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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…
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Online database of legal acts of Lithuania, containing the official texts of legislation adopted in Lithuania during its Soviet period. It also contains texts of international laws and international agreements that involved Lithuania.
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Document collections on various topics based on Ukrainian foreign intelligence service records.
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A significant number of digitized documents from the fonds of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Poltava Oblast.
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Digital archive containing thousands of digitized files from four fonds of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv, mainly covering topics on local education and church activities.
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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.
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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 digitized Soviet Marxist literature in different languages of Soviet nationalities.
A YouTube playlist of more than 200 Soviet films and TV series produced by Dovzhenko Film Studio in Ukraine.
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The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Here you can find numerous free-access materials produced in or related to the Soviet Union, including tons of English-language files.
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Here you can find hundreds of thousands of documents and publications, in various languages, that were published in the Soviet Union or about the…
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The digital archive and library of the Ukrainian Information Service (UIS London), an information bureau established in London during the 1970s as the successor of the Ukrainian Publishers. It contains archival fonds related to the OUN and collections of books, periodicals, and other types of…
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Collection of primary source materials related to the history of Zaprozhzhia. Soviet-era documents include local periodicals, construction plans, photographs, and archival documents from city administrations.
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Publications of the State Archive of Odessa Oblast, among which many are downloadable document collections dedicated to important historical events in the region, such as Holodomor and the Second World War.
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Open-access digital collections of Harvard Library, containing many digitized books, periodicals, maps, archival documents, photographs, and other types of primary source materials for researching Soviet history in various languages.
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Digital library of Ukrainian literature maintained by Maxim Tarnawsky, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The library provides free access to digital copies of Ukrainian literary works published in different periods.
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From 1939 to 1953, nearly a million people from the European territories annexed by the USSR were deported to the Gulag. This digital project is a compilation of testimony from former deportees, photographs taken during their lives, private and public archival material, and films, collected by an…
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Digitized finding aids and some documents of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast. The digital archive contains a lot of documents, but they are not organized in a clear way. Users may read the finding aids first, and then check out digitized "SPRAVI" to access original documents.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, consisting of a collection of old photos and a collection of the digital copies of the newspaper "Soviet Bukovyna" from 1940 to 1944.
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Digital archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast, consisting of a digital reading room for reading finding aids and digitalized documents, and an online exhibition section.
Digital archive of the State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast that contains digital copies of imperial-era metric books and Soviet-era house books from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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Digital collection of civil status registration records of the Luhansk region between 1939-1945, as well as imperial-era metric books.
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Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
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Publications of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Currently, it has a document collection on Holodomor in the Dnipropetrovsk region and a guide to the archive's fonds.
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Online exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, based on extensive archival documents.
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Digital collection of documents and materials about Vladimir Vernadsky, including his publications, personal correspondence, diary entries, memoirs, relevant archival documents, etc.
This digital library provides access to more than 150,000 documents digitized by La Contemporaine: printed matter and archival material, drawings, paintings, photographs, posters, and objects, allowing you to delve into the sources of 20th-century history.
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Digital library created by the Central Scientific Library of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University. It contains digital copies of rare books, manuscripts, and periodicals related to science and education. In particular, it has a big collection of Kharkiv publications.
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Digital archive of the State Archive of Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine that provides access to the full-text reference apparatus of the archive and its digitized fonds. Digitized materials are available for viewing online, and non-digitized cases can be ordered to the…
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Digital library of rare children's publications that came out between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century at the National Library of Ukraine for Children.
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Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Wise focusing on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Here users can find publications from different periods on Ukrainian cultural topics.
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Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
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Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
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This collection of open access sources provides links to primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. The documents cover a broad range of historical events (political, economic, social, and cultural) in each of the 49 European countries, including 10…
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Online database of laws and other types of legal documents adopted in Ukraine from 1983 till 1991.
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A digital collection of Ukrainian-language journals and newspapers from the 19th century to the 21st century. Most publications in this collections are literary and art periodicals, such as «Червоний перець» and «Всесвіт», but there are also other kinds of publications.
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Ukrainica is a national reference information and documentary resource of archival, handwritten, and printed sources created in Ukraine or other countries about Ukraine, its history, economy, culture, and people. The digital library now provides open access to tons of digitized books and other types…
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Digital archive containing hundreds of thousands of digitized documents from various Ukrainian archives related to the tragedy of Babyn Yar and the period of occupation of Kyiv during 1941–1943. The website also provides access to digitized finding aids and other referential materials for relevant…
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Unified search engine for digital resources of three state archives of Ukraine: Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government, Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art, and Central State Archives of Public Organizations. Here you can find access to extensive digital…
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Digital archive of the State Archive of the Vinnytsia Oblast that contains descriptions of the fonds and digital copies of extensive documents from local party and state organs. Notably, the digital archive contains a lot of documents from the local security service.
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Digital archive of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast. It contains descriptions of the fonds of the archive, and extensive digital copies of documents related to local administration, the Jewish community, and other topics. Notably, it provides open access to a great number of documents from the…
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