famine
hunger
agriculture
collectivization
statistics
Economic and population data on the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
International Contact Group for research on on issues of historical political economy in former Soviet archives
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
English
USSR
art
propaganda
culture
literature & arts
International Institute of Social History
Russian
История нашей страны: Киевская Русь -- Московское государство -- Российская империя -- СССР -- Россия (The History of Our Country: Kievan Rus' -- Muscovy -- The Russian Empire -- USSR -- Russia)
Pokrovsky
history
almanac
constitution of 1936
CPSU
church
Nicholas II
Great Patriotic War
religion
Digital project that provides open access to electronic books, digitized documents, maps, and other materials related to Russian and Soviet statehood.
K. Kuzmin'skii
Kol'tso Patrioticheskikh Resursov
Digital project
Russia
Кольские карты. Карты ХХ века (Kola maps. Maps of the 20th Century)
map
geography
geology
economics
urban history
Digital collection of 20th-century maps of Russia, USSR, and especially the Murmansk region.
Kola maps editorial board
Murmansk Oblast
Исторические сведения о кумыках (Historical Information about the Kumyks)
Kumyks
Caucasus
Dagestan
Turks
nationalities
local administration
A website dedicated to the Kumyk people, their history and culture. Some transcriptions of archival documents and historical photographs can be found in different sections of the website.
Kumyk Scientific-Cultural Society
North Caucasus
Электронный архив открытого доступа НИУ "БелГУ" (Open-Access Repository of the Belgorod National Research University)
science
humanities
social sciences
education
linguistics
philology
literature
philosophy
mathematics
natural science
Digital archive of the Belgorod State University, containing digitized publications of scholars from the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc.
Belgorod National Research University
Digital library
Belgorod
Материалы русской истории (Materials on Russian History )
Russian Revolution
Russian Civil War
personal narrative
A site that contains digital texts of many Russian historiographical works, as well as memoirs and diaries on the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Архив Магнитогорского Металла (The Archive of the Magnitogorskii Metall)
Magnitogorsk
metallurgy
industry
industrialization
local history
Digital editions of the newspaper "Magnitogorskii metall" from 1935 till today.
Magnitogorskii Metall: The Magnitogorsk City Newspaper
Digital archive
Unified Digital Archive of Osip Mandelstam
poetry
Osip Mandelstam
intellectual
Archival documents, including author bio, letters, and official documents, related to Osip Mandelstam.
Mandelshtam Center
Ежегодник «Общество и государство в Китае» (Yearbook "Society and State in China")
foreign relations
foreign policy
Sino-Soviet relations
Oriental Studies
Chinese Studies
Annual publication of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1970. Digital copies of table of contents from 1980 are freely downloadable on this web page.
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
China
Books of International Memorial (Books of International Memorial)
Great Terror
family
deportation
Ostarbeiter
Volga German
political repression
purge
Three online available document collections published by the International Memorial on Soviet-era political repressions and ostarbeiters.
Memorial
Digital document collection
Germany
Ukraine
Belarus
Siberia
Фотоархив Мемориала (Memorial Photo Archive)
human rights
Gulag
civil society
dissident
Photograph collections of the International Memorial on Soviet political repressions and civil activism.
Диск Сталинских списков (Stalin Lists Disk)
Stalin
Digitized lists of persons who were repressed under Stalin.
P.O.W.
oral history
Online archive of interviews with former Ostarbeiters, prisoners of war, and prisoners of German camps and a publication site for materials related to this topic.
Romania
Poland
Hungary
Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia
Хроника текущих событий (The Chronicle of Current Events)
Helsinki process
The Chronicle of Current Events is a type-written, informational bulletin of Soviet human rights activists, published from 1968 to 1983. This website provides online transcripts of the content of the bulletin.
memory
secret police
NKVD
GPU
KGB
Cheka
A set of oral history and memory projects on Soviet political repression and terror.
Memorial Museum "The Investigative Prison of the NKVD"
Leon Trotsky
Revolution
politics
Yakov Sverdlov
Red Army
Communist international
Lenin
Digital collection of audio recordings of Soviet politicians (mostly Lenin).
Michigan State University
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1914-1918. Памяти героев Великой войны (1914-1918. In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War)
World War Ⅰ
Online database and collection of photographs, documents, and maps on Russia's participation in the First World War.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Петроград, Ленинград в истории Красноярья в ХХ веке по материалам КГКУ "Государственный архив Красноярского края" (Petrograd, Leningrad in the History of Krasnoyarsk in the 20th Century in the Materials of KGKU "State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai")
economy
political institution
Document collection dedicated to the relationship between Petrograd/Leningrad and the Krasnoyarsk region throughout the 20th century.
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
V. P. Astafiev FBGOU VPO KGPU
Archive Agency of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Leningrad
Цена кадра: каждый второй ранен; каждый третий убит (The Price of a Film Frame: Every Other Man is Wounded; Every Fourth Man is Killed)
Holocaust
photographers
cinema
Digital project dedicated to the creators of Soviet front-line films during the Second World War. On this web page you can find archival documents, photographs, and video clips about Soviet front-line filmmaking.
State Central Film Museum of Russia
Поиск экспонатов (Музей кино) (Museum of Cinema Digital Archive of Exhibit Objects)
film
Digitized photographs, posters, manuscripts, rare books, and other types of exhibits of the State Central Film Museum of Russia.
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Коллекции - Музей Истории Евреев в России (Collections of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia)
Jewish
national culture
Digital collection of exhibits of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia.
Museum of the History of the Jews in Russia
Hebrew
Georgia
Israel
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Uzbekistan
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Azerbaijan
Андрей Иванович Шингарев (Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev )
Kadets
Duma
Andrei Shingarev
Website dedicated to Andrei Shingarev, one of the leaders of the Russian Constitutional Democratic party.
Nadezhda Alekseieva Nechaieva
Georgii Ivanovich Trubnikov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Makarov
Документы и статьи (Documents and Articles)
Communist Party
partisan
Transcriptions of a set of archival documents on Soviet party organization and other issues.
Nafthali Hirschkowitz et al.
Североамериканские финны в Советской Карелии в 1920‑1930‑е гг. (Northern American Finns in Soviet Karelia, 1920-1930s)
migration
sport
Online exhibition dedicated to Northern American Finns who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Finnish
Republic of Karelia
Архивная мозаика культуры Карелии в интернете (The Archival Mosaic of Karelian Culture Online)
writing
music
statesmen
Karelia
Digital archive of documents and materials on Karelian culture.
Д.А.Кунаев. Официальный сайт (D.A. Kunaev. Official Site)
political leader
Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Official website of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, one of the most important Kazakh political leaders in the 20th century. On the website you can find his biographic information as well as many relevant documents and photographs.
International Konaev Fund
Kazakhstan
Central Asia
Журнал «Коммунистический интернационал» (1919-1943) (Journal The Communist International (1919-1943))
Comintern
communism
ideology
Digital editions of the journal "Kommunisticheskii internatsianal" from 1919 to 1943.
National Electronic Library of Russia
Журнал "Современная архитектура" (1926-1930) (The Journal Contemporary Architecture (1926-1930))
architecture
Digital editions of the journal "Sovremennaia arkhitektura" from 1919 to 1943.
Communism
National Library of Scotland
Windows on War: Soviet Posters, 1943-1945
The University of Nottingham's rare collection of Soviet war posters.
The University of Nottingham
Online exhibition
Rubrik Dokument des Monats (Document of the Month Section)
German
A digital project, mostly for educational purposes, where a new primary document pertaining to the history of Germans in Russia is posted each month.
Bavarian Cultural Center for Germans from Russia
Nuremberg Trials
Digitized 2-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials published in Moscow in the 1950s.
1946
Дети тылового Алтая (The Children of the Altai Home Front)
children
Documents on the mobilization of children at the home front in Altai during the Great Patriotic War.
O. N. Dudareva
Altai Krai
Депортированные калмыки на Новосибирской земле: расселение и обустройство. Декабрь 1943-1946 гг. Сборник документов. (Deported Kalmyks on Novosibirsk Territory: Resettlement and Acclimatization. December 1943-1946. Document Collection)
resettlement
Kalmyk
Document collection on the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia during and after the Second World War.
O. V. Vydrina and I. V. Samarin et al.
Novosibirsk Oblast
Vladivostok
Primorsky Krai
tourism
Collection of Soviet-era photographs and postcards of Vladivostok.
Old Vladivostok
everyday life
security service
A memory project conducted among families from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Perm. In each family extensive interviews were carried out with the oldest relatives, who were able to explain the context of their family archives and relate them to the family history. This represents a unique collection of documents and testimony about private life in the Stalin period, reflecting the interior world of ordinary families and individuals.
Orlando Figes
Moscow
Saint-Petersburg
Perm
Europe
international relations
global
World War I
Cold War
Perestroika
general
New Economic Policy
This is a site linking to multiple digitized collections of resources that include Eastern European/Russian materials. Most of these collections are pan-European, and some of them are cited elsewhere in this guide.
Osmikon
French
Czech
other
1917 Russian Revolutions in Newspaper Reports
Newspaper reports from different countries in different languages on the Russian Revolution in 1917.
1917
repression
Baltic Germans
satire
World War II
Selected covers of the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus that reflect historical events in Eastern Europe in the 20th century.
Питирим Сорокин: избранная переписка (Pitirim Sorokin: selected correspondence)
Pitirim Sorokin
sociology
scholarship
Selected personal correspondence of Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American sociologist and political activist.
P. P. Krotov
USA
Stalinism
Constitution
law
legal source
Collection of English translations of Soviet documents and leaders' speeches on the Russian Revolution, the establishment of the Bolshevik power, and Stalinism.
Fordham University
Нюрнбергский процесс: Сборник материалов. В 8 т. (Nuremberg Trials: Document Collection in 8 Volumes.)
World War Ⅱ
Digital versions of the 8-volume document collection on the Nuremberg Trials, published in Moscow from 1987-1999.
Iuridicheskaia literatura
France
Андрей Платонов [материалы] (Andrei Platonov [Material])
Andrei Platonov
Collection of manuscripts, photographs, documents, and video clips about Andrei Platonov.
Platonov group of IMLI RAN headed by Corresponding Member N. V. Korniienko
Turkmenistan
Библиотека [Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский] (Library [Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii])
Felix Dzerzhinskii
Anastas Mikoian
Selected works by and about Felix Dzerzhinskii, a Bolshevik revolutionary and official.
A module on the website of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education that contains information on the history of German-speaking populations in Russia (and the Soviet Union more broadly) during the 20th century. A section of this module contains primary source documents from the post-World War II Soviet Union that detail the efforts of Soviet German activists to advance the legal rehabilitation of Germans in the U.S.S.R.
German Federal Agency for Civic Education
Volga German ASSR
Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen (History of the Volga Germans)
nationalities policy
A site created by Russian enthusiast of Volga German history Alexander Spak containing detailed information on the history of Volga German settlements until 1941, when the mass deportation of Soviet Germans to Siberia and Central Asia began amid the Nazi German invasion of the U.S.S.R., and on the fate of Germans thereafter. The site contains Soviet books about the Volga German ASSR, official documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Aleksandr Shpak
youth
A site collecting Soviet and Russian films. This site links to numerous free sites with Russian/Soviet films that can be watched online, sometimes with subtitles in English and a variety of other global languages.
Richard Wess
Japanese
Arabic
Публикации о творчестве А. Н. Пахмутова в интернете (Publications about A. N. Pakhmutova on the internet)
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Selected Soviet-era publications dedicated to Aleksandra Pakhmutova, a Soviet and Russian composer.
Roman Sinel'nikov
Aleksei Charykov
События в Семиречье 1916 года по документам российских архивов (The Events in the Semirechye in the Year 1916 in the Documents of Russian Archives)
Turkestan Revolt
Semirechye Revolt
Archival documents on the Semirechye Revolt in Russian Turkestan in 1916.
Rosarchiv
1916
Semirechye
Turkestan