Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans) (Open Access Primary Source)
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Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans)
Description:
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.
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OARRSH_00224
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Tips for Users:
Use the categories on the right to search the site. Especially interesting is the section "Russko-nemetskii samizdat," which includes various documents about the legal rehabilitation of the Volga Germans after the 1950s; the other pages are mostly encyclopedic but contain sporadic photographs and documents.