Пензенская электронная библиотека (Penza Digital Library)
subject: agriculture
subject: art
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: economy
subject: October Revolution
subject: Russian Orthodox Church
subject: history
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: peasantry
subject: kolkhoz
subject: literature
subject: social welfare
subject: poetry
subject: political institution
subject: Party organization
subject: industry
subject: Red Army
subject: music
subject: law
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: sport
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
creator: Penza Oblast Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Penza Oblast
coverage: Russia

Краеведческий интернет-портал "Нижегородская область: страницы истории" (Internet-portal "Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Pages of History")
subject: public health
subject: history
subject: culture
subject: intellectual
subject: industry
subject: education
subject: religion
subject: economy
subject: urban history
subject: Revolution
subject: ecology
subject: environment
subject: Red Army
subject: Komsomol
subject: Maksim Gorgyi
subject: radio
subject: everyday life
subject: literature
subject: Old Believer
subject: theater
subject: political institution
subject: propaganda
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Nizhny Novgorod State Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека - Магаданская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
subject: press
subject: printing
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: borderland
subject: A.G. Kozlov
subject: local study
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: culture
subject: propaganda
subject: nationalities
description: 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.
creator: Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1936-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Magadan Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Kolyma

Электронная библиотека - Воронежская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
subject: social sciences
subject: history
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: public health
subject: agriculture
subject: philology
subject: technology
subject: natural science
description: 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.
creator: Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Voronezh Oblast
coverage: Russia

Пермская электронная библиотека (Perm Digital Library)
subject: travel
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: justice
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: language
subject: cosmos
subject: urban history
subject: local administration
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: climate
subject: environment
subject: ecology
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Perm Krai Gorky Universal Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1701-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Permyak
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Perm Krai
coverage: Russia
coverage: global

Электронная библиотека Республики Карелия (Digital Library of the Republic of Karelia)
subject: astronomy
subject: library
subject: biology
subject: military
subject: geography
subject: geology
subject: land use
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: cartography
subject: literature
subject: mathematics
subject: medicine
subject: science
subject: education
subject: agriculture
subject: political science
subject: politics
subject: law
subject: psychology
subject: religion
subject: mass media
subject: philosophy
subject: folklore
subject: chemistry
subject: economics
subject: linguistics
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: local history
subject: local administration
subject: Russian Orthodox Church
subject: museum
subject: history
subject: sport
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: National Library of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Finnish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Republic of Karelia
coverage: Russia

ЭЛЕКТРОННАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА Петербурга (Digital Library of Petersburg)
subject: music
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: art
subject: fine arts
subject: culture
subject: philosophy
subject: psychology
subject: religion
subject: literature
subject: intellectual
subject: science
subject: history of science
subject: intellectual history
subject: natural science
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Mayakovsky Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1668-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Saint-Petersburg
coverage: global

Электронный библиотека ГПНТБ России (Digital Library of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology)
subject: Amur
subject: architecture
subject: urban planning
subject: astronomy
subject: viticulture
subject: water management
subject: military
subject: geography
subject: geology
subject: history
subject: historiography
subject: culture
subject: medicine
subject: light industry
subject: mathematics
subject: metallurgy
subject: industry
subject: agriculture
subject: Crimea
subject: physics
subject: chemistry
subject: ecology
subject: economics
subject: energy
subject: social sciences
subject: natural science
subject: transportation
description: Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
creator: Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Amur

Электронная библиотека "Научное наследие России" (Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia")
subject: science
subject: Russian Academy of Sciences
subject: history of science
subject: Russian diaspora
subject: archaeology
subject: philosophy
subject: history
subject: historiography
subject: demography
subject: sociology
subject: economics
subject: law
subject: legislation
subject: political science
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: psychology
subject: linguistics
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: religion
subject: mathematics
subject: physics
subject: cybernetics
subject: chemistry
subject: biology
subject: geology
subject: geography
subject: astronomy
subject: automation
subject: metallurgy
subject: nuclear technology
subject: agriculture
subject: fishing
subject: biotechnology
subject: forestry
subject: light industry
subject: water management
subject: housing
subject: medicine
subject: public health
subject: military
subject: statistics
subject: intellectual
subject: scientist
subject: scholar
subject: social sciences
subject: personal narrative
subject: natural science
subject: sport
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: global

