HIST 423W: Islam in Russia

"The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions." - https://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/static/collections/hpsss/index.html

"This project consists of ten digitized English language travel accounts by persons who journeyed through Muslim regions of the Russian Empire." - https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AIslamEurasia

"The aim of the project is to make the handwritten heritage of the Russian Federation as accessible as possible for scientists, students and postgraduates of specialized Universities, as well as for everyone." - http://manuscriptaislamica.ru/en/about

"The Online Primary Sources database aims to provide researchers and students with sources from Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern and Central Europe put online in recent years thanks to intensive library digitization policies in these zones as well as in the West." - https://onlineprimarysources.cercec.fr/about

This is a list of digital collections put together by the Peripheral Histories? team.

Provides "from the Central Historical Archives of Georgia and the State Historical Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan related to the institutionalization of Islam in the Transcaucasian provinces."

"Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. " - https://islamperspectives.org/rpi/

"Visual propaganda played an enormous role in the history of the 20th century. In contrast to the 19th century, it was aimed not only at the educated classes of the mother countries but also at the masses in the colonies of the great powers, including vast territories in the east and south of the former Russian Empire." - https://islamperspectives.org/rpi/exhibits/show/one