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Kogu Me Lugu (translates into Collect Our Story, We're Collecting The Story, also Our Entire Story) is an online oral history portal that collects, preserves and shares the family stories of Estonians from around the world in video format. The project focuses on the memories of people who were…
The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. This digital archive now contains over 113,000 items of…
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
The Telegram channel of a digital project of the same name that shares digitized imperial Russian and Soviet rare books (always on very niche topics), as well as thousands of illustrations and citations from these books.
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.
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.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet films, TV programs, and theater productions.
The official YouTube Channel of the Kazakhfilm Film Studio, where you can find hundreds of Soviet movies of various genres produced in Kazakhstan.
A YouTube Channel with plentiful historical video materials about Kazakhstan, specifically about Dinmukhamed Kunaev and the Jambul Region.
A YouTube channel dedicated to Soviet films. Here one can find hundreds of films of various genres produced in different regions of the USSR. Most films on this channel were produced before the 1950s.
Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
Russian and Eurasian collections at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Though most items in the collections are not available online, users can still access thousands of Soviet posters and western radio broadcast records related to the USSR online.
A digital archive and library of Soviet-era and later archaeological reports, surveys, and scholarship on Central Asia.
Digital photo archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing photo documents of the Institute from the 1940s till today.
Mediazona's oral history interview with Uyghur emigrants from China to the USSR.
Digital photo archive of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study.
A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
Online database developed by the International Memorial, providing information about the personnel of the Soviet NKVD during 1935 and 1939.
Online exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, based on extensive archival documents.
Many downloadable document collections published by the State Archive of Eastern-Kazakhstan Oblast on various interesting topics, such as Kazakh migration to China in the 1920s and the collectivization of agriculture in the region.
Several digital document collections provided by the Central State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation of Kazakhstan on Kazakhstan's national scientists and scientific and technological development during the Soviet times.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Western-Kazakhstan Oblast. It consists of several sections, including a section on the archive's digital publications, a section on digitized historical periodicals, a section on digital exhibitions of archival documents, and a digital reading room for reading…
The exhibitions cover various topics in Kazakhstan's history, including the Kazakh famine of the 1930s, nationalities questions, cultural and scientific development in Soviet Kazakhstan, the nation's political leaders, etc.
Online database on WWⅡ Soviet prisoners of war from Kazakhstan, developed by the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan.
Online database on victims of the Kazakh Famine of the 1930s, developed by the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan.
Three downloadable document collections on Soviet-era deportations to Kazakhstan from 1930 to 1945, published by the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More digital publications may be added to this section in the future.
Selections of documents from the "Special files (Особые папки)" of the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan. Currently, only two documents are available online in this section, but more documents may be published online in the future.
Online database of biographies of nomenclatural cadres of Party, Komsomol, administrative, financial, and professional organs of Soviet Kazakhstan from 1919-1991 based on archival documents from the Presidential Archive of Kazakhstan.
A digital project developed by a team of James Madison College faculty and librarians from MSU on the collapse of the USSR and the early years of statehood of the Soviet successor states. The digitized materials collected for these events include contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Russian and in…
A few digital copies of books and newspaper issues of Soviet Kazakhstan as well as imperial Turkestan.
Online downloadable document collection dedicated to the major wars Russia/the USSR took part in in the 20th century.
A digital project on the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, containing photographs and audio and video recordings.
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.
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
Digital full-text of a five-volume document collection on Soviet collectivization and dekulakization.
Centropa is a digital project with the goal of preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In the archive of the project you can find numerous transcripted interviews, photographs, and documents about Jewish life in the former Soviet…
An interesting media resource. On the website, you can search for information about films, photographs, and audio materials at Kazakhstan's Central State Archive of Film-Photo Documents and Audio Recording. The digital copies of some photographs and audio recordings are directly accessible from the…
Digital museum presenting thousands of exhibits, archival documents, and photographs on the history of Gulag and Soviet political repression.
Digital archive of the Iofe Fond, containing archival documents, memoirs, biographic data, and other types of materials related to Soviet political repression and civil activism.
A database of information about editions of classic Soviet samizdat, 1956-1986. The Database includes approximately 300 titles, representing all known types of samizdat periodical editions from this late Soviet era, including human rights bulletins, poetry anthologies, rock zines, religious and…
Digital portal that provides open access to archival documents, books, and periodicals relevant to Aktobe Oblast in Kazakhstan. Here you can find thematic collections of archival documents, Soviet-era local periodical issues, as well as books and various referential materials.
Digital project of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The digital library provides open access to digital copies of hundreds of thousands of books, periodicals, and other types of materials from different libraries in Kazakhstan. The collection includes a huge…
Digital archive of memoirs, diaries, and personal correspondence on Soviet political repressions from the fonds of the International Memorial. Most of these documents were not published. You can use thematic, geographical, and institutional indicators to search for relevant materials on this…
Digital archive of English-language primary source documents, essays, books, and personal accounts related to Soviet history. Some of these are original English documents and accounts, some are English translations of Russian-language originals. The website also provides free access to digitized…
Full-text databases of the scientific library of the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi. Here you can find digital copies of many Soviet Kazakhstani academic publications.
Digital library of the Central Scientific Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, containing many digitized Soviet publications, manuscripts in different languages, archival documents, as well as video materials.