Пензенская электронная библиотека (Penza Digital Library)
agriculture
art
Great Patriotic War
economy
October Revolution
Russian Orthodox Church
history
education
theater
culture
Russian Civil War
peasantry
kolkhoz
literature
social welfare
poetry
political institution
Party organization
industry
Red Army
music
law
folklore
folk culture
sport
legal source
literature & arts
Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
Penza Oblast Library
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
Penza Oblast
Russia
Краеведческий интернет-портал "Нижегородская область: страницы истории" (Internet-portal "Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Pages of History")
public health
intellectual
religion
urban history
Revolution
ecology
environment
Komsomol
Maksim Gorgyi
radio
everyday life
Old Believer
propaganda
natural science
Digital collection of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Universal Scientific Library on the history of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, containing extensive books and periodicals from and on the region.
Nizhny Novgorod State Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Digital collection
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Электронная библиотека - Магаданская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
press
printing
borderland
A.G. Kozlov
local study
nationalities
Digital library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library. Currently, it has four collections: digitized issues of the journal "На севере дальнем" (from 1955 till today); digitized issues of the newspaper "Советская Колыма" (1936-1954); folklore of indigenous peoples; and works of Aleksandr Kozlov, a Soviet historian of the Magadan region.
Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Magadan Oblast
Kolyma
Электронная библиотека - Воронежская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
social sciences
science
philology
technology
Digital library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing a considerable number of digitized books and periodicals. Particularly, it has not only oblast-level but also raion-level periodicals.
Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Voronezh Oblast
Пермская электронная библиотека (Perm Digital Library)
travel
legislation
justice
language
cosmos
local administration
climate
Digital library of the Perm State Library of Maksim Gorky, containing a lot of interesting publications from the Russian imperial times through the contemporary era. Apart from extensive publications in Russian, the digital library also provides access to publications in the Komi-Permyak language.
Perm Krai Gorky Universal Library
Permyak
Perm Krai
global
Электронная библиотека Республики Карелия (Digital Library of the Republic of Karelia)
astronomy
library
biology
military
geography
geology
land use
cartography
mathematics
medicine
political science
politics
psychology
mass media
philosophy
chemistry
economics
linguistics
local history
museum
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period. It also has a lot of publications and manuscripts in Finnish language.
National Library of the Republic of Karelia
Finnish
Republic of Karelia
ЭЛЕКТРОННАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА Петербурга (Digital Library of Petersburg)
Leningrad Blockade
fine arts
history of science
intellectual history
Digital project led by the Mayakovsky Library, with the participation of many other libraries in Saint-Petersburg. Apart from publications of all sorts, this digital library provides open access to many digitized publications on Saint-Petersburg.
Mayakovsky Library
USSR
Leningrad
Saint-Petersburg
Электронный библиотека ГПНТБ России (Digital Library of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology)
Amur
architecture
urban planning
viticulture
water management
historiography
light industry
metallurgy
Crimea
physics
energy
transportation
Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
Электронная библиотека "Научное наследие России" (Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia")
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian diaspora
archaeology
demography
sociology
cybernetics
automation
nuclear technology
fishing
biotechnology
forestry
housing
statistics
scientist
scholar
personal narrative
Digital library of the Russian Academy of Sciences that provides open access to extensive digitized academic publications as well as relevant archival documents, museum objects, and photographs.
Электронные коллекции Российской Национальной Библиотеки (Digital Collections of the Russian National Library)
February Revolution
children
Russian avant-garde
Digital collections of Russian National Library that provide open access to extensive pre- and post-1917 publications on a variety of themes.
Russian National Library
Europe
World War Ⅱ
evacuation
partisan
guerilla warfare
industrial development
film
cinema
trade
oral history
Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
Online database
Online exhibition
Digital project
Digital document collection
Tikhvin
Kronshtadt
Электронная библиотека Государственного архива Новосибирской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
infrastructure
Soviet-Afghan War
women
Soviet-Finnish War
newspaper
periodicals
deportation
Kalmyk
collectivization
defence
railroad
trans-Siberian railroad
space program
A well-designed digital library based on extensive archival documents from the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast. The digital library is divided into several sections, including digital exhibitions, online document collections, digital collections, online periodicals, etc. It would be a very useful resource for researching the Novosibirsk region, as well as most common topics in Soviet history.
State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Omsk
Tomsk Oblast
nazi
Fascism
A Russian federal project aimed at "retain the historical memory about the tragedy of the peaceful population of the USSR - victims of the war crimes of nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War." Under the framework of the project, archives across Russia have published a series of document collections under the same title. These publications are freely accessible on the project's website. Users can also use the database on the website to search documents they want to access.
