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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.

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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.

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"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.

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A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

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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.

Larisa Kravchenko

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digital copies of a great variety of books, including a large number of Soviet books.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares historical agitational materials (mostly Soviet), including advertisements, posters, caricatures, and other types of materials.

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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.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and contemporary Russian paintings.

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Digital project that collects and presents old photographs and personal amateur films from the Soviet Union.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet psychedelic artwork, including paintings, cartoons, caricatures, posters, etc.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.

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A website dedicated to Soviet rock music, where you can search Soviet rock bands, listen to their music, and watch old video recordings.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares rare video and audio recordings of Soviet rock music.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books printed during the 5th and the 20th centuries.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet textbooks, children's books, and other types of Soviet educational materials.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares clippings from the Soviet satirical magazine, Krokodil.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet children's books and textbooks, as well as children's journals and film strips.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares various Soviet and contemporary Russian popular science publications, textbooks, and other types of books.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet textbooks cataloged by grades and disciplines.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized old books, many of which are Soviet publications of various types.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized rare books and other types of materials, many of which are Soviet academic publications.

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet movies and movie-related media products (posters, music, etc.).

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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.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares photographs of the city Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) of the Soviet era.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet caricatures, clippings from satirIcal magazines of the USSR, and Soviet cartoons.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet funk, soul, jazz, and disco.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group dedicated to Soviet films. It shares online watchable Soviet films, as well as soundtracks and information about the Soviet film industry.

Dmitrii Frontov

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The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.

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Digital project that presents numerous digitized Soviet school textbooks.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library of Russian-language publications on Marxism and relevant subjects. Here one can find numerous digitized Soviet publications on Marxism and relevant social-political and economic issues.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet Marxist literature in different languages of Soviet nationalities.

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A VK (V Kontakte) group designed to be a digital library aimed at "uncovering the life and activities of real ruling dynasties, clans, elites, and super monopolies." The groups shares numerous Soviet publications on western bourgeoisie.
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