Е-Архів - Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів (E-archive of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv)
subject: general
subject: local history
subject: political institution
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: OUN-UPA
subject: foreign relations
subject: religion
description: 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.
creator: Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
language: Polish
language: Russian
language: Hungarian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Lviv

Электронные ресурсы центрального архива Министерства обороны РФ (Digital Resources of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Tehran Conference
subject: memory
subject: military
subject: personal narrative
description: Online exhibitions, databases, and listings of documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. The resources are mostly dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
creator: Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-1945
format: Online exhibition
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus

Электронная библиотека государственного архива социально-политической истории Тюменской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Socio-Political History of Tyumen Oblast)
subject: local history
subject: political institution
subject: Red Army
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: administrative-territorial division
description: A digital collection consisting of early Soviet periodicals in Tyumen and a book on the history of administrative-territorial delimitation in Tyumen oblast.
creator: State Archive of Socio-Political History of Tyumen Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital document collection
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tyumen Oblast
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека государственного архива Тюменской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Tyumen Oblast)
subject: Red Army
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: geography
subject: science
subject: history
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
subject: administrative-territorial division
subject: literature & arts
description: A collection of digital copies of old books and document collections prepared by the State Archive of Tyumen Oblast.
creator: State Archive of Tyumen Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital document collection
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tyumen Oblast
coverage: Russia

Электронный каталог государственных архивов Новгородской области (Electronic Catalog of State Archives of Novgorod Oblast)
subject: general
subject: local history
subject: political institution
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Great Patriotic War
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Novgorod Oblast
creator: State Archive of Contemporary History of Novgorod Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Novgorod Oblast
coverage: Russia

Публикация Московского областного архивного центра (Publications of Moscow Oblast Archival Center)
subject: famine
subject: children
subject: everyday life
subject: astronautics
subject: women
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: leisure
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: literacy
subject: education
subject: religion
subject: festival
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: literature & arts
description: Online exhibitions and digital document collections published by the Moscow Oblast Archival Center.
creator: Moscow Oblast Archival Center
source: Link to the Resource
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital document collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Moscow Oblast
coverage: Russia

Архивы Ленинградской области (Archive of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: political institution
subject: urban history
subject: history
subject: trade
subject: commerce
subject: economy
subject: women
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: collectivization
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: family
subject: political repression
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: Archival information portal for archives in Leningrad Oblast. You can find useful sources under "Projects" (on homepage), "Thematic Databases" (under the "LOGAV" tab), and "Electronic Exhibitions" sections.
creator: Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
format: Online exhibition
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

Электронные выставки архивов Ленинградской области (Digital Exhibitions of the Archives of Leningrad Oblast)
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: political institution
subject: urban history
subject: history
subject: trade
subject: commerce
subject: economy
subject: women
subject: education
subject: theater
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: collectivization
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: family
subject: Kronstadt Rebellion
subject: New Economic Policy
subject: literature & arts
description: Numerous well-organized online exhibits of archival documents from Leningrad oblast, covering various topics in the region's history.
creator: Archival Administration of Leningrad Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Leningrad Oblast
coverage: Russia

Выставки Агентства по делам архивов Астраханской области (Exhibitions of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast)/Old Version
subject: industry
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: education
subject: women
subject: press
subject: pioneer organization
subject: religion
subject: law
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
subject: personal narrative
subject: legal source
description: Online exhibits on the old website of the Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast.
creator: Agency on Archival Affairs of Astrakhan Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Astrakhan Oblast
coverage: Russia

Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Soviet Posters
subject: health
subject: children
subject: women
subject: collectivization
subject: agriculture
subject: labor
subject: religion
description: Over 150 propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union (1920s-1930s). These posters have been digitized and the images placed in a database with information about each poster. The text included in some of the posters has been translated into English.
creator: Swarthmore College
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1940
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Soviet Anti-Bureaucracy Posters
subject: bureaucratism
subject: satire
subject: art
subject: literature & arts
description: 140 posters, Krokodil covers, and clippings, most created by members of the Fighting Pencil (Boevoi karandash) artists’ collective, satirizing bureaucratic abuses and inefficiencies during the last decades of the Soviet period.
creator: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Федеральная электронная медицинская библиотека (Federal Digital Medical Library of Russia)
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: science
subject: scholarship
description: 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.
creator: Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Национальная электронная библиотека Кыргызстана (National Digital Library of Kyrgyzstan)
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: children
subject: scholarship
subject: archaeology
subject: history
subject: geography
subject: literature
subject: national culture
subject: literature & arts
description: A digital library consisting of digitized records from different libraries in Kyrgyzstan.
creator: Republican Library for Children and Youth named after K. Baialinov
source: Link to the Resource
date: ?-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Kyrgyz
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Central Asia

Archive of film and photo documents (RU) YouTube Channel
subject: architecture
subject: public health
subject: education
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: religion
subject: festival
subject: leisure
subject: pandemic
subject: sport
description: The official YouTube channel of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, currently containing more than 160 historical movie clips.
creator: Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: YouTube channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Государственный реестр уникальных документов архивного фонда РФ (State Listing of Unique Documents from the Archival Fond of the Russian Federation)
subject: law
subject: Constitution
subject: education
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: urban planning
subject: political institution
subject: technology
subject: infrastructure
subject: film
subject: partisan
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: legal source
description: 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.
creator: Federal Archival Agency of Russia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Базы данных онлайн - Российский государственный архив в г. Самаре (Online Databases of the Russian State Archive in Samara)
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: scholarship
subject: intellectual
subject: aviation
subject: astronautics
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: local history
description: Several databases on repressed Soviet technical intelligentsia, prominent figures in the Soviet aviation and aerospace industries, and scholars of Samara, based on archival documents from the Russian State Archive in Samara.
creator: Russian State Archive in Samara
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Samara
coverage: Russia

Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan
subject: culture
subject: local history
subject: local administration
subject: national culture
subject: science
subject: intellectual
subject: urban history
subject: healthcare
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: education
subject: nationalities
description: Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, covering various topics in local history.
creator: State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tatarstan
coverage: Russia

Электронная библиотека Национальной библиотеки Республики Татарстан (Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan)
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: education
subject: economy
subject: political institution
subject: national culture
subject: local administration
subject: local history
subject: urban history
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: language
subject: ecology
subject: nationalities
description: 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.
creator: National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: Tatar
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Tatarstan
coverage: Russia

National Archives of Armenia YouTube Channel
subject: film
subject: everyday life
subject: national culture
subject: memory
subject: art
subject: diaspora
subject: foreign relations
subject: repatriation
subject: intellectual
subject: Martiros Sarian
subject: culture
subject: leisure
subject: sport
subject: literature & arts
description: The official YouTube channel of the National Archives of Armenia, where you can find numerous Soviet Armenian films, cartoons, and video clips from the Soviet era.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1926-1989
format: YouTube channel
language: Armenian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Armenia
coverage: South Caucasus

East of GMT Twitter Account
subject: propaganda
subject: art
subject: architecture
subject: design
subject: literature & arts
description: A Twitter account that shares 20th-century photography, architecture & design of Central and Eastern Europe.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Other social media
format: Social media
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

Eastern European Cartoon General Twitter Account
subject: propaganda
subject: art
subject: children
subject: cartoon
subject: film
subject: literature & arts
description: A Twitter account that shares clips of Soviet and Eastern European animation.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-post-1991
format: Other social media
format: Social media
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

Soviet Visuals Twitter Account
subject: propaganda
subject: art
subject: architecture
subject: design
subject: literature & arts
description: A Twitter account that shares Soviet photographs, architecture & design, and USSR propaganda art.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Other social media
format: Social media
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe

Психоделия по-советски (Soviet Psychedelia) Telegram Channel
subject: psychedelia
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: underground art
subject: literature & arts
description: A Telegram channel that shares Soviet psychedelic artwork, including paintings, cartoons, caricatures, posters, etc.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books) Telegram Channel
subject: culture
subject: book
subject: printing
subject: music
subject: science
subject: politics
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: folklore
subject: propaganda
subject: scholarship
subject: technology
subject: police
subject: political institution
subject: religion
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Советские учебники (Soviet textbooks) Telegram Channel
subject: education
subject: school
subject: children
subject: youth
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: literacy
subject: literature
subject: literature & arts
description: A Telegram channel that shares digitized Soviet textbooks.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Igor Casu (Academia.edu)
subject: KGB
subject: secret police
subject: security service
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign relations
subject: Soviet-Romanian relations
subject: political repression
description: Moldavian historian Igor Casu's Academia.edu page, where he has shared many document collections and original archival documents on KGB activities in the Moldavian SSR, Soviet-Romanian relations, and other subjects.
creator: Igor Casu
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1941-1991
format: Other social media
format: Digital document collection
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: Romanian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Romania

История пропаганды (History of Propaganda)
subject: propaganda
subject: World War Ⅰ
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: World War Ⅱ
description: A website dedicated to the history of propaganda around the world in all historical periods. The website contains a section on Soviet propaganda, where many primary source materials are presented.
creator: Oleg Tarasov
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: other
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Russia
coverage: Far East
coverage: Southeast Asia
coverage: Europe
coverage: Africa
coverage: Eastern Europe

humus Live Journal Page
subject: everyday life
subject: urban history
subject: foreign relations
subject: travel
subject: cartography
subject: celebrity
description: A LiveJournal blog that has shared numerous imperial Russian and Soviet photographs, maps, as well as other materials.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: LiveJournal blog
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: global

Игорь Петров (Igor Petrov) LiveJournal Page
subject: Soviet-German relations
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: army
subject: military
subject: political institution
subject: education
subject: politics
subject: economy
subject: industry
subject: health
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: P.O.W.
description: The LiveJournal blog of Igor Petrov, an independent historian living in Germany. In this blog he often posts translated archival documents and other types of primary source materials, often translated into Russian from Germen by himself, on various topics in Soviet history. His posts are often related to the Second World War.
creator: Igor Petrov
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: LiveJournal blog
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany

STATEHISTORY LiveJournal Page
subject: history
subject: politics
subject: political institution
subject: political leader
subject: propaganda
subject: general
description: LiveJournal page of a website "Istoriia gosudarstva", dedicated to the study of Russian and Soviet history. The LiveJournal blog often shares primary source materials on various topics.
creator: Istoriia gosudarstva
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: LiveJournal blog
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Central Asia

Книги и журналы по военной истории (Books and journals on military history) VK Group
subject: history
subject: military
subject: scholarship
subject: historiography
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: war
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1960-post-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: Russia

Становление Человека (Becoming a Human) VK Group
subject: literature
subject: education
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: children
subject: art
subject: communism
subject: folklore
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: music
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

ЗНАНИЕ — СИЛА / Советские книги для всех (Knowledge - Power / Soviet books for all) VK Group
subject: education
subject: printing
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: scholarship
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: politics
subject: children
subject: popular science
subject: technology
subject: history
subject: military
subject: psychology
subject: pedagogy
subject: biology
subject: chemistry
subject: geography
subject: physics
subject: astronomy
subject: medicine
subject: economics
subject: law
subject: language
subject: philology
subject: folklore
subject: ideology
subject: Leninism
subject: Marxism
subject: natural science
subject: sport
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares digitized Soviet books on a variety of topics.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Научно- Популярное и Документальное кино СССР (Popsci and Documentary Films of the USSR) VK Group
subject: education
subject: media
subject: science
subject: culture
subject: popular science
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: astronautics
subject: aviation
subject: military
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: documentary
subject: history
subject: art
subject: political leader
subject: medicine
subject: health
subject: travel
subject: nature
subject: industry
subject: politics
subject: scholarship
subject: sport
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares popular science, documentary, and educational films of the USSR.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: global

