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A website that collects personal accounts, old photographs, and other types of materials on the city of Tashkent. A lot of posts on the website are dedicated to the city's history.
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The UN Archives Geneva platform gives access to the fonds and collections managed by the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva, including the archives of the United Nations in Geneva, the League of Nations (1919-1946), international peace movements (from 1870), and private papers. The…
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The entirely digitize League of Nations Archives, estimated to contain some 15 million pages of content. The archives include tons of Soviet-related documents on a variety of topics.
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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 web-archive containing photos, videos, books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
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A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
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A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
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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 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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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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Publications of the State Archive of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, among which several are downloadable document collections on the Great Patriotic War, the national congress in the region in the 1934, and expeditions to the region in the 1930s.
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This encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. It provides access to various historical materials related to Soviet Jews.
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Digital collections from Russia at the New York Public Library, mostly consisting of paintings, maps, and documents from imperial Russia.
Digital exhibits from the Museum of Moscow.
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Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and…
A huge digital library of the Library of Congress, containing many files from Russia and the former Soviet Union, including books, periodicals, photographs, paintings, maps, etc.
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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 project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
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A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
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Digital project of the Union of Photo Journalists of Kyrgyzstan. On the website you can find thousands of well-annotated historical photographs of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz people. Besides, the website also has a book section and a map section, where you can download digital copies of old books and…
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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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Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
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Several thematic online exhibitions of archival documents on the establishment of Belarus statehood, the Great Patriotic War, prominent Belarus individuals, as well as pre-revolution historical events.
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The collection of cartographic materials consists of 11,868 items, including 9,039 maps, and 2,829 atlases.
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Plentiful well-organized online exhibitions with a considerable number of archive documents on various topics.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents on the history of Volga Germans.
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Topics include the Great Terror and Soviet political repressions in the region, local cultural development, local intellectuals, etc.
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Several online downloadable document collections published by the State Archive of Kuzbass, dedicated to topics such as WWⅡ memory, administrative-territorial division of Kuzbass, local Komsomol organizations, and Soviet-era regional leaders.
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A complex of digital exhibitions and projects based on archival documents from the Vologda Oblast Archive of Contemporary Political History, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Online downloadable document collections published by the State Archive of Contemporary History of Stavropol Krai, mostly dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents on various topics.
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An information portal that contains extensive data on the WWⅡ experience of the Perm region.
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Publication of the State Archive of Perm Krai, most of which are freely downloadable online. There are several good document collections on local history, religion, education, the 1917 Revolution, etc.
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Document collection dedicated to the history of Orthodox Old Believers in the Baikal region.
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Extensive collection of digitized historical and CIA maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Library of the University of Texas at Austin, including maps of Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Vladimir Oblast. Topics include two World Wars, Russian Revolution, local intellectuals, etc.
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
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Document exhibition on significant milestones in Soviet and Russian economic life.
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Virtual exhibitions of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other published and unpublished materials from the Russian National Library.
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Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
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Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
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Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
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Digital collections of Hoover Institution Library and Archives, containing many Soviet posters, paintings, and English-language audio recordings related to Soviet topics from the 20th century.
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A digital collection of archival documents about the bridge over the Kerch strait which separates Krasnodar Krai from the Crimea.
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