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A website with a large number of digital copies of publications on Uzbek language, literature, and folklore. Many of these publications are contemporary works, but there is also a large amount of Soviet publications on the website. Apart from literary works and literary scholarship, the website also…
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The official archive of Sakharov, containing scientific works, journalism, epistolary heritage, documents of social and political activity, memoirs, personal and property documents, as well as materials for evaluating the social activities of A. Sakharov and E. Bonner (discussion materials and…
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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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The digital library of the Institute of Russian Literature of the RAS, providing free access to digital copies of the Institute's publications and other literary studies publications.
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An online library of laws and legal studies. It provides open access to Soviet and Russian legal sources and legal literature.
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The digital library of the Parliamentary Library of Russia, containing documents and publications of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, including published official laws, meeting records, published law collections, and works of legal studies. Many digital copies are available online.
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Digital library of the Russian National Library, providing free access to a large number of digitized pre-revolution and Soviet literature.
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The digital library of the Russian Geographical Society, containing thousands of digitized books, maps, atlases, periodicals, expedition reports, and other types of materials of the Society.
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A digital collection consisting of early Soviet periodicals in Tyumen and a book on the history of administrative-territorial delimitation in Tyumen oblast.
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A collection of digital copies of old books and document collections prepared by the State Archive of Tyumen Oblast.
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A Russian federal digital library that contains tens of thousands of documents related to medicine and health. One can find extensive Soviet scholarly literature on medical science in the library.
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A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
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The digital library of the national library of Tatarstan (different from the National Digital Library of Tatarstan), containing digitized published materials on the history Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan, and on the region's economic, political, cultural and scientific development.
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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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A Telegram channel that shares digitized Soviet textbooks.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials on military history. The group has a collection of Soviet military literature from the 1960s till the 1990s.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that promotes communist views and shares various Soviet materials, including printed materials, cinema, painting, and music, that adhere to the community's values. That said, materials shared within this group are not often politically oriented.
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A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
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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 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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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 digital copies of a great variety of books, including a large number of Soviet books.
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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 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 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.
The VK (V Kontakte) page of a Moscow book store of the same name. The VK group often shares digitized Soviet school textbooks.
Digital project that presents numerous digitized Soviet school textbooks.
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.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous digitized Soviet publications on bourgeois propaganda and popular psychology. Many books shared there were published in the Cold War context.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares numerous Soviet academic, popular science, as well as propagandistic books (not always scientific, as the group's name alleges, but atheistic).
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares materials for Chinese studies, among which many are Soviet scholarship.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares academic information and resources about the socio-political processes in the countries of the East (by their definition, any non-Western countries). The group often shares Soviet books, articles, and other sources relevant to the subject.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares both primary historical sources and secondary literature, as well as news and other posts related to historical studies.
Digital collection of published materials on the ethnography and folklore of the Russian North, including the territories of Vologda Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Republic of Komi.
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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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