Виртуальные выставки и подборки архивных документов - Государственный архив Брянской области (Virtual Exhibits and Selections of Archival Documents - State Archive of Bryansk Oblast)
Bryansk Region
Great Patriotic War
memory
theater
culture
Holocaust
Jewish
German occupation
state
everyday life
children
childhood
youth
Moscow State University
mathematics
academics
scholarship
writer
poetry
health
sport
physical education
education
komsomol
hospital
Bryansk Regional Hospital
doctor
medicine
social services
Bryansk State Technical University
university
science
technology
festival
women
letter
partisan
veteran
celebration
A site with archival exhibitions of the State Archive of Bryansk Oblast, including photographs, official documents, etc.
State Archive of Bryansk Oblast
Online exhibition
Russian
Bryansk Oblast
Russia
Самара в открытках и фотографиях (Samara in postcards and photographs)
Samara
urban history
local history
A site with postcards and photographs from old Samara, including from the early Soviet period.
Georgii Vladimirovich Bichurov
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989: 20 Years Later
Soviet-Afghan War
foreign policy
foreign relations
A documentary exhibit about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is a tribute to the late Russian historian Gen. A. A. Lyakhovsky, and contains a few official documents (like Politburo meeting sessions), correspondence, etc. relating to the war. All documents were translated into English.
George Washington University
English
USSR
Afghanistan
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War
U.S.-Soviet relations
Declassified US National Security Agency records on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
National Security Agency (U.S.A.)
1962
Digital archive
USA
Cuba
1939 год. От "умиротворения" к войне (The Year 1939: From Appeasement to War )
appeasement
Munich agreement
invasion
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
World War Ⅱ
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the politics of appeasement.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Russian State Military Archive
1939
Europe
Germany
Накануне и после Мюнхена. Архивные документы рассказывают. К 80-летию 'Мюнхенского сговора' (On the Eve of and After Munich: the 80th Anniversary of the Munich Agreement )
Munich Agreement
interwar period
Nazi Germany
Soviet-Nazi relations
international relations
An exhibit about the events leading up to the Great Patriotic War, and specifically about the Munich Agreement that played a large role in the politics of appeasement.
Федеральный архивный проект: Преступления нацистов и их пособников против мирного населения СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг. (Federal Archival Project: The Crimes of Nazis and their Collaborators Against the Civilian Population of the USSR in the Years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945)
Nazi
SMERSH
NKVD
secret police
KGB
occupation
concentration camp
aging
disability
A project containing documents, photographs, posters, etc. about the crimes of the Nazis against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The collection captures the experiences of a wide variety of individuals who suffered under the Nazi regime, including children, the mentally ill, Jews, women, partisans, the elderly, Romani people, the sick, and prisoners of war.
Digital project
Электронная библиотека портала Архивы России (The Electronic Library of the Portal "Archives of Russia")
Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
politics
political institution
The electronic library of the Federal Archival Agency's Portal of the Archives of Russia. It contains several document collections, notably one consisting of documents from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Digital document collection
The Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line
anti-Revisionism
Sino-Soviet split
ideology
Digital encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism developed by the Marxists Internet Archive, containing English translations of representative anti-Revisionist materials from China, Albania, and many western countries.
Marxists Internet Archive
China
Albania
Canada
Australia
Bangladesh
Belgium
Chile
Denmark
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Greece
Iceland
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Крым в истории России (Crimea in Russian History)
Crimea
local administration
A digital project with photographs and documents about Crimea and its role as part of the Russian Empire/ USSR.
"Я родился в 1912 году..." К 100-летию со дня рождения Б. Е. Чертока ("I was born in 1912..." The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of B. Ie. Chertok Exhibit)
Boris Chertok
engineering
intellectual
An exhibit devoted to Soviet rocket scientist Boris Chertok and his work on the development of the Soviet space program. It contains mostly documents from the Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation.
Нюрнбергский процесс в документах российских архивов (The Nuremberg Trials in the Documents of Russian Archives)
Nuremberg Trials
A digital project containing photographs and official documents and correspondence about the Nuremberg Trials from the Russian state archives.
Азия и Африка сегодня (Asia and Africa today)
internationalism
propaganda
economy
industrialization
literature
literature & arts
Official digital archive of the journal "Asia and Africa today", containing digital copies of editions of the journal from 1958 till 1974. Some articles can be freely downloaded as PDF from the website, while others are not free.
Asia and Africa today
Asia
Africa
Central Asia
"Закаленные Великой Отечественной..." 65-летие Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг. ("Forged by the Great Patriotic War..." The 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 Project)
military
weapon
The 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War documentary exhibit, containing photographs and official documents about the war.
Сталинград. К 75-летию разгрома советскими войсками немецко-фашистских войск в Сталинградской битве (Stalingrad: 75th Anniversary of the Victory of Soviet Forces over Nazi German Forces in the Battle of Stalingrad)
Battle of Stalingrad
A digital exhibit devoted to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. It includes official documents, photographs, correspondence, and other documents.
