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A website with numerous full-text thick journals from the 1920s. It is part of a website on 20th-century Russian (primarily Soviet) literature supported by the Soros Fund.
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Site with numerous documents (including directives, soldiers' personal documents, instructions, etc.) for Red Army soldiers, many of them from 1917-1945. The site is run by a group of colleagues led by Mikhailovskaia Artillery Military Academy scholar V. M. Mil'bakh.
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Digital library of the Tomsk State University, providing open access to digitized university publications, archival documents, and other types of materials.
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Website of the Archival Service of Voronezh Oblast. It includes a number of small exhibits on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the oblast, as well as a commemorative page on the Great Patriotic War.
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Electronic archive of Udmurtiia on the site of the Archives of Udmurtiia. It contains documents from Udmurt history in the Soviet period, focusing on documents about municipal and local governance.
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Webpage with resources for the study of Soviet history on the site of the Brigham University Harold B. Lee Library. It contains a list of links to various open access resources with documents, photographs, and audio recordings in both Russian and English.
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A digital map preservation project which presents numerous digitized high-resolution maps of the USSR.
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Open-access archive of the CIA, containing a large number of declassified CIA reports, leaked Soviet documents, oral history, etc.
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Digital collection and institutional research repository that captures, preserves, and disseminates the intellectual property created within the Saint Petersburg State University community. It provides free access to the digital copies of more than six thousand Soviet-era publications, including…
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A website on the Venev Uezd in Tula Oblast containing local historical sources, including books and newspapers.
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A digital project with 1000 key documents in Russian and Soviet history.
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A site with a huge number of diaries and memoirs from the Soviet period from a variety of people, including masses of ordinary citizens, on daily economic, social, cultural, and political life.
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A site with a variety of documents and objects relating to Europe and its history and culture. The Russian collections contain a sporadic group of materials on Soviet daily life and culture.
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A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Vladimir Lenin from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Nikita Khrushchev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Leonid Brezhnev from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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A digital collection of archival documents about the life and work of Yuri Andropov from the exhibition series "Leaders of the Soviet Period" created by the Federal Archival Agency and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
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A site created by the Russian Federal Archival Agency that provides open access to a large number of Soviet archival documents from state and party organs, socio-political organizations, and personal fonds. It also contains two document collections decicated to the Great Patriotic War and the…
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An exhibit with 100 rare and famous documents on Russian statehood, which includes three categories on the Soviet period.
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Digital archive of the Ural Federal University, containing digitized publications of the university, including monographs, textbooks, articles, dissertations, etc. The archive also has digital copies of Soviet-era local newspapers and journals, such as "Stalinets" and "Za industrial'nye kadry".
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Digital archive of more than 6700 digital copies of FBI documents. One can find records of the Operation SOLO and investigations of Soviet spies in this archive.
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Online editions of Russian emigres periodicals.
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A site with memoirs and diaries from various historical figures, including many famous or obscure individuals from the Soviet period.
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Russian-language archival document collections of the National Security Archive, containing extensive archival documents on different topics.
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The virtual reading room of the National Security Archive (George Washington University), containing documents about American-Soviet relations, the Cold War, and other Soviet events relevant to U.S. national security.
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A Dutch-Russian joint project containing Russian historical statistics from the imperial and Soviet periods.
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A page with primary documents on 20th century Russia on the site of the History Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, including numerous major official documents.
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Digitized memoirs about Lenin.
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Online database of laws of the USSR from 1917 till 1991.
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Digital collections of Soviet children's books, avant-garde pieces, journal editions, photographs and documents on daily life, and other types of historical materials that reflect Soviet life in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Digital collection of a number of Soviet newspapers.
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Demographic data of the former Soviet states as well as other world countries provided by the Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economy. Here you can find different demographic indicators for 15 former Soviet states in different years and detailed Soviet census data.
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Digital collection of documents on Russian Marxists, Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and Soviet power. Here you can find transcripts of Politburo meetings between 1925-1927, a time that saw shifting power relations between Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev; a 1922 article on the creation of the Red…
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A website dedicated to Lenin and Leninism, where you can find digitized books and articles, memoirs, and studies on Lenin, many of which were published during the Soviet times. You can also download the digitized full collection of Lenin's works on this website.
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Digital archive that holds plenty of US documents related to the Soviet Union.
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Digital library of the Ushinskii Pedagogical Library, containing digital copies of Soviet-era books and periodicals related to pedagogy and education.
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Digital information system that provides free access to digital texts of Russian literary works and folklore, and scholarly research and encyclopedic information on them.
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A huge digital library dedicated to Marxism around the world.
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Full catalog of books and monographs published by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
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Full catalog of publications of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the publications are freely downloadable from the website.
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Multifunctional information system designed to provide information resources for research on a wide range of issues of the evolution of labor relations in Russia, including labor legislation, wages, insurance and social security of workers, labor conflicts, etc. Here you can find Soviet-era…
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Digital exhibits of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.
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A huge digital library dedicated to Turkic-related topics. The website has four versions in Arabic, Turkish, English, and Uyghur, and each version presents books and periodicals in its respective language. One can find plentiful interesting publications on Muslims and Islam in Central Asia and the…
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A multi-media archive of primary source materials designed to introduce students and the general public to the richness and contradictions of Soviet history. It provides a cross-section of Soviet life in seventeen different years, following the title of a beloved television spy serial from the…
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Digital book collection of the National Electronic Library of the Udmurt Republic.
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Declassified National Security Agency (U.S.A.) documents of the Venona program.
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Digital library of the Omsk State A. S. Pushkin Scientific Library.
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Digital map collections and geographical databases on Russia, East and Southeast Europe
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Images, photographs, and video material on Russia, East and Southeast Europe.
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