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Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the…
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…
Project "J-Doc" focuses on state policies of the USSR that affected Jews. It provides free access to various types of sources, including archival documents, periodicals, and oral history interviews.
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…
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…
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.
Blinken OSA Library houses a non-circulating reference library of books related to the Cold War, Communism, international human rights, history of broadcasting and the archival profession as well as a collection of more than 7.300 dailies and journals published from the 1950s onwards in 40…
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…
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.
An online library of laws and legal studies. It provides open access to Soviet and Russian legal sources and legal literature.
Online database of the official texts of legislation of Uzbekistan from 1925 till today.
Online database of legal acts of Kazakhstan adopted from 1948 till today.
A digital collection of extensive Soviet legal acts (transcripts), covering the whole Soviet period.
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.
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.
Digital library of the Russian National Library, providing free access to a large number of digitized pre-revolution and Soviet literature.
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.
The database of Latvian State Archives that contains all descriptions and historical records of the Communist Party fonds (9083 items) and provides free access to many original documents.
A digital project presenting extensive documents related to the First Republic of Georgia.
A digital project that presents more than 1000 archival records of the 19th-20th centuries about Germans living in Georgia and Transcaucasia.
A digital collection of key legal documents, including constitutional laws, international agreements, criminal laws, and economic laws, in the history of Belarus.
A database of more than 3,500 officially published legal acts of the BSSR.
A significant number of digitized documents from the fonds of the State Archive of Kherson Oblast.
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.
Digital archival information system for the State Archive of Novgorod Oblast and State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast, where users can search for documents and fonds information, and view digital copies of original documents without registration.
Online listing of unique archival documents from federal and regional archives of Russia. Each item on the list is a small collection of documents on a certain topic. Currently, the website contains more than 300 items consisting of thousands of pages of digitized archival documents.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
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.
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.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that has shared more than 600 Soviet films, cartoons, and foreign films that were shown in the USSR. Posts in this group are often thematically organized.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet and post-Soviet post-punk, psychedelia, industrial, noise rock, underground, and other types of niche music.
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 website dedicated to Soviet films, where users can watch Soviet movies and cartoons online, listen to radio plays and music from films, and browse relevant posters and photographs.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that features a huge collection of Soviet cartoons.
A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet "Psychedelic" cartoons. Here you can find numerous surrealistic and strange Soviet cartoons.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet films, TV programs, and theater productions.
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian movies produced by the Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
The official YouTube Channel of the film studio "Soiuzmul'tfil'm", where you can find hundreds of Soviet cartoons.
A YouTube channel presenting Soviet and contemporary Russian cartoons and children's films.
The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio programs. It presents video recordings of Soviet TV programs, including films and TV series, news, music, documentaries, programs on sports and culture, etc.
A YouTube channel dedicated to Russian/Soviet and world history. It presents numerous historical video materials, documentaries, oral history interviews, and educational resources (lectures, etc.)
A YouTube channel that presents Soviet movies produced by the Gorky Film Studio.
A comprehensive YouTube playlist of more than 800 Soviet films produced by different film studios.
The official YouTube channel of the Gorky Film Studio, which produced many famous Soviet movies and TV series, such as "17 Moments of Spring".
Online catalog and player of Soviet and Russian films produced by Mosfilm.
The official Russian YouTube channel of Mosfilm, presenting thousands of Soviet and Russian films.
The official English YouTube channel of Mosfilm, presenting over 1000 Soviet and Russian films with English subtitles.
Digital archive of Kazakhstani films, recordings of TV programs, and other types of video materials. Gneres include documentaries, popular science, educational, and artistic films.
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.
Official English-language information bulletin published by the Soviet embassy in the United States.