Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Дніпропетровської області Офіційний (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Crimean Tatar
subject: nationalities
subject: deportation
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: political repression
subject: literature
subject: intellectual
subject: culture
subject: education
subject: Ukrainian Revolution
subject: Holodomor
subject: science
subject: migration
subject: archive
subject: literature & arts
creator: State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Виставки он-лайн - Державний архів Київської області. (Online Exhibitions of the State Archive of Kyiv Oblast)
subject: law
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: Chernobyl
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Ostarbeiter
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
creator: State Archive of Kyiv Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kyiv Oblast
coverage: Ukraine

Національний банк даних жертв політичних репресій радянської доби в Україні (National Data Bank of the Victims of Soviet-era Political Repressions in Ukraine)
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: deportation
description: Online database of victims of Soviet-era political repressions in Ukraine.
creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-1991
format: Online database
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

Digital Archive of the Hidden Galleries Project
subject: religion
subject: political repression
description: 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.
creator: Ionuț Biliuță
creator: Iuliana Cindrea
creator: Roland Clark
creator: Ágnes Hesz
creator: James Kapaló
creator: Dumitru Lisnic
creator: Iemima Ploscariu
creator: Kinga Povedák
creator: Anca Șincan
creator: Tatiana Vagramenko
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-1955
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Odessa Oblast
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Romania

Redzi, dzirdi Latviju! (See, hear Latvia!)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: architecture
subject: cinema
subject: art
subject: education
subject: culture
subject: medicine
subject: everyday life
subject: economy
subject: sport
subject: transportation
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of audio and visual materials of the Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents.
creator: Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1940-post-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Latvian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Baltics

Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Волинської області (Online Document Exhibitions of the State Archive of Volyn Oblast)
subject: local administration
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: education
subject: Chernobyl
subject: political institution
subject: music
subject: culture
subject: archive
subject: Jew
subject: Taras Shevchenko
subject: Lesya Ukrainka
subject: literature
subject: art
subject: Holodomor
subject: literature & arts
creator: State Archive of Volyn Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Volyn

Виставки Державного архіву Запорізької області (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
subject: intellectual
subject: culture
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Holodomor
subject: famine
subject: medicine
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: art
subject: local administration
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: ethnography
subject: Taras Shevchenko
subject: partisan
subject: literature & arts
creator: State Archive of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Zaporizhzhia Oblast

E-архів - Державний архів Луганської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
subject: everyday life
subject: local administration
description: Digital collection of civil status registration records of the Luhansk region between 1939-1945, as well as imperial-era metric books.
creator: State Archive of Luhansk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1945
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Luhansk Oblast

Документальні виставки on-line - Державний архів Луганської області (Document Exhibitions Online - State Archive of Luhansk Oblast)
subject: Great Terror
subject: political repression
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Holodomor
subject: famine
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: statehood
creator: State Archive of Luhansk Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Luhansk Oblast

Цифровий архів: скановані справи - Державний Архів Миколаївської області (Digital Archive: Scanned Cases - State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast)
subject: everyday life
subject: genealogy
subject: local administration
subject: folklore
subject: folk culture
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1940
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Mykolaiv Oblast

Е-архів - Державний архів Тернопільської області (E-Archive of the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast)
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: local administration
subject: culture
subject: political institution
subject: education
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: Chernobyl
subject: Lesya Ukrainka
subject: religion
subject: intellectual
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: deportation
subject: law
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Ternopil Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Ternopil Oblast
coverage: Galicia

Радянські фонди - Електронний архів Державного архіву Чернівецької області (Soviet Fonds of the Digital Archive of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast)
subject: press
subject: printing
subject: agriculture
subject: culture
subject: economy
subject: everyday life
subject: Red Army
subject: urban history
subject: archaeology
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1940-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Chernivtsi Oblast
coverage: Bukovina

Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Digitized Opisi and Cases Online - State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
subject: Party organization
subject: local administration
subject: political institution
description: 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.
creator: State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-1991
format: Digital archive
language: Ukrainian
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Chernihiv Oblast

Документальні виставки онлайн - Державний архів Чернігівської області (Online Document Collections of the State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast)
subject: culture
subject: literature
subject: political institution
subject: Holocaust
subject: statehood
subject: science
subject: law
subject: political repression
subject: peasantry
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: intellectual
subject: theater
subject: art
subject: archive
subject: Ukrainian Revolution
subject: Holodomor
subject: deportation
subject: Chernobyl
subject: personal narrative
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
creator: State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Online exhibition
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Chernihiv Oblast

Czechoslovaks in the Gulag (Czechoslovaks in the Gulag)
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: foreign policy
subject: Gulag
subject: KGB
subject: NKVD
subject: secret police
subject: security service
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1930-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Online database
language: Czech
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Czechoslovakia

Архив расписаний передач телеканалов и радио (Archive of the Programs of Television Channels and Radio)
subject: everyday life
subject: printing
subject: media
subject: radio
subject: television
subject: leisure
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1950-2022
format: Digital collection
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Germany
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Yugoslavia

Кадровый состав органов государственной безопасности СССР. 1935−1939 (The Personnel of the NKVD in the 1930s)
subject: NKVD
subject: secret police
subject: security service
subject: political repression
description: Online database developed by the International Memorial, providing information about the personnel of the Soviet NKVD during 1935 and 1939.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1935-1939
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: USSR
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Moldova
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Tajikistan
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Turkmenistan
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Estonia

Жертвы политического террора в СССР (Victims of Soviet Political Repressions)
subject: political repression
subject: Great Terror
subject: secret police
subject: security service
description: A huge database of victims of Soviet political repressions developed by the International Memorial.
creator: Memorial
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Online database
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Афганистан 1979-1989 (Afghanistan 1979-1989)
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: foreign policy
description: A great number of declassified archival documents on Soviet policy towards Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
creator: National Security Archive, George Washington University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1979-1989
format: Digital collection
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Afghanistan

Возрождение 1925-1939 (Vozrozhdenie 1925-1939)
subject: diaspora
subject: anti-Communist
subject: printing
subject: religion
subject: foreign policy
description: 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.
creator: Princeton University Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1925-1939
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: France
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Бюллетень Оппозиции (большевиков-ленинцев) (Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninist))
subject: Trotsky
subject: Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
subject: Stalin
subject: political leader
subject: Fourth International
subject: class struggle
subject: Marxism
subject: ideology
description: 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.
creator: Iskra-Research
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1929-1941
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: France
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

SOVIETPOSTCARDS
subject: everyday life
subject: celebration
subject: children
subject: army
subject: aeroflot
subject: Lenin
subject: propaganda
description: Collection of Soviet postcards from different periods and regions.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1920-1990
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Архивные online проекты - Портал Архивы России (Online Archival Projects - Portal "Archives of Russia")
subject: P.O.W.
subject: World War II
subject: Stalin
subject: Georgii Malenkov
subject: Polish-Soviet War
subject: Great Patriotic War
subject: Crimea
subject: Alexei Kosygin
subject: Lenin
subject: Munich Agreement
subject: statehood
subject: Stalingrad
subject: sputnik
subject: Brezhnev
subject: Khrushchev
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: Andropov
subject: Nuremberg trials
subject: nationalism
subject: OUN
subject: UIA
subject: famine
subject: Yuri Gagarin
subject: political leader
subject: literature & arts
description: A few digital archival projects developed by various Russian archival institutions.
creator: Portal "Archives of Russia"
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital project
format: Online exhibition
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Khabarovsk
coverage: Japan
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Ukraine

Հայաստանի Ամերիկեան համալսարանի Հայ մատենագրութեան թուանշանային գրադարան (Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia)
subject: Armenology
subject: diaspora
subject: historiography
subject: philosophy
subject: theology
subject: pedagogy
subject: science
subject: law
subject: linguistics
subject: ethnography
subject: health
subject: geography
subject: travel
subject: literature
subject: translation
subject: journalism
subject: economy
subject: legal source
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital library that contains thousands of digital copies of Armenian-language literature from various disciplines. Many materials were published in the Soviet era.
creator: Digital Library of Armenian Literature of the American University of Armenia
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Armenian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Caucasus

ЗВУКОВЫЕ АРХИВЫ: Европейская Память о Гулаге (Sound Archives: European Memories of the Gulag)
subject: Gulag
subject: political repression
subject: World War II
subject: deportation
subject: everyday life
subject: women
subject: hunger
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
creator: Radio France Internationale (RFI)
creator: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
creator: École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
creator: Centre d'études des mondes russe caucasien et centre-européen
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1939-1953
format: Digital project
language: Russian
language: English
language: Polish
language: French
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Poland
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Eastern Europe

Журнал «Советская музыка» (Journal "Soviet Music")
subject: music
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: literature & arts
description: Digital archive of the journal "Soviet Music" from 1933 till 1991.
creator: Union of Composers of the USSR
creator: Ministry of Culture of the USSR
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1933-1991
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

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))
subject: diaspora
subject: book
subject: press
subject: printing
subject: culture
subject: dissident
subject: personal narrative
description: 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.
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1956-1991
format: Digital project
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA
coverage: France
coverage: Italy
coverage: Netherlands
coverage: UK
coverage: Israel
coverage: Germany

