
Perm Oblast
Дорога к победе: Плакаты и открытки Великой Отечественной войны (The Path to Victory: Posters and Postcards of the Great Patriotic War)
Virtual exhibition of Soviet posters produced during the Second World War.
Russian National Library
Виртуальные выставки РНБ (Virtual Exhibitions of the Russian National Library)
literature
cartography
Yuri Gagarin
Virtual exhibitions of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other published and unpublished materials from the Russian National Library.
Nuremberg Trials
Leningrad Blockade
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Caucasus
Soviet-Japanese War
Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
Russian Military-Historical Society
Austria
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Moldova
Norway
Romania
Poland
Baltics
Yugoslavia
История.рф [документы] (History of the Russian Federation [Documents])
A set of archival documents on different events during the Great Patriotic War.
NKVD
KGB
secret police
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
Kazakhstan
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
КарикаТур в историю (CaricaTour into History)
caricature
Sino-Russian relations
Russia-Japan relations
World War I
language reform
Revolution
Karl Marx
satire
Lenin
Thematic collections of Russian and Soviet caricature works.
Russian Historical Society
pre-1917 to 2000
USA
arms race
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marshall Malinovskii
Politburo
Surrender of Japan
Churchill
Online document exhibitions of the Russian Historical Society.
France
women
theater
Cold War
nuclear war
Full-text digital archive of The Atlantic, containing all of its issues from 1857 till today. The journal extensively reported on the Soviet Union on various topics. More than 3000 articles on the Soviet Union can be found in the digital archive.
The Atlantic
Библиотека Михаила Грачева (Library of Mikhail Grachev)
political science
history
law
cybernetics
legal source
A private digital library that contains digital transcriptions of many contemporary and Soviet books and articles on politics, history, law, and cybernetics.
Library of Mikhail Grachev
Digital library
Электронные версии газет - Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского (Digital Versions of Newspapers - Saratov State University)
Party organization
Digital newspaper collection of the Saratov State University, containing editions of local official party newspaper.
Saratov State University
Saratov Oblast
Russian Art Gallery - Советский период (Russian Art Gallery - Soviet Period)
fine arts
Digital collection of Soviet-era fine art works.
Russian Art Gallery
События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов (The Events in the Semirechye in the Year 1916 in the Documents of Russian Archives)
Turkestan Revolt
Semirechye Revolt
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
Rosarchiv
1916
Central Asia
Semirechye
Turkestan
Публикации о творчестве А. Н. Пахмутова в интернете (Publications about A. N. Pakhmutova on the internet)
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Selected Soviet-era publications dedicated to Aleksandra Pakhmutova, a Soviet and Russian composer.
Roman Sinel'nikov
Aleksei Charykov
film
youth
Communism
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.
Richard Wess
Japanese
French
Arabic
Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen (History of the Volga Germans)
local administration
Volga German
nationalities policy
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.
Aleksandr Shpak
Volga German ASSR
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.
German Federal Agency for Civic Education
Библиотека [Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский] (Library [Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii])
Anastas Mikoian
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
Андрей Платонов [материалы] (Andrei Platonov [Material])
Andrei Platonov
poetry
Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
Platonov group of IMLI RAN headed by Corresponding Member N. V. Korniienko
Turkmenistan
Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Iuridicheskaia literatura