Электронные коллекции Российской Национальной Библиотеки (Digital Collections of the Russian National Library)
subject: February Revolution
subject: October Revolution
subject: children
subject: music
subject: art
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: cartography
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: literature
subject: printing
subject: Russian avant-garde
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital collections of Russian National Library that provide open access to extensive pre- and post-1917 publications on a variety of themes.
creator: Russian National Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Europe

75 лет Победы (75 Years of Victory)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: evacuation
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: partisan
subject: guerilla warfare
subject: everyday life
subject: children
subject: industrial development
subject: light industry
subject: sport
subject: culture
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: education
subject: trade
subject: oral history
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Tikhvin
coverage: Kronshtadt

Электронная библиотека Государственного архива Новосибирской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: infrastructure
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: urban history
subject: political institution
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: science
subject: agriculture
subject: women
subject: light industry
subject: October Revolution
subject: children
subject: theater
subject: Soviet-Finnish War
subject: printing
subject: newspaper
subject: periodicals
subject: deportation
subject: Kalmyk
subject: intellectual
subject: collectivization
subject: peasantry
subject: personal narrative
subject: defence
subject: railroad
subject: trans-Siberian railroad
subject: space program
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novosibirsk Oblast
coverage: Novosibirsk
coverage: Russia
coverage: Leningrad
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Omsk
coverage: Tomsk Oblast

Без срока давности (Bez sroka davnosti)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: nazi
subject: Fascism
description: 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.
creator: Poiskovoe dvizhenie Rossii
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1945
format: Digital project
format: Digital document collection
format: Digital collection
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Belgorod Oblast
coverage: Bryansk Oblast
coverage: Volgograd Oblast
coverage: Voronezh Oblast
coverage: Kalmykia
coverage: Kaluga Oblast
coverage: Republic of Karelya
coverage: Krasnodar Krai
coverage: Crimea
coverage: Sevastopol
coverage: Kursk Oblast
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Moscow
coverage: Moscow Oblast
coverage: Novgorod Oblast
coverage: Oryol Oblast
coverage: Pskov Oblast
coverage: Rostov Oblast
coverage: North Caucasus
coverage: Smolensk Oblast
coverage: Stavropol Krai
coverage: Tver Oblast
coverage: Tula Oblast
coverage: Germany
coverage: Lipetsk Oblast

Full Listing of Ancillary Editor Project Documents (Stalin Digital Archive)
subject: Great Terror
subject: Revolution
subject: Far East
subject: Stalin
description: Documents selected as ancillary material the Editor Projects associated with the Stalin Digital Archive.
creator: Yale University Press
creator: Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1878-1953
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified
subject: 1956 Polish Crisis
subject: foreign policy
subject: international relations
subject: Polish crisis
subject: Cold War
subject: nuclear power
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: hockey
subject: sport
subject: Cuban missile crisis
subject: East German uprising
subject: Somalia
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Africa
subject: Ogaden War
subject: Ethiopian-Somali conflict
subject: India
subject: nuclear proliferation
subject: Surveillance/espionage
subject: Interkit
subject: Iran
subject: Katyn Massacre
subject: Poland
subject: nationalities policy
subject: media
subject: censorship
subject: political police
subject: destalinization
subject: Yugoslavia
subject: Hungary
subject: KGB
subject: radio
subject: CIA
subject: Radio Free Europe
subject: Warsaw Pact
subject: invasion of Afghanistan
subject: Prague spring
subject: space race
subject: Algeria
subject: Horn of Africa
subject: Yi-Ta Incident
subject: politburo
subject: invasion of Czechoslovakia
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
subject: Khrushchev
subject: Olympic Games
subject: Stalin
subject: Soviet-North Korean relations
description: Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
creator: Woodrow Wilson Center
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-2010
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: Chinese
language: English
language: German
language: Albanian
language: Arabic
language: Bulgarian
language: Czech
language: Finnish
language: French
language: Hebrew
language: Hungarian
language: Japanese
language: Korean
language: Mongolian
language: Romanian
language: Serbo-Croatian
language: Slovak
language: Spanish
language: Turkish
language: Ukrainian
language: Vietnamese
language: Polish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронный архив В. И. Вернадского (Electronic Archive of V. I. Vernadskii)
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: scholarship
subject: bibliography
subject: mineralogy
subject: geochemistry
subject: personal narrative
subject: Vladimir Vernadsky
description: Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
creator: Vladimir Vernadsky Digital Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1945
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine

André Savine Collection
subject: White Army
subject: emigre
subject: André Savine
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Libraries
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1983
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

NATO Archives Online
subject: NATO
subject: military
subject: Cold War
subject: security
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: intelligence
subject: economy
subject: Soviet bloc
subject: arms control
subject: foreign relations
description: NATO's digital archive, containing thousands of declassified or unclassified NATO memorandum, analytical reports, and other types of documents regarding the Soviet Union.
creator: NATO Archives Online
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1949-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA
coverage: UK
coverage: France
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Germany

中文马克思主义文库 (Chinese-language Marxist Full-text Database)
subject: ideology
subject: internationalism
subject: Leninism
subject: Marxism
subject: Comintern
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: anti-Revisionism
subject: foreign policy
subject: Sino-Soviet split
subject: Stalin
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: personal narrative
subject: foreign relations
description: 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.
creator: Marxists Internet Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
format: Digital library
language: Chinese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

KGB Documents Online Project
subject: KGB
subject: secret police
subject: nationalism
subject: censorship
subject: Communism
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: security service
description: Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
creator: The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Baltics
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Latvia

Государственный архив Алтайского края (State Archive of Altai Krai)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Altai Region
subject: orphanage
subject: children
subject: evacuation
subject: industry
subject: culture
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Aleksandr Rodionov
subject: fire department
subject: Viktor Sadchikov
subject: theater
subject: agriculture
subject: economics
subject: virgin lands campaign
description: The official website of the State Archive of the Altai Krai, which provides free access to numerous digitized archival materials from the archive.
creator: State Archive of Altai Krai
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai

Виртуальный музей ГУЛАГа (Virtual Gulag museum)
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Terror
subject: deportation
subject: children
subject: memory
subject: political repression
subject: personal narrative
subject: purge
description: Digital museum presenting thousands of exhibits, archival documents, and photographs on the history of Gulag and Soviet political repression.
creator: Fond Iofe
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1918-1960
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Kazakhstan

Электронный архив научно-информационного центра "Фонд Иофе" (Санкт-Петербург) (Electronic Archive of the Scientific-informational Center "Iofe Fond" (Saint Petersburg))
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Terror
subject: memory
subject: opposition
subject: human rights
subject: civil society
subject: intellectual
subject: deportation
subject: NKVD
subject: feminist movement
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Fond Iofe
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1987
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: China
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: Kazakhstan

新聞記事文庫 (神戸大学附属図書館) (Newspaper Clippings Collection (Kobe University Library))
subject: Mukden Incident
subject: Japanese-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: trade
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
description: 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.
creator: Kobe University Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1912-1970
format: Digital library
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Japan
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: China
coverage: Manchuria

國家檔案資訊網 (Archives Access service)
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: intelligence
subject: espionage
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: migration
subject: P.O.W.
subject: communism
subject: White Army
description: 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.
creator: National Archives Administration of Taiwan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Japan
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: USA
coverage: UK

國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
subject: Manchuria
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Comintern
subject: communism
subject: trade
subject: diplomacy
subject: law
subject: foreign policy
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: Chinese migrants
subject: Xinjiang
subject: migration
subject: espionage
subject: propaganda
subject: White Army
subject: legal source
description: 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.
creator: Academia Historica (Taiwan)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Chinese
language: English
language: Japanese
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: China
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Japan
coverage: Mongolia
coverage: Manchuria
coverage: USA
coverage: UK

