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…
Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
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.
Digital project developed by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes aimed at documenting political repression against Czechoslovaks in the Soviet Union. Currently, the project website has published testimonies of survivors, specialist and popularising articles, databases, exhibitions…
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.
A memory project conducted among families from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Perm. In each family extensive interviews were carried out with the oldest relatives, who were able to explain the context of their family archives and relate them to the family history. This represents a unique collection…
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…
This digital archive provides access to digitized photographs, postcards, drawings, and posters stored in the fonds of the State Security Committee of the Lithuanian SSR (KGB), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LKP), the Ministry of the Interior of the Lithuanian SSR (MVD), as well as descriptions of…
Digital archive of documents of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvia SSR, containing extensive documents about the structure, personnel, and operation of the KGB in Latvia.
Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
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…
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…
A private digital project that provides open access to a huge number of primary sources for researching Russian and Soviet history, including published materials, archival documents (transcriptions), statistics, and photographs.
Information portal of the National Archives of Estonia, where you can find links to various digital archives, digital libraries, online databases, and digital projects of Estonian archives.
Digitized archival documents from the National Archives of Estonia. Though most documents are from the pre-1940 period, one can still find a lot of Soviet-era documents from this website.
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…
Digital archive that contains abundant digitized documents from different Ukrainian archives from the imperial and Soviet periods. Notably, it has a collection of criminal cases from the KGB archive of Crimea. The website also has several online exhibitions.