history
Digital copy of historian Omeljan Pritsak's inaugural lecture on the Origin of Rus' at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 1975, shared by Steven Seegel on Twitter.
Omeljan Pritsak
Link to the Resource
1975
Digital collection
Other social media
Social media
English
USA
Russia
Ukraine
law
foreign relations
economy
propaganda
Russian Revolution
communism
political institution
KGB
intelligence
Jewish
general
World War Ⅱ
U.S.-Soviet relations
legal source
Open-access digital collections of Harvard Library, containing many digitized books, periodicals, maps, archival documents, photographs, and other types of primary source materials for researching Soviet history in various languages.
Harvard Library
Digital library
Russian
Polish
French
Persian
German
Chinese
Yiddish
Spanish
Bulgarian
Ukrainian
Hebrew
USSR
China
France
Germany
global
Operation SOLO
Cold War
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977. The records of the operation released by the FBI range from March 1958 to April 1966.
FBI
Digital archive
Eastern Europe
Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
Soviet-Hungarian relations
Soviet-Afghan War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sino-Soviet relations
ideology
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Archival collections of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest contain Hungarian documents on the Soviet bloc, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sino-Soviet relations, Soviet-Afghan War, and other Cold War issues. Documents have been translated into English.
Corvinus University of Budapest
Hungary
Vietnam
North Korea
Cuba
Afghanistan
Nuremberg Trials
Nazi
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.
Harvard Law School Library
Digital project
Памятники жертвам политических репрессий, установленные на территории бывшего СССР (Monuments for the Victims of Political Repressions on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union)
political repression
monument
Holodomor
famine
Great Terror
Gulag
Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Sakharov Center
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Belarus
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Published Research of the RAND Corporation
technology
dissident
perestroika
Gorbachev
late socialism
science
foreign policy
Soviet-Vietnamese relations
arms control
Soviet-Japanese relations
military
nationalities
collapse of the USSR
Stalin
industrial development
Khrushchev
nuclear war
Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
RAND Corporation
Korea
Xinjiang
Yugoslavia
Електронна бібліотека української літератури (Electronic library of Ukrainian Literature)
literature
culture
national culture
literature & arts
Digital library of Ukrainian literature maintained by Maxim Tarnawsky, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The library provides free access to digital copies of Ukrainian literary works published in different periods.
University of Toronto
labor
camp
karlag
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
Siberia
Антисоветская Электронная Библиотека: исторические материалы и книги (Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books)
samizdat
anti-Soviet
everyday life
personal narrative
Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
British-Soviet relations
broadcast
Marshall Aid
Korean War
Prague Spring
Tehran Conference
A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
National Archives of the United Kingdom
Czechoslovakia
Сталин И.В. Сочинения: Т. 1–18. (I.V. Stalin's Works: V.1-18.)
Stalinism
nationalism
agriculture
industrialization
political leader
peasantry
Great Patriotic War
Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
Library of Mikhail Grachev
Caucasus
Полное собрание сочинений Ленина (Full Collection of Lenin's Works)
Revolution
statehood
Marxism
Leninism
Lenin
imperialism
capitalism
Party organization
socialism
religion
Digitized full collection of Lenin's works in 55 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles.
Materialisticheskaia dialektika
Библиография трудов Д.С. Лихачева (Bibliography of Works of D.C. Likhachev)
Dmitry Likhachev
intellectual
celebrity
philology
linguistics
An online bibliography of works of Dmitry Likhachev, with links to downloadable PDF copies.
Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Интернет-проекты Горбачев Фонда (Internet-projects of the Gorbachev Foundation)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Gorbacheva
public opinion
August Coup
Several digital projects of the Gorbachev Foundation focusing on the collapse of the USSR and the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, largely based on personal accounts and old photographs.
The Gorbachev Foundation
Научное наследие М.М. Герасимова (Academic Legacy of M.M. Gerasimov)
anthropology
archaeology
sculpture
Mikhail Gerasimov
Digital project dedicated to Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. On the website, you can download the digital copies of his major works and browse photos, videos, and documents about the scholar.
Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"
Central Asia
Irkutsk
КЫРГЫЗСКИЙ ФОТОАРХИВ (Kyrgyz Photo Archive)
photography
art
Kyrgyz
historiography
environment
Digital project of the Union of Photo Journalists of Kyrgyzstan. On the website you can find thousands of well-annotated historical photographs of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz people. Besides, the website also has a book section and a map section, where you can download digital copies of old books and maps.
Union of Photojournalists of Kyrgyzstan
Turkestan
Dziga Vertov
cinema
film
Digital collection of films, writings, photographs, posters, and other materials relating to (and created by) the Soviet filmmaking pioneer and theorist Dziga Vertov (1896–1954).
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Тамиздат: Русская литература за пределами СССР в электронном архиве документов (1956-1991) (Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature across Borders: An Online Archive of Documents (1956-1991))
diaspora
book
press
printing
Tamizdat Project traces the history of circulation, first publications, and reception of contraband Russian literature outside the USSR by making a rich variety of relevant sources available to the international academic community and students worldwide. Here you can find information about authors, their works, publishers, critics, and reviewers. Many publications can be read online from the website.
Italy
Netherlands
Israel
Журнал «Советская музыка» (Journal "Soviet Music")
music
Digital archive of the journal "Soviet Music" from 1933 till 1991.
Union of Composers of the USSR
Ministry of Culture of the USSR
ЗВУКОВЫЕ АРХИВЫ: Европейская Память о Гулаге (Sound Archives: European Memories of the Gulag)
World War II
deportation
women
hunger
From 1939 to 1953, nearly a million people from the European territories annexed by the USSR were deported to the Gulag. This digital project is a compilation of testimony from former deportees, photographs taken during their lives, private and public archival material, and films, collected by an international team of researchers. The website links to a database of more than 180 interviews and is an invitation to explore the history of the Stalinist deportations via thematic and biographical presentations, research articles, and, in the immediate future, educational virtual tours, maps, and an illustrated timeline.
Radio France Internationale (RFI)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Centre d'études des mondes russe caucasien et centre-européen
Poland
Հայաստանի Ամերիկեան համալսարանի Հայ մատենագրութեան թուանշանային գրադարան (Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia)
Armenology
philosophy
theology
pedagogy
ethnography
health
geography
travel
translation
journalism
Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia
Armenian
Архивные online проекты - Портал Архивы России (Online Archival Projects - Portal "Archives of Russia")
P.O.W.
Georgii Malenkov
Polish-Soviet War
Crimea
Alexei Kosygin
Munich Agreement
Stalingrad
sputnik
Brezhnev
Andropov
Nuremberg trials
OUN
UIA
Yuri Gagarin
A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
Portal "Archives of Russia"
Online exhibition
Khabarovsk
Japan
celebration
children
army
aeroflot
Collection of Soviet postcards from different periods and regions.
Бюллетень Оппозиции (большевиков-ленинцев) (Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninist))
Trotsky
Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
Fourth International
class struggle
Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) was a Russian-language journal (printed in Cyrillic characters) launched by Leon Trotsky in July 1929 after his expulsion from the USSR. It was the printed organ of the Russian section of the Fourth International and a weapon of Trotsky in his struggle with Stalin.
Iskra-Research
Возрождение 1925-1939 (Vozrozhdenie 1925-1939)
anti-Communist
Vozrozhdenie was a Russian-language daily newspaper published in Paris, France, founded in 1925. The newspaper was anti-Communist and circulated amongst the Russian diaspora around the world.
Princeton University Library
Афганистан 1979-1989 (Afghanistan 1979-1989)
A great number of declassified archival documents on Soviet policy towards Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
National Security Archive, George Washington University
Жертвы политического террора в СССР (Victims of Soviet Political Repressions)
secret police
security service
A huge database of victims of Soviet political repressions developed by the International Memorial.
Memorial
Online database
Кадровый состав органов государственной безопасности СССР. 1935−1939 (The Personnel of the NKVD in the 1930s)
NKVD
Online database developed by the International Memorial, providing information about the personnel of the Soviet NKVD during 1935 and 1939.
Moldova
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Архив расписаний передач телеканалов и радио (Archive of the Programs of Television Channels and Radio)
media
radio
television
leisure
A collection of TV and radio programs in Russia, the former Soviet Union, as well as other world countries from 1950 till today. Data on Russia are the most comprehensive, while data on other countries are inconsistent.
