Абхазская интернет-библиотека (Abkhaz Internet-Library)
culture
local history
history
ethnography
nationalities
religion
language
linguistics
literature
folklore
folk culture
economy
law
science
art
children
local study
personal narrative
natural science
legal source
literature & arts
Digital library containing books, periodicals, and other types of materials related to Abkhazia.
Link to the Resource
Digital library
Russian
Abkhaz
Abkhazia
Russia
Georgia
South Caucasus
Постигая Алтай. Электронная библиотека Алтая: Коллекции (Understanding Altai: The Electronic Library of Altai: Collections)
agriculture
Great Patriotic War
scholarship
academics
World War I
veteran
virgin lands campaign
Electronic library of the V. Ia. Shishkov Altai Krai Universal Scientific Library. It contains numerous resources (books, archival documents, maps, etc.) on the local history of Altai Krai, as well as collections of local newspapers.
Altai Region V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
Digital collection
Altai Krai
Электронная Сибирь: Communities and Collections (Electronic Siberia: Communities and Collections)
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
industrialization
collectivization
political repression
Cold War
Perestroika
general
New Economic Policy
Digital repository of four state libraries in Siberia and the Altai region, which provides free access to abundant digitized regional publications.
Altai Krai V. Ia. Shishkov Universal Scientific Library
Kemerov Oblast V. D. Fedorov Scientific Library
Novosibirsk Oblast State Scientific Library
Tomsk Oblast Pushkin Universal Scientific Library
Донская электронная библиотека (Don Electronic Library )
forestry
health
medicine
social sciences
humanities
A digital library containing publications on and from the Don region, including books and periodicals.
Don State Public Library
Rostov Oblast
Коллекции электронной библиотеки Тамбовской области (Collections of the Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast)
An electronic library of books, brochures, and periodicals from the Tambov oblast on local history and social, economic, and political life.
Electronic Library of Tambov Oblast
USSR
Tambov Oblast
История России и СССР (The History of Russia and the USSR)
Collection of digitized books, brochures, and periodicals on Russian and Soviet history from the Karelian Republic.
Electronic Library of the Republic of Karelia
Digital archive
Republic of Karelia
Личные фонды видных деятелей Советской эпохи (Personal Fonds of Prominent Figures of the Soviet Period)
political leader
political institution
Stalin
Digitized documents from the personal fond of Stalin from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Газеты периода первой мировой и гражданских войн (Newspapers of the Period of the First World War and the Russian Civil War)
Collection of a number of Russian central and local newspapers of during the First World War and the Russian Civil War
INION RAN and Fond "Istoriia otechestva"
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Ukraine
Belarus
Central Asia
Turkestan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Far East
Siberia
Caucasus
Baltics
Хроники Приангарья: электронная библиотека (Chronicles of Priangarye)
ecology
environment
Digital library of Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library, containing a huge number of digital copies of Soviet books, periodicals, and photographs about the Irkutsk region.
Irkutsk Oblast State Universal Scientific Molchanov-Sibirskii Library
Irkutsk Oblast
Все периодические издания электронной библиотеки "Хроники Приангарья" (All Periodicals of the Electronic Library "Chronicles of Priangarye" )
Digital collection of periodicals of the Irkutsk region.
Электронная библиотека ИМЛИ РАН (Digital Library of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Digital library of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, containing digital copies of Russian and Soviet literary publications, including literary works, literary studies, and literary journals editions, from the imperial period till today.
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The link takes one to the page of the Library of Congress collections for the keyword "Soviet Union" filtered by those materials available online. One can also search this library for other keywords using various filters (on the left) in order to narrow the search.
Library of Congress
English
Экспонаты музея политической истории России (Exhibits of the Museum of Political History of Russia)
numismatics
Digital exhibits of the Museum of the Political History of Russia.