Poiskovoe dvizhenie Rossii
Belgorod Oblast
Bryansk Oblast
Volgograd Oblast
Kalmykia
Kaluga Oblast
Republic of Karelya
Krasnodar Krai
Sevastopol
Kursk Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Moscow
Moscow Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Oryol Oblast
Pskov Oblast
Rostov Oblast
North Caucasus
Smolensk Oblast
Stavropol Krai
Tver Oblast
Tula Oblast
Germany
Lipetsk Oblast
Full Listing of Ancillary Editor Project Documents (Stalin Digital Archive)
Great Terror
Far East
Stalin
Documents selected as ancillary material the Editor Projects associated with the Stalin Digital Archive.
Yale University Press
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
English
Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified
1956 Polish Crisis
foreign policy
international relations
Polish crisis
Cold War
nuclear power
Sino-Soviet relations
hockey
Cuban missile crisis
East German uprising
Somalia
Ethiopia
Africa
Ogaden War
Ethiopian-Somali conflict
India
nuclear proliferation
Surveillance/espionage
Interkit
Iran
Katyn Massacre
Poland
nationalities policy
media
censorship
political police
destalinization
Yugoslavia
Hungary
KGB
CIA
Radio Free Europe
Warsaw Pact
invasion of Afghanistan
Prague spring
space race
Algeria
Horn of Africa
Yi-Ta Incident
politburo
invasion of Czechoslovakia
Chernobyl
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Khrushchev
Olympic Games
Soviet-North Korean relations
Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
Woodrow Wilson Center
Digital archive
Chinese
German
Albanian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Czech
French
Hebrew
Hungarian
Japanese
Korean
Mongolian
Romanian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Polish
Eastern Europe
China
Электронный архив В. И. Вернадского (Electronic Archive of V. I. Vernadskii)
scholarship
bibliography
mineralogy
geochemistry
Vladimir Vernadsky
Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
Vladimir Vernadsky Digital Archive
Ukraine
White Army
emigre
André Savine
The André Savine Collection is composed of several large sub-collections documenting the lives of Russian exiles. The most distinguished of these, named by Savine “Militaria,” documents the life of the Russian White Army in Gallipoli and beyond.
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Libraries
NATO
security
intelligence
Soviet bloc
arms control
foreign relations
NATO's digital archive, containing thousands of declassified or unclassified NATO memorandum, analytical reports, and other types of documents regarding the Soviet Union.
NATO Archives Online
USA
France
中文马克思主义文库 (Chinese-language Marxist Full-text Database)
ideology
internationalism
Leninism
Marxism
Comintern
anti-Revisionism
Sino-Soviet split
Russian Revolution
Open-access full-text database of Chinese-language Marxist works, developed by the Marxists Internet Archive. It contains the Chinese translations of Lenin's works and many other Soviet publications. It also has many documents related to Sino-Soviet relations, such as a 21-volume document collection on the relationship between the Comintern and the CCP (共产国际、联共（布）与中国革命档案资料丛书) published by the CCP's Central Institute of Party History and Literature, and a 34-volume document collection of Soviet archival documents (苏联历史档案选编) published by China's Social Sciences Academic Press.
Marxists Internet Archive
secret police
nationalism
Communism
security service
Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
Baltics
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Государственный архив Алтайского края (State Archive of Altai Krai)
Altai Region
orphanage
World War Ⅰ
Aleksandr Rodionov
fire department
Viktor Sadchikov
virgin lands campaign
The official website of the State Archive of the Altai Krai, which provides free access to numerous digitized archival materials from the archive.
State Archive of Altai Krai
Altai Krai
Виртуальный музей ГУЛАГа (Virtual Gulag museum)
Gulag
memory
political repression
purge
Digital museum presenting thousands of exhibits, archival documents, and photographs on the history of Gulag and Soviet political repression.
Fond Iofe
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Электронный архив научно-информационного центра "Фонд Иофе" (Санкт-Петербург) (Electronic Archive of the Scientific-informational Center "Iofe Fond" (Saint Petersburg))
opposition
human rights
civil society
NKVD
feminist movement
Digital archive of the Iofe Fond, containing archival documents, memoirs, biographic data, and other types of materials related to Soviet political repression and civil activism.
Manchuria
新聞記事文庫 (神戸大学附属図書館) (Newspaper Clippings Collection (Kobe University Library))
Mukden Incident
Japanese-Soviet relations
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Digital Japanese newspaper clippings collection developed by the Kobe University Library, providing open-access to articles from various Japanese newspapers published in the 20th century. Many articles are related to Japanese-Soviet-Chinese relations.
Kobe University Library
Japan
espionage
migration
P.O.W.
communism
Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the website.
National Archives Administration of Taiwan
Mongolia
國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
diplomacy
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
repatriation
Polish-Soviet relations
Integrated digital archival information system of Poland, containing digital copies of materials from various Polish archives. You can find many materials related to the Soviet Union and Polish-Soviet relations on this site.
