The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
With no less than 500,000 pages, the collection’s core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
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.
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Video platform dedicated exclusively to cinema from Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia. You can expect to find cinema from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, Baltics and Eastern Europe.
The films are ranging from silent classics through to the Soviet era and into the 2010s. This collection includes both feature films and documentaries. There is a permanent film library plus bi-weekly screenings of contemporary films from the region. The Klassiki platform also includes a journal featuring news, interviews, articles and essays from filmmakers, experts, critics and the Klassiki team to give our members exclusive behind the scenes access to the historical and contemporary landscape of cinema from the region.
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.
This collection traces the history of Ukraine between 1919-1939 covering the establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; rapid Soviet collectivization of agriculture in the Ukrainian SSR that triggered the Holodomor: a famine that started in 1932 and killed millions of Ukrainians and other events leading to the WWII. Comprising over 50,000 pages and five titles, this collection includes newspapers from three cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv in both Russian and Ukrainian.