Дорогой Гагарина: к 50-летию первого полета человека в космос (Dear Gagarin: To the 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of Man to Space)
space race
astronautics
Yuri Gagarin
A digital exhibit about the life and work of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, which includes photographs, excerpts from memoirs about him, physical objects, posters and postcards, and official documents.
Электронный архив ЮУрГУ (Digital Archive of the South Ural State University)
natural science
Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university. Most of the available Soviet-era publications are on natural sciences and technologies.
South Ural State University
Digital library
Ural
Советский спутник--первый в мире! К 60-летию запуска Первого искусственного спутника земли (The Soviet Sputnik was the First in the World! 60th Anniversary of the Launch of the First Man-Made Satellite of the Earth)
Sputnik
aviation
A digital exhibit with documents about the development of Soviet space technologies. It contains pamphlets, photographs, and official documents.
Офицеры Первой мировой--генералы Великой Отечественной (The Officers of the First World War--the Generals of the Great Patriotic War)
World War I
Digital collection of archival documents about Russian imperial military officers during the First World War and Soviet military officers during the Second World War.
Голоса писателей и поэтов России: "Время проходит, но сказанное слово остается" (Л. Н. Толстой) (The Voices of Writers and Poets of Russia: "Time Passes, but a Spoken Word Remains." (L. N. Tolstoi))
A collection of audio clips with the voices of Russian and Soviet literary and cultural figures from the late 19th and 20th centuries exhibited by the Russian State Archive of Phono Documents.
Мост через Керченский пролив (The Bridge over Kerch Strait)
Kerch Strait
infrastructure
A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
Статистика военных лет (Statistics of the War Years)
statistics
A statistical collection about the Great Patriotic War published by the Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia.
Federal Service for State Statistics of Russia
Библиотека Евро-Азиатского Еврейского Конгресса (ЕАЕК) (Library of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC))
Leningrad Blockade
Six Day War
Natan (Anatolii) Sharanskii
human rights
nationalities
personal narrative
A site of digitized rare primary source books on Jewish, including Russian Jewish, history.
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Leningrad
Этно-кавказ. Этнодемография Кавказа. Подробные данные переписей населения и этнографические карты (Ethno-Caucasus. The Ethnodemography of the Caucasus. Detailed Information of Censuses of the Population and Ethnographic Maps.)
Caucasus
census
population
ethnography
A site with demographic and ethnographic records and maps of both North and South Caucasus.
ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru
South Caucasus
Armenia
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh
Abkhazia
Adygea Republic
South Ossetia
Karachay-Cherkessia
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
North Ossetia–Alania Republic
Ingushetia
Dagestan
Chechnya
Krasnodar Krai
Stavropol Krai
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
collectivization
political repression
Perestroika
New Economic Policy
A German-Russian joint project for the classification and digitization of Soviet posters.
Dr. Klaus Waschik (Iu. M. Lotman Institute of Russian and Soviet Culture of the Ruhr University Bochum)
Nina Baburina (Russian State Library, Moscow)
Konstantin Kharin
Трагедия белорусских деревень 1941-1944. Документы и материалы. (The Tragedy of Belarusian Villages 1941-1944. Documents and Materials. )
Belarus
village
Digitized collection of archival documents about Belarusian villages burned during the Great Patriotic War.
Department of Archives and Clerical Work of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus
National Archive of the Republic of Belarus
World Belarus Fond
Russian Fond of Aid to Current Historical Research "Historical Memory"
Белорусские деревни, сожженные в годы Великой Отечественной войны (Belarusian villages, burnt during the years of the Great Patriotic War)
A database of information about Belarusian villages burnt during the years of the Great Patriotic War.
Online database
Russian Posters Collection, 1919-1989 and Undated
art
communism
A collection of Russian posters from 1919-1989 from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ukraine
Иван Александрович Ильин: архивные материалы (Ivan Aleksandrovich Il'in: Archival Materials)
philosophy
emigration
Ivan Il'in
A site devoted to the life and work of Russian philosopher Ivan Il'in, who worked in Russia before 1922 and spent much of the Soviet period in exile. It contains official documents relating to his work, personal correspondence, and some of his works.
Daniil Tsigankov
О творчестве Александра Солженицына (About the Works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection of articles, documents, and books related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary career, with download links to his published works.
Cultural-educational Internet Portal "Aleksandr Isaievich Solzhenitsyn"
Жизнь Солженицына: Документы (The Life of Solzhenitsyn: Documents)
Collection of archival documents related to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Электронный архив РГППУ (Digital Archive of the Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University)
pedagogy
Digital archive of the Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from the 1960s till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly about pedagogy.
Russian State Professional-Pedagogical University
Sverdlovsk
Komsomol
A Princeton University digital library of Soviet children's books from 1918-1938.