Czechoslovaks in the Gulag (Czechoslovaks in the Gulag)
Digital project developed by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes aimed at documenting political repression against Czechoslovaks in the Soviet Union. Currently, the project website has published testimonies of survivors, specialist and popularising articles, databases, exhibitions and video recordings of debates, as well as links to related projects. In the future, thousands of NKVD/KGB documents from Ukraine will be published on the project website.
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Czech
Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Online Document Collections of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
Holocaust
theater
archive
Ukrainian Revolution
Chernobyl
State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast
Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Digitized Opisi and Cases Online - State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
local administration
Digitized finding aids and some documents of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast. The digital archive contains a lot of documents, but they are not organized in a clear way. Users may read the finding aids first, and then check out digitized "SPRAVI" to access original documents.
Радянські фонди - Електронний архів Державного архіву Чернівецької області (Soviet Fonds of the Digital Archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast)
Red Army
urban history
Digital archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, consisting of a collection of old photos and a collection of the digital copies of the newspaper "Soviet Bukovyna" from 1940 to 1944.
State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast
Bukovina
Е-архів - Державний архів Тернопільської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast)
education
Lesya Ukrainka
Digital archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast, consisting of a digital reading room for reading finding aids and digitalized documents, and an online exhibition section.
State Archive of Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast
Galicia
Цифровий архів: скановані справи - Державний Архів Миколаївської області (Digital Archive: Scanned Cases - State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast)
genealogy
folklore
folk culture
Digital archive of the State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast that contains digital copies of imperial-era metric books and Soviet-era house books from the 1920s to the 1940s.
State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast
Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Луганської області (Document Exhibitions Online - State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
State Archive of Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast
E-архів - Державний архів Луганської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
Digital collection of civil status registration records of the Luhansk region between 1939-1945, as well as imperial-era metric books.
Виставки Державного архіву Запорізької області (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
medicine
Taras Shevchenko
partisan
State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Волинської області (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast)
Jew
State Archive of Volyn Oblast
Volyn
Redzi, dzirdi Latviju! (See, hear Latvia!)
architecture
sport
transportation
Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents
Latvian
Baltics
Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project
This digital collection presents visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground within the archives of the secret police in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection features confiscated photographs, surveillance photographs, brochures, icons, drawings, letters hymns, and diaries. Materials are from archives in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary.
Ionuț Biliuță
Iuliana Cindrea
Roland Clark
Ágnes Hesz
James Kapaló
Dumitru Lisnic
Iemima Ploscariu
Kinga Povedák
Anca Șincan
Tatiana Vagramenko
Odessa Oblast
Romania
Національний банк даних жертв політичних репресій радянської доби в Україні (National Data Bank of the Victims of Soviet-era Political Repressions in Ukraine)
Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
Виставки он-лайн - Державний архів Київської області. (Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast)
Ostarbeiter
State Archive of Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast
Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Дніпропетровської області Офіційний (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Crimean Tatar
migration
State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Видання - Державний архів Дніпропетровської області Офіційний (Publications of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
collectivization
Publications of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Currently, it has a document collection on Holodomor in the Dnipropetrovsk region and a guide to the archive's fonds.
Digital document collection
Документальні виставки - Державний архів Вінницької області (Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Vinnytsia Oblast)
language
Ukrainian People's Republic
State Archive of Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast
Виставки - Центральниий державний архів громадських об'єднань України (Exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine)
Third Reich
evacuation
Kournikova mudslide
Online exhibitions of the Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine, based on extensive archival documents.
Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine
Выставы - Беларускі дзяржаўны архіў-музей літаратуры і мастацтва (Exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art)
poetry
fine arts
Online exhibitions of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art. Most of the exhibitions are dedicated to prominent Soviet Belarusian writers, poets, artists, and other cultural celebrities.
Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art
Belarusian
Выставки Национального архива Республики Беларусь (Exhibitions of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus)
mathematics
Several online exhibitions of archival documents on the Great Patriotic War and Soviet Belarusian intellectuals.
National Archive of the Republic of Belarus