Collection Dziga Vertov
subject: Dziga Vertov
subject: cinema
subject: film
subject: art
subject: personal narrative
subject: literature & arts
description: 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).
creator: Österreichisches Filmmuseum
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1973
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
language: German
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

КЫРГЫЗСКИЙ ФОТОАРХИВ (Kyrgyz Photo Archive)
subject: photography
subject: art
subject: everyday life
subject: nationalities
subject: Kyrgyz
subject: history
subject: historiography
subject: environment
subject: celebrity
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: Union of Photojournalists of Kyrgyzstan
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital archive
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Turkestan

Научное наследие М.М. Герасимова (Academic Legacy of M.M. Gerasimov)
subject: intellectual
subject: science
subject: anthropology
subject: archaeology
subject: sculpture
subject: Mikhail Gerasimov
subject: history
description: 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.
creator: Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1933-1970
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: Uzbekistan
coverage: Central Asia
coverage: Irkutsk

Интернет-проекты Горбачев Фонда (Internet-projects of the Gorbachev Foundation)
subject: collapse of the USSR
subject: Mikhail Gorbachev
subject: Raisa Gorbacheva
subject: public opinion
subject: personal narrative
subject: August Coup
description: 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.
creator: The Gorbachev Foundation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1986-post-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Библиография трудов Д.С. Лихачева (Bibliography of Works of D.C. Likhachev)
subject: Dmitry Likhachev
subject: intellectual
subject: celebrity
subject: philology
subject: linguistics
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: literature & arts
description: An online bibliography of works of Dmitry Likhachev, with links to downloadable PDF copies.
creator: Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1928-2015
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Полное собрание сочинений Ленина (Full Collection of Lenin's Works)
subject: Revolution
subject: statehood
subject: Marxism
subject: Leninism
subject: Lenin
subject: imperialism
subject: capitalism
subject: ideology
subject: propaganda
subject: communism
subject: Party organization
subject: socialism
subject: religion
subject: nationalities
subject: nationalism
subject: political leader
description: Digitized full collection of Lenin's works in 55 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles.
creator: Materialisticheskaia dialektika
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1893-1922
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Сталин И.В. Сочинения: Т. 1–18. (I.V. Stalin's Works: V.1-18.)
subject: ideology
subject: Stalinism
subject: nationalities
subject: nationalism
subject: economy
subject: agriculture
subject: industrialization
subject: political institution
subject: political leader
subject: peasantry
subject: Great Patriotic War
description: Digitized full collection of Stalin's works in 18 volumes, with alphabetic indicators for titles and relevant additional materials.
creator: Library of Mikhail Grachev
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1901-1953
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Caucasus

Cold War on File
subject: Cold War
subject: foreign relations
subject: foreign policy
subject: Yalta Conference
subject: Potsdam Conference
subject: British-Soviet relations
subject: broadcast
subject: Marshall Aid
subject: Korean War
subject: Prague Spring
subject: nuclear war
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
subject: Tehran Conference
description: A collection of British documents on the Cold War and postwar British-Soviet relations.
creator: National Archives of the United Kingdom
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1943-1984
format: Digital collection
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: UK
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: USA
coverage: Korea
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Czechoslovakia

Антисоветская Электронная Библиотека: исторические материалы и книги (Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books)
subject: dissident
subject: samizdat
subject: anti-Soviet
subject: everyday life
subject: personal narrative
description: Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
creator: Anti-Soviet Electronic Library: Historical Materials and Books
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
subject: Gulag
subject: political repression
subject: labor
subject: camp
subject: karlag
description: 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.
creator: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
creator: George Mason University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1988
format: Digital project
format: Digital archive
language: English
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Siberia

Електронна бібліотека української літератури (Electronic library of Ukrainian Literature)
subject: literature
subject: culture
subject: national culture
subject: literature & arts
description: 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.
creator: University of Toronto
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Ukrainian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Ukraine

Published Research of the RAND Corporation
subject: technology
subject: dissident
subject: perestroika
subject: Gorbachev
subject: late socialism
subject: science
subject: foreign relations
subject: intelligence
subject: foreign policy
subject: economy
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: Soviet-Vietnamese relations
subject: arms control
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
subject: Soviet-Japanese relations
subject: KGB
subject: military
subject: nationalities
subject: collapse of the USSR
subject: Stalin
subject: industrial development
subject: political repression
subject: Khrushchev
subject: nuclear war
description: Digital collection of various materials (books, memoirs, samizdat, fictions) on the Soviet Union from an anti-Soviet perspective.
creator: RAND Corporation
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1950-1991
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: USA
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Korea
coverage: Xinjiang
coverage: Yugoslavia

