Советские ПСИХОДЕЛИЧЕСКИЕ мультики (Soviet PSYCHEDELIC cartoons) VK Group
cartoon
surrealism
avant-garde
art
film
cinema
culture
animation
literature & arts
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
Link to the Resource
?-1991
VK group
Social media
Russian
USSR
Дорогие товарищи. Архивные фото Сыктывкара (Dear comrades. Archival photos of Syktyvkar) VK group
local history
urban history
everyday life
architecture
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.
Digital collection
Russia
Komi Republic
Syktyvkar
Советские мультфильмы (Soviet cartoons) VK Group
children
folklore
fairy tale
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
music
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.
Digital project
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.).
Мультфильмы Чехословакии и Польши (Czechoslovak and Polish Cartoons)
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.
Polish
Czech
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
РЕДКИЕ и ЦЕННЫЕ КНИГИ И МАТЕРИАЛЫ (Rare and Precious Books and Materials) VK Group
science
scholarship
printing
general
history
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.
global
literature
poetry
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books, many of which are Soviet publications of various types.
Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) VK Group
education
school
youth
literacy
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet textbooks cataloged by grades and disciplines.
Занимательная литература (Intriguing literature) VK Group
language
popular science
natural science
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares various Soviet and contemporary Russian popular science publications, textbooks, and other types of books.
ethnography
Uyghur
Kazakh
Uzbek
Kyrgyz
Turkmen
Tajik
anthropology
national culture
religion
law
turkology
Oriental Studies
ethnicity
nationalism
ethnic studies
Islam
nationalities
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
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Xinjiang
China
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.
satire
humor
caricature
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares clippings from the Soviet satirical magazine, Krokodil.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet textbooks, children's books, and other types of Soviet educational materials.
Кладовая. Книги. История. (Repository. Books. History.) VK Group
travel
book
paganism
cartography
geography
medicine
archaeology
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.
French
English
Tatarstan
Belarus
Ukraine
USA
Africa
Раритеты Советского Периода (Rarities of the Soviet Period) VK Group
late socialism
rock music
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares rare video and audio recordings of Soviet rock 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.
Советская и постсоветская музыка (Soviet and Post-Soviet music) VK Group
psychedelia
underground art
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.
Психоделия по-советски (Soviet Psychedelia) VK Group
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet psychedelic artwork, including paintings, cartoons, caricatures, posters, etc.
diplomacy
memory
Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and contemporary Russian paintings.
Культурная Антропология и Этнография (Cultural anthropology and ethnography) VK Group
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.
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.
agitation
propaganda
politics
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares historical agitational materials (mostly Soviet), including advertisements, posters, caricatures, and other types of materials.
German
other
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.
СОВЕТСКИЙ ЭКРАН (Soviet Screen) VK Group
leisure
television
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
Гостелерадиофонд (Gosteleradiofond) VK Group
radio
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
socialist realism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
Mayakovsky
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).
Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
technology
police
political institution
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.
Ukrainian
Azerbaijan
Клуб левых историков и обществоведов (Club of Left Historians and Social Scientists) VK Group
Lenin
Leninism
political leader
political repression
Great Terror
Communism
Party organization
Stalin
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.
agriculture
culinary art
health
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.
Gulag
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.
Facebook page
Из газетного архива (и других архивов) (From the newspaper archive and other archives) Facebook Group
press
foreign relations
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.
A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
«Еврейские герои» (Jewish heroes) Telegram Channel
Jewish
anti-Semitism
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
Хранилище. Историческая литература. Книги. (Repository. Historical literature. Books) VK Group
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
foreign policy
Russian Civil War
Russian Revolution
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.
Советская Бурятия (Soviet Buryatia) VK Group
intellectual
infrastructure
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
Buryatia
Буряадай уран зохёолой юртэмсэ/Литературный мир Бурятии (Literary world of Buryatia) VK Group
Great Patriotic War
theater
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
Советский альманах (Soviet almanac) VK Group
media
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
Цифровая история (Digital history) VK Group
Stalinism
Cold War
Red Army
military
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.
Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
astronautics
aviation
documentary
nature
industry
sport
transportation
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
ЗНАНИЕ — СИЛА / Советские книги для всех (Knowledge - Power / Soviet books for all) VK Group
psychology
pedagogy
biology
chemistry
physics
astronomy
economics
philology
ideology
Marxism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
Становление Человека (Becoming a Human) VK Group
communism
A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
Книги и журналы по военной истории (Books and journals on military history) VK Group
historiography
war
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials on military history. The group has a collection of Soviet military literature from the 1960s till the 1990s.
LiveJournal page of a website "Istoriia gosudarstva", dedicated to the study of Russian and Soviet history. The LiveJournal blog often shares primary source materials on various topics.
Istoriia gosudarstva
LiveJournal blog
Игорь Петров (Igor Petrov) LiveJournal Page
Soviet-German relations
army
economy
P.O.W.
The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often related to the Second World War.
Igor Petrov
Germany
celebrity
A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
История пропаганды (History of Propaganda)
World War Ⅰ
A website dedicated to the history of propaganda around the world in all historical periods. The website contains a section on Soviet propaganda, where many primary source materials are presented.
Oleg Tarasov
Far East
Southeast Asia
Europe
KGB
secret police
security service
intelligence
Soviet-Romanian relations
Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
Igor Casu
Digital document collection
Romanian
Moldova
Romania