Szukaj w Archiwach (Search in Archives)
subject: Soviet bloc
subject: repatriation
subject: foreign relations
subject: Red Army
subject: culture
subject: diplomacy
subject: Polish-Soviet relations
description: 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.
creator: The National Digital Archives of Poland
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1945-1989
format: Digital archive
language: Polish
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Poland
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: USSR

Первоисточники (Primary Documents) on Militera
subject: military
subject: war
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
subject: Spanish Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Japanese conflict (1938) (1939)
subject: Polish campaign (1939)
subject: Bukovina campaign
subject: Bessarabian campaign
subject: entry of troops into the Baltic states (1940)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
subject: Allied fight against Japan (1941-1945)
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
subject: Russian-Japanese War
description: Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
creator: Oleg Rubetskii
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe

Мемуары (Memoirs) on Militera
subject: military
subject: war
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
subject: Soviet-Finnish War (1918-1920)
subject: Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
subject: Spanish Russian Civil War
subject: Polish campaign (1939)
subject: Soviet-Japanese conflict (1928) (1939)
subject: Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)
subject: Bessarabian campaign
subject: Iranian campaign (1941)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
subject: Vietnam War
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Yugoslav War
subject: personal narrative
subject: Bukovina campaign
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Russian-Japanese War
description: Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
creator: Oleg Rubetskii
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe

Дневники и письма (Diaries and Letters) on Militera
subject: military
subject: war
subject: Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
subject: Spanish Russian Civil War
subject: Polish campaign (1939)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
subject: Vietnam War
subject: Yugoslav War
subject: personal narrative
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Russian-Japanese War
description: Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
creator: Oleg Rubetskii
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2000
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Europe

Национальная электронная библиотека Удмуртской Республики (National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic)
subject: nationalities
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: culture
subject: politics
subject: national culture
subject: history
subject: local study
subject: language
subject: ethnography
subject: folklore
subject: Udmurtia
description: Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
creator: National Library of the Udmurt Republic
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Udmurt
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Udmurt Republic

Российская Национальная электронная библиотека (National Electronic Library of Russia)
subject: collectivization
subject: dekulakization
subject: Crimea
subject: railroad
subject: crime
subject: justice
subject: Gulag
subject: prison
subject: punishment
subject: general
subject: culture
subject: poetry
subject: youth
subject: Andrei Belyi
subject: Pitirim Sorokin
subject: emigration
subject: music
subject: Bulat Okudzhava
subject: Boris Pasternak
subject: Konstantin Bal'mont
subject: Arctic
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: leisure
subject: education
subject: literacy
subject: medicine
subject: epidemics
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Leningrad Blockade
subject: nutrition
subject: military
subject: medics
subject: art
subject: Revolution
subject: foreign policy
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: health
subject: Vladimir Mayakovaky
subject: chess
subject: Congress of Soviets
subject: Marxim Gorky
subject: natural resource
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: National Electronic Library of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Экспонаты музея политической истории России (Exhibits of the Museum of Political History of Russia)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: numismatics
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Digital exhibits of the Museum of the Political History of Russia.
creator: Museum of the Political History of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1519-2000
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Library of Congress
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: Library of Congress
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
subject: literature
subject: humanities
subject: folklore
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR

Все периодические издания электронной библиотеки "Хроники Приангарья" (All Periodicals of the Electronic Library "Chronicles of Priangarye" )
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
creator: Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1857-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Хроники Приангарья: электронная библиотека (Chronicles of Priangarye)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: local study
subject: local history
subject: ecology
subject: environment
subject: New Economic Policy
description: 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.
creator: Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Irkutsk Oblast
coverage: Russia
coverage: Siberia

Газеты периода первой мировой и гражданских войн (Newspapers of the Period of the First World War and the Russian Civil War)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
description: Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
creator: INION RAN and Fond "Istoriia otechestva"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1914-1922
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
language: Belarusian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Turkestan
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Far East
coverage: Siberia
coverage: Caucasus
coverage: Baltics

Личные фонды видных деятелей Советской эпохи (Personal Fonds of Prominent Figures of the Soviet Period)
subject: political leader
subject: political institution
subject: Stalin
description: Digitized documents from the personal fond of Stalin from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1878-1953
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