Памятники жертвам политических репрессий, установленные на территории бывшего СССР (Monuments for the Victims of Political Repressions on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union)
subject: political repression
subject: monument
subject: Holodomor
subject: famine
subject: Great Terror
subject: Gulag
description: Digital project that lists monuments for the victims of Soviet political repression in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
creator: Sakharov Center
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1917-1991
format: Digital project
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Azerbaijan
coverage: Armenia
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Belarus
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Kazakhstan
coverage: Kyrgyzstan
coverage: Uzbekistan

Nuremberg Trials Project
subject: Nuremberg Trials
subject: Nazi
subject: World War Ⅱ
description: 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.
creator: Harvard Law School Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1939-1948
format: Digital project
language: German
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Germany
coverage: USA
coverage: UK
coverage: France

Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
subject: Soviet-Hungarian relations
subject: foreign relations
subject: Soviet-Afghan War
subject: Cuban Missile Crisis
subject: Sino-Soviet relations
subject: ideology
subject: Hungarian Revolution of 1956
description: 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.
creator: Corvinus University of Budapest
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1954-1989
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Hungary
coverage: USSR
coverage: Vietnam
coverage: China
coverage: North Korea
coverage: Cuba
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: Afghanistan

FBI Records: Operation SOLO
subject: intelligence
subject: Operation SOLO
subject: Cold War
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
description: 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.
creator: FBI
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1958-1966
format: Digital archive
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: USSR
coverage: global
coverage: China
coverage: Eastern Europe

Harvard Digital Collections
subject: law
subject: foreign relations
subject: economy
subject: propaganda
subject: Russian Revolution
subject: communism
subject: political institution
subject: KGB
subject: intelligence
subject: Jewish
subject: general
subject: World War Ⅱ
subject: U.S.-Soviet relations
subject: legal source
description: 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.
creator: Harvard Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
language: English
language: Polish
language: French
language: Persian
language: German
language: Chinese
language: Yiddish
language: Spanish
language: Bulgarian
language: Ukrainian
language: Hebrew
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia
coverage: USA
coverage: China
coverage: France
coverage: Germany
coverage: global

The Origin of Rus'
subject: history
description: 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.
creator: Omeljan Pritsak
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1975
format: Digital collection
format: Other social media
format: Social media
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USA
coverage: Russia
coverage: Ukraine

Устная история (Oral History)
subject: culture
subject: science
subject: technology
subject: everyday life
subject: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
subject: Victor Ardov
subject: Victor Shklovskii
subject: Igor Shelkovskii
subject: intellectual
subject: education
subject: personal narrative
description: A digital archive of oral histories on everyday life, science, technology, and the experiences of the technical-intellectual elite in the USSR.
creator: Moscow State University
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1900-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Russia

Americans in the Land of Lenin: Photographs of Early Soviet Russia
subject: everyday life
subject: American Expeditionary Force
subject: industrialization
subject: collectivization
description: A Duke University exhibit of photographs taken between 1918 and 1930 by two Americans, officer Robert L. Eichelberger and economist Frank Whitson Fetter, who had the opportunity to visit the USSR during that time. The photographs reveal aspects of everyday social and economic life.
creator: Duke University Library
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1919-1930
format: Digital collection
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia

Архив журналов "Наука и жизнь" (Archive of the Magazine "Science and Life")
subject: science
subject: technology
description: The official digital archive of the journal "Nauka i zhizn'", which provides free access to a limited number of digitized Soviet-era issues.
creator: Editorial board of Nauka i Zhizn'
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1890-2022
format: Digital archive
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR

Электронная библиотека СПбПУ (Digital Library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University)
subject: education
subject: science
subject: natural science
subject: technology
description: Digital library of the Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, containing digital copies of the university's publications, including academic books and periodicals, as well as more general publications on university history and everyday life.
creator: Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University
source: Link to the Resource
date: pre-1917-post-1991
format: Digital library
language: Russian
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: Russia
coverage: Leningrad

Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
subject: fall of the Berlin Wall
subject: fall of Communism
subject: collapse of the USSR
description: A site devoted to 1980s resistance movements in Eastern Europe and the events leading up to 1989. It contains official documents, American intelligence files, photographs, posters, and other documents.
creator: German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
creator: National Endowment for the Humanities
creator: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
source: Link to the Resource
date: 1989
format: Digital project
language: English
type: Open Access Primary Source
coverage: USSR
coverage: Eastern Europe
coverage: China
coverage: Hungary
coverage: Poland
coverage: Germany
coverage: Yugoslavia
coverage: Albania
coverage: Bulgaria
coverage: Georgia
coverage: Czechoslovakia
coverage: Latvia
coverage: Ukraine
coverage: Lithuania
coverage: Estonia
coverage: Romania