Cotsen Children's Library
Электронная библиотека УрГПУ (Digital Library of the Ural State Pedagogical University)
history
social sciences
philology
linguistics
Digital library of the Ural State Pedagogical University, containing digital copies of the university's publications from 1938 till today, including academic books and periodicals, mostly dedicated to pedagogy.
Ural State Pedagogical University
Комплекс архивных документов и материалов, посвященных Второй мировой войне (Complex of Achival Documents and Materials Dedicated to the Second World War)
Digital collection of archival documents and materials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War in Volgograd Oblast.
Center for Documentation of Contemporary History of Volgograd Oblast
Center for the Study of the Battle of Stalingrad
Volgograd Oblast
«Зимнее волшебство». Нацистская карательная операция в белорусско-латвийском пограничье, февраль – март 1943 г.: документы и материалы ("Winter Magic": Nazi Punitive Operation on the Belarus-Latvian Border, February - March 1943: Documents and Materials)
A published collection of archival documents about Nazi German punitive operations on the Belarus-Latvian border zones in 1943.
1943
Latvia
Электронный архив ТПУ (Digital Repository of Tomsk Polytechnic University)
Party organization
welfare
Digital repository of the publications of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, containing about 10,000 digital copies of Soviet-era academic and non-academic publications of the university, including the university party buro's official newspaper "Za Kadry".
Tomsk Polytechnic University
Tomsk
Siberia
Библиотека первоисточников евразийцев: 20-30-е годы (Library of Primary Sources of Eurasianists: 20s-30s)
Eurasianism
A collection of the works of the Eurasianist thinkers of the 1920s and 1930s. It includes published articles, correspondence, and other materials.
Boris Orekhov
Nicholas II
imperial family
A public history resource about the Alexander Palace and the fate of Nicholas II and his family. It contains photographs, personal accounts, official documents, etc. on these topics.
Bob Atchinson
Библиотека Русской религиозно-философской и художественной литературы "Вехи" (Library of Russian Religious-philosophical Literature and Fiction "Vekhi")
Vekhi
religion
Vladimir Solov'ev
Nikolai Berdaiev
Sergei Bulgakov
Pavel Florenskii
Semen Frank
Lev Shestov
Vasilii Rozanov
Georgii Fedotov
Nikolai Losskii
Georgii Florovskii
Website with works by and about Russian religious thinkers and philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biblioteka "Vekhi"
Доброволец: газета войск освободительного движения (Volunteer: A Newspaper of the Liberator Armed Forces)
Digital editions of newspaper "Dobrovolets" from 1943 to 1944.
Berlin State Library
Pskov
Архив газеты Накануне (Archive of the Newspaper "On the Eve")
Digital editions of the Russian emigres newspaper Nakanune (published in Berlin) from 1922-1924.
Ber Borochov
Marxism
Internet archive with the works of Marxist Zionist Ber Borochov (1881-1917). It contains a number of his works and links to other relevant websites.
Ber Borochov Internet Archive
Жизнь и поэзия Николая Рубцова: душа хранит [письма] (The Life and Poetry of Nikolai Rubtsov: The Spirit Retains [Letters] )
Nikolai Rubtsov
Site commemorating the life and work of Soviet poet Nikolai Rubtsov. It contains digital copies of some of his works, drafts, and correspondence.
1917: Digital Resources on the Russian Revolution
Annotated bibliography of a number of digitized sources on the Russian Revolution. It links to a number of sites with documents, charts, posters, and photographs (among other resources) about the revolution.
ASEEES
1917
Библиотека проекта "Московское метро" Артемия Лебедева (Moscow Metro Electronic Library)
Moscow metro
urban planning
transportation
Site dedicated to the Moscow metro and containing resources about its construction and history. It includes contemporaneous newspaper articles and personal accounts by various people (architects, engineers, builders) associated with the metro.
Artemii Lebedev Studio
Moscow
soldiers
Commemorative site with interviews of veterans of the Great Patriotic War supported by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. It also includes soldiers' letters and audio recordings of veterans' narratives.
Artem Drabkin et al.
Eastern Europe
Digitalisierte Zeitungstitel (List of digitized newspapers)
emigre
Digitized newspaper editions of the Berlin State Library, including several Russian emigres newspapers, such as Novoe slovo, Naš mir, and Nakanune.
Azerbaijani
Большевистский порядок в Грузии. В 2-х томах (Bolshevik Order in Georgia. 2 Volumes.)
Great Terror
Two-volume document collection and oral history interview collection on the Great Terror in Georgia. The first volume includes six long interviews with the descendants of the victims of the Great Terror in Georgia, and the second volumes consists of archival documents and statistical data on the Great Terror in Georgia.
АИРО-XXI
church
World War Ⅰ
Lenin
Stalin
Sino-Soviet relations
general
Digital archive of the editions of The New York Times from 1851 till today, containing many Soviet-related reports.
New York Times