История России и СССР (The History of Russia and the USSR)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Collection of digitized books, brochures, and periodicals on Russian and Soviet history from the Karelian Republic.
creator: Electronic Library of the Republic of Karelia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Republic of Karelia

Коллекции электронной библиотеки Тамбовской области (Collections of the Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: An electronic library of books, brochures, and periodicals from the Tambov oblast on local history and social, economic, and political life.
creator: Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Tambov Oblast

Донская электронная библиотека (Don Electronic Library )
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: science
subject: agriculture
subject: forestry
subject: health
subject: medicine
subject: culture
subject: social sciences
subject: humanities
subject: literature
subject: natural science
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
creator: Don State Public Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Rostov Oblast

Электронная Сибирь: Communities and Collections (Electronic Siberia: Communities and Collections)
subject: World War I
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
subject: political repression
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Cold War
subject: Perestroika
subject: general
subject: New Economic Policy
description: Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
creator: Altai Krai V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
creator: Kemerov Oblast V. D. Fedorov Scientific Library
creator: Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
creator: Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai

Постигая Алтай. Электронная библиотека Алтая: Коллекции (Understanding Altai: The Electronic Library of Altai: Collections)
subject: agriculture
subject: economy
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: scholarship
subject: academics
subject: World War I
subject: personal narrative
subject: veteran
subject: virgin lands campaign
description: 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.
creator: Altai Region V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-2022
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Altai Krai

Абхазская интернет-библиотека (Abkhaz Internet-Library)
subject: culture
subject: local history
subject: history
subject: ethnography
subject: nationalities
subject: religion
subject: language
subject: linguistics
subject: literature
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
subject: economy
subject: law
subject: science
subject: art
subject: children
subject: local study
subject: personal narrative
subject: natural science
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Abkhaz
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Abkhazia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: South Caucasus

National Archives Catalog (US)
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Cold War
subject: intelligence
subject: military
subject: space race
subject: security
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: Soviet bloc
subject: diplomacy
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: defence
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: 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.
creator: National Archives (US)
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Eastern Europe

Das Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv (The Stasi Records Archive)
subject: Stasi
subject: secret police
subject: intelligence
subject: security service
subject: Soviet-East Germany relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
description: 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.
creator: The Stasi Records Archive
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1950-1989
format: Digital archive
language: German
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Germany
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

EuroDocs
subject: political institution
subject: economy
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: everyday life
subject: Revolution
subject: Party organization
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: communism
subject: Stalin
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: collectivization
subject: deportation
subject: nationalities
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: intellectual
subject: political leader
subject: famine
subject: Holodomor
subject: Nagorno-Karabakh
subject: insurgency
subject: dissident
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Iran-Soviet relations
subject: Cold War
subject: Red Army
subject: KGB
subject: intelligence
subject: secret police
subject: security service
subject: Khrushchev
subject: Brezhnev
subject: Andropov
subject: Chernenko
subject: collapse of the USSR
subject: Verkhovna Rada
subject: OUN
subject: UPA
subject: Jew
subject: diaspora
subject: Chernobyl
subject: partisan
subject: language
subject: personal narrative
subject: White Army
subject: Babyn Yar
subject: emigre
subject: Perestroika
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Richard Hacken
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
language: Armenian
language: Azerbaijani
language: Estonian
language: Georgian
language: Lithuanian
language: Romanian
language: Latvian
language: Polish
language: Hungarian
language: Czech
language: German
language: Belarusian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Estonia

БиблиоРоссика (BiblioRossika)
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: humanities
subject: printing
subject: art
subject: music
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library that contains more than two thousands digital copies of Soviet-era publications, most of which are literary works and humanities studies.
creator: BiblioRossika
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Законодавство України (до 1991 р.) (Legislation of Ukraine (until 1991))
subject: law
subject: local administration
subject: legislation
subject: political institution
subject: legal source
description: Online database of laws and other types of legal documents adopted in Ukraine from 1983 till 1991.
creator: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1983-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: USSR