Цифровая история (Digital history) VK Group
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Stalinism
subject: Cold War
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Red Army
subject: military
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Stalin
subject: Khrushchev
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Советский альманах (Soviet almanac) VK Group
subject: film
subject: culture
subject: music
subject: radio
subject: leisure
subject: art
subject: children
subject: media
subject: propaganda
subject: everyday life
subject: television
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet films, cartoons, TV and radio shows, music, photographs, paintings, and works of literature.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Буряадай уран зохёолой юртэмсэ/Литературный мир Бурятии (Literary world of Buryatia) VK Group
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: intellectual
subject: art
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: theater
subject: folklore
subject: nationalities
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-post-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: Mongolian
language: Buryat
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Buryatia
coverage: Russia

Советская Бурятия (Soviet Buryatia) VK Group
subject: local history
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: national culture
subject: urban history
subject: folklore
subject: film
subject: ethnography
subject: intellectual
subject: infrastructure
subject: education
subject: nationalities
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares Soviet-era documents, TV programs, movies, photographs, and publications about Buryatia.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Buryatia
coverage: Russia

Хранилище. Историческая литература. Книги. (Repository. Historical literature. Books) VK Group
subject: literature
subject: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
subject: political institution
subject: culture
subject: foreign policy
subject: foreign relations
subject: science
subject: religion
subject: Russian Civil War
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: political leader
subject: general
subject: ethnography
subject: history
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: nationalities
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: global

«Еврейские герои» (Jewish heroes) Telegram Channel
subject: Jewish
subject: anti-Semitism
subject: political repression
subject: dissident
subject: nationalities
description: "Jewish Heroes" is a project that shares information about Jewish people who struggled against the Soviet regime. The project's Telegram channel shares original archival materials about these Jewish people.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Telegram channel
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Soviet Film Posters Facebook Group
subject: film
subject: art
subject: propaganda
subject: cinema
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: A Facebook group that shares Soviet film posters, always with annotations on sources and contexts.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1991
format: Facebook page
format: Social media
language: Russian
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Из газетного архива (и других архивов) (From the newspaper archive and other archives) Facebook Group
subject: propaganda
subject: general
subject: politics
subject: press
subject: everyday life
subject: foreign relations
description: A Facebook group where members share clippings from Soviet newspapers and other types of publications. Sometimes group members also share archival documents on various topics.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Facebook page
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Sergey Prudovskiy Facebook Page
subject: political repression
subject: Gulag
subject: Great Terror
subject: memory
description: Facebook page of Sergey Prudovskiy, a Russian historian and a former staff member of International Memorial. He is the administrator of a Facebook group "Remembering the GULAG" and often posts images of Soviet archival documents on Soviet political repressions.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Facebook page
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

ВѢДИ (Know) VK Group
subject: general
subject: education
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: agriculture
subject: scholarship
subject: history
subject: folklore
subject: culinary art
subject: health
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Клуб левых историков и обществоведов (Club of Left Historians and Social Scientists) VK Group
subject: Lenin
subject: Leninism
subject: political leader
subject: memory
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: Communism
subject: Party organization
subject: political institution
subject: Stalin
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Общество распространения полезных книг (Society for Promoting Helpful Books)
subject: culture
subject: book
subject: printing
subject: music
subject: science
subject: politics
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: folklore
subject: propaganda
subject: scholarship
subject: technology
subject: police
subject: political institution
subject: religion
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Central Asia

Avant-garde archives VK Group
subject: avant-garde
subject: art
subject: literature
subject: Mayakovsky
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares works of Russian and Soviet avant-garde (paintings, literature, book design, and other forms of art).
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Соцреализм (Socialist realism) VK Group
subject: socialist realism
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: propaganda
subject: literature & arts
description: A VK (V Kontakte) group that shares artwork of socialist realism of the Soviet Union.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Гостелерадиофонд (Gosteleradiofond) VK Group
subject: radio
subject: leisure
subject: culture
subject: late socialism
subject: cartoon
subject: film
subject: television
description: The official VK page of the Russian State Fond of Television and Radio Programs, where you can find numerous video and audio materials of the Soviet era.
creator: Gosteleradiofond
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1950-post-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

СОВЕТСКИЙ ЭКРАН (Soviet Screen) VK Group
subject: film
subject: cinema
subject: cartoon
subject: culture
subject: art
subject: leisure
subject: television
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Larisa Kravchenko
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1991
format: VK group
format: Social media
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR