Russian Art Gallery - Советский период (Russian Art Gallery - Soviet Period)
culture
art
fine arts
literature & arts
Digital collection of Soviet-era fine art works.
Russian Art Gallery
Link to the Resource
Digital collection
Russian
USSR
Russia
Электронные версии газет - Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского (Digital Versions of Newspapers - Saratov State University)
press
propaganda
everyday life
political institution
Party organization
Red Army
law
legal source
Digital newspaper collection of the Saratov State University, containing editions of local official party newspaper.
Saratov State University
Saratov Oblast
Библиотека Михаила Грачева (Library of Mikhail Grachev)
political science
history
science
religion
Great Patriotic War
cybernetics
A private digital library that contains digital transcriptions of many contemporary and Soviet books and articles on politics, history, law, and cybernetics.
Library of Mikhail Grachev
Digital library
Revolution
Russian Civil War
women
children
family
World War Ⅱ
intellectual
theater
Cold War
literature
Sino-Soviet relations
music
foreign relations
nuclear war
economy
Full-text digital archive of The Atlantic, containing all of its issues from 1857 till today. The journal extensively reported on the Soviet Union on various topics. More than 3000 articles on the Soviet Union can be found in the digital archive.
The Atlantic
Digital archive
English
USA
China
Germany
Far East
arms race
Leningrad Blockade
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marshall Malinovskii
Politburo
Nuremberg Trials
Surrender of Japan
Churchill
Online document exhibitions of the Russian Historical Society.
Russian Historical Society
Japan
France
КарикаТур в историю (CaricaTour into History)
caricature
Sino-Russian relations
Russia-Japan relations
ideology
World War I
language reform
Karl Marx
satire
Lenin
Thematic collections of Russian and Soviet caricature works.
pre-1917 to 2000
Gulag
NKVD
political repression
dekulakization
Great Terror
KGB
secret police
deportation
labor
personal narrative
Oral history project of the Museum of Gulag history that recollects memories of the people who were affected by Soviet political repressions. Interviewees include the repressed themselves, their children, former NKVD members, Children of NKVD members, the dekulakized, deportees, and labor armyists.
The Museum of Gulag history
Digital project
Kazakhstan
Siberia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Baltics
Ukraine
История.рф [документы] (History of the Russian Federation [Documents])
Soviet-Japanese War
A set of archival documents on different events during the Great Patriotic War.
Russian Military-Historical Society
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Caucasus
Photograph collection on the Great Patriotic War.
Austria
Bulgaria
Hungary
Moldova
Norway
Romania
Yugoslavia
Manchuria
Виртуальные выставки РНБ (Virtual Exhibitions of the Russian National Library)
fashion
general
festival
cartography
Yuri Gagarin
Virtual exhibitions of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other published and unpublished materials from the Russian National Library.
Russian National Library
Online exhibition
Дорога к победе: Плакаты и открытки Великой Отечественной войны (The Path to Victory: Posters and Postcards of the Great Patriotic War)
Virtual exhibition of Soviet posters produced during the Second World War.
Виртуальные выставки - Мемориальный музей-заповедник истории политических репрессий «Пермь-36» (Virtual Exhibitions of the Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36")
Stalinism
Khrushchev
censorship
camp
Online exhibitions of the Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36, mostly dedicated to Soviet political repressions.
Memorial Museum-Reserve of the History of Political Repressions "Perm-36"
Perm Oblast
Запасная столица. к 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. (An Emergency Capital: 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War)
Samara
evacuation
Online exhibition dedicated to the WWⅡ experience of Samara.
Russian State Archive in Samara
Репрессированные изобретатели: Выставка архивных документов (Purged Inventors: An Archival Exhibit)
technology
Purges
Online exhibition dedicated to the repressed scientists and scholars of the USSR.
К 100-летию принятия плана ГОЭЛРО. Инновационный план и его реализация. Выставка архивных документов. (GOELRO: An Innovative Plan and its Realization: A 100th Anniversary of GEORLO Archival Exhibit.)
industry
GOERLO
Online document exhibition dedicated to the history of GOELRO (State Commission for Electrification of Russia).
light industry
consumption
Online document exhibition dedicated to the fashion industry in the USSR.
Здравствуй, Новый год! Выставка архивных документов (Happy New Year!: An Archival Exhibit)
leisure
Online document exhibition dedicated to the New Year celebration in the USSR.
Голоса выдающихся советских военачальников Великой Отечественной войны (The Voices of Prominent Soviet Military Leaders of the Great Patriotic War)
military leaders
Collection of audio recordings from prominent Soviet military officers.
Russian State Archive of Audio Documents
Восстановление экономики Крыма. 1944-1950 гг. Документы из фондов РГАЭ (Rebuilding the Crimean Economy, 1944-1950. Documents of the Russian State Archive of Economy)
occupation
electrical industry
infrastructure
agriculture
recreation
transportation
Document exhibition on the postwar economic recovery of Crimea.
Russian State Archive of Economy
Crimea
Памятные даты российской экономики (Important Dates in the History of the Russian Economy )
Commissariat of Internal and Foreign Trade
Commissariat of Water Transport
Committee of Forestry
Surveys
Cartography
Commissariat of Rubber Production
Geology
Chemistry
Metallurgy
Ministry of Auto and Tractor Production
State Scientific-Economic Counsel
Engineering
Counsel for Economic Mutual Aid
aviation
invention
environment
railroad
Document exhibition on significant milestones in Soviet and Russian economic life.
Stalin
political leader
personal cult
Oral history project on the death of Stalin. The project has collected more than 100 witness accounts on what happened on the day of Stalin's death.
1953
Австрия. Цена освобождения (Austria: The Cost of Liberation)
liberation of Austria
Documentary film on the liberation of Austria in the Second World War, in which Russian archival documents are presented.
Russian State Archive of Socio-political History
1945
German
В штабах Победы: К 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне (In the Headquarters of Victory: The 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War)
Documentary film on the Great Patriotic War, in which Russian archival documents are presented.
Участвуем в святом деле спасения Родины. Власть, церковь, казачество в годы Великой Отечественной Войны. (Participate in the Sacred Duty of Saving the Motherland. State, church, and Cossacks in the years of the Great Patriotic War)
church
Cossack
Document collection on the role of Russian Orthodox Church and Cossacks in the Great Patriotic War.
Digital document collection
中苏联合抗击法西斯胜利70周年档案展 (Historical-Documentary Exhibition on the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of China and the Soviet Union in Collective Struggle Against Fascism)
foreign policy
Sino-Japanese War
Collective online exhibition of the State Archives Administration of the PRC and Russian Federal Archival Agency on the Sino-Soviet cooperation during the Second World War.
The State Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Chinese
Выставки Российского государственного военного архива (Exhibits of the Russian State Military Archive)
military
Felix Dzerzhinskii
international relations
Soviet-Japanese relations
Mongol People's Republic
Empire of Manchuria
citizens' militia
Vasilii Chapaev
sport
Cheka
Online exhibitions of the Russian State Military Archive.
Russian State Military Archive
Asia
Власть и интеллигенция в сибирской провинции: Сборник документов (Power and the Intelligentsia in a Siberian Province: Document Collection)
intelligentsia
modernization
PDF version of a 4-volume document collection on intelligentsia in Soviet Siberia.
State Archive of Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast
За науку в Сибири Архив (For Science in Siberia Archive)
scholarship
Digital archive of the Soviet newspaper "Za nauku v Sibiri"
Science in Siberia: Publisher of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Revolution
politics
Digital archive of the Russian newspaper "Sibirskaia zhizn'" from 1894 to 1919.
Scientific Library of Tomsk State University
Tomsk Oblast
Виртуальные выставки Научной библиотеки Томского государственного университета (Virtual exhibitions of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University)
education
Online exhibitions of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University, some of which are dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
Газетные старости: обзор русских газет начала ХХ века... В этот день, но 100 лет тому назад... (Old Newspaper: An Overview of Russian Newspapers of the Beginning of the XX Century... This Day, but 100 Years Ago...)
Selections of Russian newspaper clippings on various issues in the early 20th century.
Sergei Danilovich Sokurenko
中国第二历史档案馆档案查询 (Archive Search of the Second Historical Archives of China)
trade
Digital archive of the Second Historical Archives of China, currently containing digital copies of the documents of the Beiyang government and the digital catalog of documents from the Ministry of Education of the Guomindang government. A few documents are related to Soviet Russia and are available online. More items will likely be added to the digital archive in the future.
The Second Historical Archives of China
Подполковник Морозов Д. А. Воспоминания участника обороны и разгрома немцев в Советском Заполярье (октябрь 1944 года). Мурманск-Петрозаводск. 5 июля 1963 года. (Lieutenant Colonel Morozov D.A. Recollections of a participant in the Defense and Defeat of the Germans in the Soviet Arctic (October 1944). Murmansk-Petrozavodsk. July 5, 1963.)
Soviet Arctic
Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel Morozov D.A. on the defense and defeat of the Germans in the Soviet Arctic in October 1944.
Sergei Mikhailovich Semienov
1944
Arctic
Murmansk
Литература [махно.ru] (Literature [makhno.ru])
Nestor Makhno
Green Army
peasantry
Digital collection of Nestor Makhn's works, including his memoirs, articles, and studies on him.
Sergei Shvedov et al.
"Охматмлад" и "Дети республики." Идеология и практика социальной политики в Енисейской губернии в 1920-е гг. ("Okhmatmlad" and "Deti Respubliki." Ideology and Practice of Social Policies in Yeniseysk Guberniia in the 1920s. )
motherhood
parenthood
social policies
childcare
Document collection on early Soviet social policies on children, motherhood, and family from 1920 to 1930.
Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Дневник Романа Васильевича Ушакова, 1908 года рождения (The Diary of Roman Vasil'evich Ushakov, born in 1908)
depeasantization
Diary entries of a deported Kurgan peasant from 1932.
South Urals Association of Amateur Genealogists in the city of Chelyabinsk
1932
socialist realism
A private database of socialist realist music and popular music related to ideology and patriotism. The section "rechi" (bottom left in white) includes some audio recordings of speeches by Soviet leaders.
Советский Союз: взлет сверхдержавы (The Soviet Union: The Rise of a Superpower)
Treaty of Rapallo
Soviet constitution
statehood
nationalities
show trial
Congress of Soviets
Winter War
Soviet-Finnish relations
industrialization
letter
A large informal website with numerous categories of interest. For instance, of interest are the sections "dokumenty" (under "materialy"), "zimnaia voina: propaganda (under "materialy"), "pis'ma" (under "materialy"), "plakaty," "fotografii." The site also has Stalin's collected works, but these may be found from more reputable sources.
Europe
Сибирская трагедия, к 100-летию начала гражданской войны (A Siberian Tragedy: The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Civil War)
Online exhibition dedicated to the Russian Civil War in Siberia.
State Archival Administration of Novosibirsk Oblast
Алтайский округ в Первой мировой войне (Altai okrug in the First World War)
World War Ⅰ
Online exhibition of archival documents on the Altai region during the first World War.
State Archive of Altai Krai
Altai Krai
Рождение края. Деятельность Оргкомитета ВЦИК по Алтайскому краю. 1937-1939. (Сборник документов) (The Birth of a Region. The Activity of the Organizing Committee of the VTsIK of the Altai Krai. 1937-1939. (Document Collection).)
state
Altai Region
Organizing Committee of the VTsIK
Online document collection on the activities of the Organizing Committee of the VTsIK of Altai Krai, 1937-1939.
蔣經國留俄回憶錄 (1925-1937) (Chiang Ching-kuo's memoir on his days in Soviet Russia (1925-1937))
diplomacy
Chinese migrants
English transcription of the memoir of Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek's son) on his study experience in Soviet Russia during 1925-1937.
Academia Historica (Taiwan)
Электронные издания БУ "Государственный архив современной истории Чувашской Республики" (Electronic Publications of the State Archive of the Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic)
Chuvash
youth
Ilia Prokopiev
Aleksandr Terentiev
Cheboksary
great Patriotic War
Online exhibitions and digitized document collections published by the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic.
State Archive of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic
Chuvash Republic
СВАГ и немецкие органы самоуправления, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration of Germany and German Organs of Self-Government, 1945-1949)
Soviet Military Administration of Germany
occupation of Germany
German self-government
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection.
State Archive of the Russian Federation
East Germany
Деятельность Управления СВАГ по изучению достижений немецкой науки и техники в Советской зоне оккупации Германии, 1945-1949 (The Activity of the Leadership of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany in Studying the Achievements of German Science and Technology in the Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949)
This collection is from a series of collections about the SMAG. This series also includes referential material that explains the structure of SMAG, which is not linked in this guide since it is not a document collection
СВАГ и религиозные конфессии Советской зоны оккупации Германии, 1945-1949 (The Soviet Military Administration in Germany and Religious Confessions of the Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949)
Журналы заседаний, стенографические отчеты и материалы Совета Министров Российского правительства А. В. Колчака (Transcripts of Meetings, Reports, and Materials of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Government of A. V. Kolchak)
Alexander Kolchak
Журналы заседаний Особого совещания при Главнокомандующем Вооруженными Силами на Юге России А.И. Деникине (Transcripts of the Meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin)
Anton Denikin
Transcripts of the meetings of the Special Council under the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A. I. Denikin
Заключенные на стройках коммунизма. ГУЛАГ и объекты энергетики в СССР. (Prisoners at the Building Sites of Communism: The Gulag and Energy Facilities in the USSR)
energy industry
Document collection dedicated to Gulag prisoners who built Soviet energy facilities.
Выставки Государственного архива Владимирской области (Exhibitions of the State Archive of Vladimir Oblast)
home front
Procuracy
justice
archive
urban history
Online exhibitions of archival documents from the State Archive of Vladimir Oblast. Topics include two World Wars, Russian Revolution, local intellectuals, etc.
State Archive of Vladimir Oblast
Vladimir Oblast