Museum of the Political History of Russia
Российская Национальная электронная библиотека (National Electronic Library of Russia)
dekulakization
Crimea
railroad
crime
justice
Gulag
prison
punishment
poetry
youth
Andrei Belyi
Pitirim Sorokin
emigration
music
Bulat Okudzhava
Boris Pasternak
Konstantin Bal'mont
Arctic
technology
leisure
education
literacy
epidemics
Leningrad Blockade
nutrition
military
medics
Revolution
foreign policy
Vladimir Mayakovaky
chess
Congress of Soviets
Marxim Gorky
natural resource
transportation
National Electronic Library of Russia, containing tons of digitized books. maps, musical scores, periodicals, and other types of materials. It can also be used as a unified bibliographic system for identifying and locating published materials in Russia.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Национальная электронная библиотека Удмуртской Республики (National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic)
politics
national culture
Udmurtia
Digital library of the Udmurt Republic, containing tens of thousands of digital copies of various publications from several local libraries and organizations.
National Library of the Udmurt Republic
Udmurt
Udmurt Republic
Дневники и письма (Diaries and Letters) on Militera
war
Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921)
Spanish Russian Civil War
Polish campaign (1939)
Soviet-Japanese war (1945)
Vietnam War
Yugoslav War
World War Ⅰ
Russian-Japanese War
Russian-language diaries and personal correspondence on wars in the 20th century.
Oleg Rubetskii
Europe
Soviet-Finnish War (1918-1920)
Soviet-Chinese conflict (1929)
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1928) (1939)
Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)
Bessarabian campaign
Iranian campaign (1941)
Soviet-Afghan War
Bukovina campaign
Russian-language memoirs on wars in the 20th century.
Первоисточники (Primary Documents) on Militera
Soviet-Japanese conflict (1938) (1939)
entry of troops into the Baltic states (1940)
Allied fight against Japan (1941-1945)
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Primary source documents on 20th-century wars.
Soviet bloc
repatriation
foreign relations
Red Army
diplomacy
Polish-Soviet relations
Integrated digital archival information system of Poland, containing digital copies of materials from various Polish archives. You can find many materials related to the Soviet Union and Polish-Soviet relations on this site.
The National Digital Archives of Poland
Polish
Poland
Eastern Europe
國家歷史檔案整合平台 (National Historical Archives)
intelligence
Sino-Soviet relations
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict
Manchuria
World War Ⅱ
Comintern
communism
trade
press
everyday life
Chinese migrants
Xinjiang
migration
espionage
propaganda
White Army
Digital archival information system that provides open access to numerous digitized archival documents from major archival institutions of Taiwan. Here you can find thousands of Soviet-related documents and access many of them directly from the website.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Chinese
Japanese
China
Japan
Mongolia
USA
P.O.W.
Digital archive of the National Archives Administration of Taiwan, where you can find tons of documents from various state organs of the Republic of China throughout the 20th century. Currently, hundreds of documents related to the Soviet Union and Russia have been digitized and are available on the website.
National Archives Administration of Taiwan
新聞記事文庫 (神戸大学附属図書館) (Newspaper Clippings Collection (Kobe University Library))
Mukden Incident
Japanese-Soviet relations
Digital Japanese newspaper clippings collection developed by the Kobe University Library, providing open-access to articles from various Japanese newspapers published in the 20th century. Many articles are related to Japanese-Soviet-Chinese relations.
Kobe University Library
Электронный архив научно-информационного центра "Фонд Иофе" (Санкт-Петербург) (Electronic Archive of the Scientific-informational Center "Iofe Fond" (Saint Petersburg))
Great Terror
memory
opposition
human rights
civil society
intellectual
deportation
NKVD
feminist movement
Digital archive of the Iofe Fond, containing archival documents, memoirs, biographic data, and other types of materials related to Soviet political repression and civil activism.
Fond Iofe
Kazakhstan
Виртуальный музей ГУЛАГа (Virtual Gulag museum)
purge
Digital museum presenting thousands of exhibits, archival documents, and photographs on the history of Gulag and Soviet political repression.
Online database
Государственный архив Алтайского края (State Archive of Altai Krai)
Altai Region
orphanage
evacuation
industry
Aleksandr Rodionov
fire department
Viktor Sadchikov
theater
economics
The official website of the State Archive of the Altai Krai, which provides free access to numerous digitized archival materials from the archive.