The National Digital Archives of Poland
Первоисточники (Primary Documents) on Militera
war
Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
Spanish Russian Civil War
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1938) (1939)
Polish campaign (1939)
Bukovina campaign
Bessarabian campaign
entry of troops into the Baltic states (1940)
Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
Allied fight against Japan (1941-1945)
Russian-Japanese War
Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
Oleg Rubetskii
Soviet-Finnish War (1918-1920)
Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1928) (1939)
Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)
Iranian campaign (1941)
Vietnam War
Yugoslav War
Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
Дневники и письма (Diaries and Letters) on Militera
Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
Национальная электронная библиотека Удмуртской Республики (National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic)
national culture
ethnography
Udmurtia
Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
National Library of the Udmurt Republic
Udmurt
Udmurt Republic
Российская Национальная электронная библиотека (National Electronic Library of Russia)
dekulakization
crime
prison
punishment
general
youth
Andrei Belyi
Pitirim Sorokin
emigration
Bulat Okudzhava
Boris Pasternak
Konstantin Bal'mont
Arctic
leisure
literacy
epidemics
nutrition
medics
World War I
health
Vladimir Mayakovaky
chess
Congress of Soviets
Marxim Gorky
natural resource
National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Экспонаты музея политической истории России (Exhibits of the Museum of Political History of Russia)
industrialization
Perestroika
numismatics
New Economic Policy
Digital exhibits of the Museum of the Political History of Russia.
Museum of the Political History of Russia
The link takes one to the page of the Library of Congress collections for the keyword "Soviet Union" filtered by those materials available online. One can also search this library for other keywords using various filters (on the left) in order to narrow the search.
Library of Congress
Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
humanities
Digital library of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing digital copies of Russian and Soviet literary publications, including literary works, literary studies, and literary journals editions, from the imperial period till today.
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Все периодические издания электронной библиотеки "Хроники Приангарья" (All Periodicals of the Electronic Library "Chronicles of Priangarye" )
Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library
Хроники Приангарья: электронная библиотека (Chronicles of Priangarye)
Digital library of Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library, containing a huge number of digital copies of Soviet books, periodicals, and photographs about the Irkutsk region.
Irkutsk Oblast
Газеты периода первой мировой и гражданских войн (Newspapers of the Period of the First World War and the Russian Civil War)
Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
INION RAN and Fond "Istoriia otechestva"
Belarusian
Belarus
Central Asia
Turkestan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Caucasus
Личные фонды видных деятелей Советской эпохи (Personal Fonds of Prominent Figures of the Soviet Period)
political leader
Digitized documents from the personal fond of Stalin from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
История России и СССР (The History of Russia and the USSR)
Collection of digitized books, brochures, and periodicals on Russian and Soviet history from the Karelian Republic.
Electronic Library of the Republic of Karelia
Коллекции электронной библиотеки Тамбовской области (Collections of the Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast)
An electronic library of books, brochures, and periodicals from the Tambov oblast on local history and social, economic, and political life.
Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast
Tambov Oblast
Донская электронная библиотека (Don Electronic Library )
A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
Don State Public Library
Электронная Сибирь: Communities and Collections (Electronic Siberia: Communities and Collections)
Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
Altai Krai V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
Kemerov Oblast V. D. Fedorov Scientific Library
Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
Постигая Алтай. Электронная библиотека Алтая: Коллекции (Understanding Altai: The Electronic Library of Altai: Collections)
academics
veteran
Electronic library of the V. Ia. Shishkov Altai Krai Universal Scientific Library. It contains numerous resources (books, archival documents, maps, etc.) on the local history of Altai Krai, as well as collections of local newspapers.
Altai Region V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
Абхазская интернет-библиотека (Abkhaz Internet-Library)
Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
Abkhaz
Abkhazia
South Caucasus
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S.-Soviet relations
Digital catalog of the National Archives of the United States. Here you can find open-access records from different US governmental agencies on Soviet issues.
National Archives (US)
Das Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv (The Stasi Records Archive)
Stasi
Soviet-East Germany relations
The former East German State Security (Stasi) Archive. Thousands of documents and items are available online now, many of which are related to Soviet-East German relations.
The Stasi Records Archive
famine
Holodomor
Nagorno-Karabakh
insurgency
dissident
Iran-Soviet relations
Brezhnev
Andropov
Chernenko
collapse of the USSR
Verkhovna Rada
OUN
UPA
Jew
diaspora
Babyn Yar
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 former Soviet states.
Richard Hacken
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Estonian
Georgian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Moldova
Digital library that contains more than two thousands digital copies of Soviet-era publications, most of which are literary works and humanities studies.
BiblioRossika
Законодавство України (до 1991 р.) (Legislation of Ukraine (until 1991))
Online database of laws and other types of legal documents adopted in Ukraine from 1983 till 1991.
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine