Contains a complete run of Iskusstvo Kino, the leading film studies journal in Russia and the former Soviet Union, from its inception in 1931 under the title Proletarskoe kino to 2011. The database offers browsing by issue, keyword-searchable full text, and high-resolution scanned pages of the original print version.
Searchable full-text and page images of the Russian newspaper Pravda, from its founding in 1912 to 2019.
Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper, and it soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.
Founded in 1995 in New York City, V Novom Svete (В Новом Свете, In the New World) was the most popular weekly newspaper among the fourth wave of immigrants from the former USSR, which began in the late 1980s. V Novom Svete published interviews with contemporary political and cultural leaders of modern Russia, as well as pieces on the life of the Russian community in the United States. V Novom Svete ceased publication in May 2022. This archive includes issues from 1995 to 2022.
"This adaptable ‘continuous book’ with its multimedia content is intended to scale up as current research progresses into the forced displacement of people from the vast area of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet empire. New data and analyses will be added from time to time."
"Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives presents an in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filled with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study."
"The Gulag Online Museum was created in 2009 by historians and political activists to present a virtual tour of gulag camps. Its virtual museum “present[s] the basic form and dimensions of Soviet repression through a virtual reconstruction of a Gulag camp, specific life stories, selected objects, documents and texts."
This is a portal to primary source collections from the European Countries. This set of documents focus on the Russian history from the ancient time to the present.
"Letters from Russian prisons : consisting of reprints of documents by political prisoners in Soviet prisons, prison camps and exile, and reprints of affidavits concerning political persecution in Soviet Russia, official statements by Soviet authorities, excerpts from Soviet laws pertaining to civil liberties, and other documents."
This "is a multi-media archive of primary 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 seventies. Each module covers politics, society, culture and economics, so that users might experience a given time through the words, sounds and sights that a common Soviet citizen would have encountered." - https://soviethistory.msu.edu/about/
"The online collection comprises visual images of photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc. relating to Stalin/ism." - https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/stalinka-digital-library-staliniana
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