State Archive of Altai Krai
Online exhibition
KGB
secret police
nationalism
censorship
Communism
security service
Extensive former KGB documents, including archival documents and KGB journals and books, presented by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania
Digital project
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
中文马克思主义文库 (Chinese-language Marxist Full-text Database)
ideology
internationalism
Leninism
Marxism
anti-Revisionism
Sino-Soviet split
Open-access full-text database of Chinese-language Marxist works, developed by the Marxists Internet Archive. It contains the Chinese translations of Lenin's works and many other Soviet publications. It also has many documents related to Sino-Soviet relations, such as a 21-volume document collection on the relationship between the Comintern and the CCP (共产国际、联共（布）与中国革命档案资料丛书) published by the CCP's Central Institute of Party History and Literature, and a 34-volume document collection of Soviet archival documents (苏联历史档案选编) published by China's Social Sciences Academic Press.
Marxists Internet Archive
NATO
security
arms control
NATO's digital archive, containing thousands of declassified or unclassified NATO memorandum, analytical reports, and other types of documents regarding the Soviet Union.
NATO Archives Online
France
Germany
emigre
André Savine
The André Savine Collection is composed of several large sub-collections documenting the lives of Russian exiles. The most distinguished of these, named by Savine “Militaria,” documents the life of the Russian White Army in Gallipoli and beyond.
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Libraries
Электронный архив В. И. Вернадского (Electronic Archive of V. I. Vernadskii)
bibliography
mineralogy
geochemistry
Vladimir Vernadsky
Digitized scientific works, diaries, and personal correspondence of Vladimir Vernadskii, a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, as well as literature on him.
Vladimir Vernadsky Digital Archive
Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified
1956 Polish Crisis
international relations
Polish crisis
nuclear power
hockey
sport
Cuban missile crisis
East German uprising
Somalia
Ethiopia
Africa
Ogaden War
Ethiopian-Somali conflict
India
nuclear proliferation
Surveillance/espionage
Interkit
Iran
Katyn Massacre
nationalities policy
media
political police
destalinization
Yugoslavia
Hungary
radio
CIA
Radio Free Europe
Warsaw Pact
invasion of Afghanistan
Prague spring
space race
Algeria
Horn of Africa
Yi-Ta Incident
politburo
invasion of Czechoslovakia
Chernobyl
Khrushchev
Olympic Games
Soviet-North Korean relations
Huge digital archive containing extensive archival documents from all over the world.
Woodrow Wilson Center
German
Albanian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Czech
Finnish
French
Hebrew
Hungarian
Korean
Mongolian
Romanian
Serbo-Croatian
Slovak
Spanish
Turkish
Vietnamese
global
Full Listing of Ancillary Editor Project Documents (Stalin Digital Archive)
Documents selected as ancillary material the Editor Projects associated with the Stalin Digital Archive.
Yale University Press
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
nazi
Fascism
A Russian federal project aimed at "retain the historical memory about the tragedy of the peaceful population of the USSR - victims of the war crimes of nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War." Under the framework of the project, archives across Russia have published a series of document collections under the same title. These publications are freely accessible on the project's website. Users can also use the database on the website to search documents they want to access.
Poiskovoe dvizhenie Rossii
Digital document collection
Belgorod Oblast
Bryansk Oblast
Volgograd Oblast
Voronezh Oblast
Kalmykia
Kaluga Oblast
Republic of Karelya
Krasnodar Krai
Sevastopol
Kursk Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Moscow
Moscow Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Oryol Oblast
Pskov Oblast
North Caucasus
Smolensk Oblast
Stavropol Krai
Tver Oblast
Tula Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast
Электронная библиотека Государственного архива Новосибирской области (Digital Library of the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast)
infrastructure
urban history
women
light industry
October Revolution
Soviet-Finnish War
printing
newspaper
periodicals
Kalmyk
peasantry
defence
trans-Siberian railroad
space program
A well-designed digital library based on extensive archival documents from the State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast. The digital library is divided into several sections, including digital exhibitions, online document collections, digital collections, online periodicals, etc. It would be a very useful resource for researching the Novosibirsk region, as well as most common topics in Soviet history.
State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk
Leningrad
Omsk
Tomsk Oblast
partisan
guerilla warfare
industrial development
film
cinema
oral history
Digital information portal on the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad that includes various databases, digital projects, online exhibitions, and downloadable document collections. One can find a lot of interesting documents following the links to different projects on this page.
Archival Committee of Saint-Petersburg
Tikhvin
Kronshtadt
Электронные коллекции Российской Национальной Библиотеки (Digital Collections of the Russian National Library)
February Revolution
cartography
Russian avant-garde
Digital collections of Russian National Library that provide open access to extensive pre- and post-1917 publications on a variety of themes.
Russian National Library
Электронная библиотека "Научное наследие России" (Digital Library "Scientific Heritage of Russia")
Russian Academy of Sciences
history of science
Russian diaspora
archaeology
philosophy
historiography
demography
sociology
legislation
political science
psychology
mathematics
physics
cybernetics
chemistry
biology
geology
geography
astronomy
automation
metallurgy
nuclear technology
fishing
biotechnology
water management
housing
public health
statistics
scientist
scholar
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.
Электронный библиотека ГПНТБ России (Digital Library of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology)
Amur
architecture
urban planning
viticulture
energy
Digital library that provides open access to thousands of Soviet academic publications related to science and technology.
Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
ЭЛЕКТРОННАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА Петербурга (Digital Library of Petersburg)
fine arts
intellectual history
Digital project led by the Mayakovsky Library, with the participation of many other libraries in Saint-Petersburg. Apart from publications of all sorts, this digital library provides open access to many digitized publications on Saint-Petersburg.
Mayakovsky Library
Saint-Petersburg
Электронная библиотека Республики Карелия (Digital Library of the Republic of Karelia)
library
land use
mass media
local administration
Russian Orthodox Church
museum
Digital library of the National Library of the Republic of Karelia, containing many digitized local publications of the Soviet period. It also has a lot of publications and manuscripts in Finnish language.
National Library of the Republic of Karelia
Пермская электронная библиотека (Perm Digital Library)
travel
cosmos
climate
Digital library of the Perm State Library of Maksim Gorky, containing a lot of interesting publications from the Russian imperial times through the contemporary era. Apart from extensive publications in Russian, the digital library also provides access to publications in the Komi-Permyak language.
Perm Krai Gorky Universal Library
Permyak
Perm Krai
Электронная библиотека - Воронежская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
philology
Digital library of Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library, containing a considerable number of digitized books and periodicals. Particularly, it has not only oblast-level but also raion-level periodicals.
Voronezh Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Электронная библиотека - Магаданская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Digital Library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
borderland
A.G. Kozlov
Digital library of Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library. Currently, it has four collections: digitized issues of the journal "На севере дальнем" (from 1955 till today); digitized issues of the newspaper "Советская Колыма" (1936-1954); folklore of indigenous peoples; and works of Aleksandr Kozlov, a Soviet historian of the Magadan region.
Magadan Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Magadan Oblast
Kolyma
Краеведческий интернет-портал "Нижегородская область: страницы истории" (Internet-portal "Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Pages of History")
Komsomol
Maksim Gorgyi
Old Believer
Digital collection of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Universal Scientific Library on the history of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, containing extensive books and periodicals from and on the region.
Nizhny Novgorod State Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Пензенская электронная библиотека (Penza Digital Library)
kolkhoz
social welfare
Party organization
Digital library of Penza Oblast Library, containing hundreds of digitized Soviet books and periodical issues, most of which were published locally.
Penza Oblast Library
Penza Oblast
Публичная электронная библиотека - Сахалинская областная универсальная научная библиотека (Public Digital Library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library)
nature
exile
Digital library of Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific library that contains digital copies of many Soviet books on the Sakhalin region.
Sakhalin Oblast Universal Scientific Library
Sakhalin
Электронная библиотека - Ульяновская областная научная библиотека имени В.И. Ленина (Digital Library of Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library)
administrative-territorial division
Digital library of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientificc Library, containing digital copies of many pre-revolution and Soviet books and periodical issues.
Ulyanovsk Oblast Lenin Scientific Library
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Електронної бібліотеки «Культура України» (Digital Library "Culture of Ukraine")
Ukrainian modernism
dance
choreography
circus
book
material culture
Digital library of the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Wise focusing on Ukrainian cultural heritage. Here users can find publications from different periods on Ukrainian cultural topics.
The National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise
Електронна бібліотека НБУ для дітей (Digital Library of the National Library of Ukraine for Children)
Digital library of rare children's publications that came out between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century at the National Library of Ukraine for Children.
National Library of Ukraine for Children
Digital database of newspapers, journals, and serials published in Estonia from 1811 till today. Users can search by date of publication, publication title, article headline, keywords, author, and other parameters.
National Library of Estonia
Estonian