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Russian Archives Online
"...is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, illustrations, and audio, along with supporting documents and text."

Archives in Russia
"The current fourteen federal archives administered by the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarkhiv)...Archives of major federal agencies that have the right by law to the long-term retention of their own records, including those of a more technical and specialized profile...Local municipal and oblast archives in Moscow and St Petersburg (Leningrad Oblast)."
Maintained by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with Rosarkhiv, the Federal Archival Service of Russia

The Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Internet Archive - (dead link) A good source for online texts

Marxists Internet Archive
"The Marxists Internet Archive provides the most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials."

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The Abdication of Nicholas II, March 15, 1917 (English translation)

Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule - (dead link)
Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research Monograph Series, 1989.
"Donated" to Carrie: A Full-Text Electronic Library, University of Kansas.
By H.B. Paksoy

The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907

Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, 16 March, 1921

Bibliography of Russian Women's Studies (1996)
From H-Russia discussion list

Bibliography of Russian Women's History (1998)
 From H-Russia discussion list

Birch-bark Document on Karelian Language - (dead link) "In 1957 while being excavations the birch-bark document on Karelian was discovered in Novgorod.
The document's text was written on Cyrillic alphabet and represents a pagan incantation for lighting...This document dates from the XIII th century. It is the oldest text on Karelian remained for us."

The 'Black Hundreds' Anti-Clerical Campaign - Lenin to Molotov, 19 March, 1922

The Chairman Smiles
Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
"This presentation is built around digitized images of 145
posters: 33 from the Soviet Union, 33 from Cuba and 79
from China."
International Institute of Social History Exhibit

The Decree on Peace, November 1917 - (dead link)
Published in Izvestiia, No. 208, October 27, 1917, p. 1.

The Emancipation Manifesto - (dead link)
March 3, 1741 - to free the serfs.

The Empire That Was Russia:
The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
Sections include: Photographer to the Tsar ; Architecture ; Ethnic Diversity ; Transportation ; People at Work.
A Library of Congress [U.S.] Exhibit

Excerpts from The Code of Law of 1649 (Ulozhenie) - (dead link)

Excerpts for The Domostroi (mid-16th century) - (dead link)
How to Educate Children and Bring Them Up In the Fear of God

Failings of the Russian Army Medical Service, 1914

The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention, August 18, 1892

From Marx to Mao
"My intention in setting up From Marx to Mao is not to "compete" with the MEIA, [Marx/Engles Internet Archive] which is an impossible task given the many volunteers who participate in that project, so much as it is to provide an on-line version of very important texts, most especially by Lenin, which are long, long overdue."
By Dave Romagnolo

George Washington University - The National Security Archive
"...an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

  • U.S. Intelligence on Russian and Chinese Nuclear Testing Activities, 1990-2000
    Prospects of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Led China to Accelerate Testing Schedule
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 200.
    Edited by Jeffrey Richelson, September 2006.
  • The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
    Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Year of the Cold War
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 192, May 2006.
  • The Kissinger Telcons: The Dobrynin File
    "Happy Birthday" Henry Kissinger
    "This selection of documents focuses on one of the most important groups of documents in the newly released Kissinger telcons--the record of high-level diplomacy with the chief representative of the number one adversary, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin."
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123, May 2004.
    Edited by Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya.
  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 76
    Edited by Malcolm Byrne, November 4, 2002
    "...is the first attempt to put together a major collection of these new materials, in addition to the significant number of items that appear here for the first time in any language, in a single volume. In all, the book consists of 120 documents and totals 598 pages."
  • The September 11th Sourcebooks
    National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War
    • Volume II: Afghanistan- Lessons from the Last War (October 9, 2001)
      "...Archive experts John Prados and Svetlana Savranskaya draw on declassified records and the memoirs of former Soviet officials to examine Soviet policymaking, military operations, and lessons learned from the last war in Afghanistan, a bloody, ten-year conflict that pitted Soviet military forces against CIA-backed Afghan rebels."

The German Declaration of War on Russia, August 1, 1914

Germany and The Soviet Union, November 1937 to July 1938
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

The History of Russian Navy
Online text.
From the Glorious Beginnings to the The Great War.

Ikons: Windows into Heaven - History

Intelligentsia - Lenin to Gorky, 15 September, 1919

Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar, 1894 - 1914 - (dead link)

Marxists Internet Archive
"The Marxists Internet Archive provides the most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. The Marxist Writers archive holds extensive databases of documents, photos, and biographies on a wide variety of Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg. The Marxist History archive contains original documents on the Paris Commune, the early history of the Soviet Union, the history of the Spanish Civil War and the Encyclopedia of Marxism; which contains biographies, terms, organizations, events, places and periodicals relevant to the history of Marxism. The Reference Writers archive holds non-Marxist authors, from Adam Smith to Albert Einstein; Joseph Stalin to Michael Bakunin, and features a large database on Hegel ... Archival information is material written by the authors themselves (primary sources), not interpretations or opinions of that material (secondary or tertiary sources). In our archive on history we only publish documents by people who experienced the events themselves (primary sources), not people interpreting or explaining their opinion of events they did not experience (secondary or tertiary sources) ..."

Manifesto of the Communist Party - (dead link)
From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels

Meeting of Frontiers (English or Russian)
"...is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest...It is intended for use in U.S. and Russian schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries. Scholars, particularly those who do not have ready access to major research libraries, also will benefit from the mass of primary material included in Meeting of Frontiers, much of which has never been published or is extremely rare.
- U.S. Library of Congress

"Napoleon in Russia: Saviour or Anti-Christ" - (dead link)
By Janet Hartley, Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics
Originally published in History Today, Vol. 41, 1991.

National Academy Press (free online versions)

"The Ninth Circle: The Lena Goldfield Workers and the Massacre of 4 April 1912" - (dead link)
By Michael Melancon; Originally published in Slavic Review, Fall 1994.

The October Manifesto of 1905 - (dead link)

Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP)
"The PHP is jointly conducted by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research in Zurich, the National Security Archive in Washington D.C., and the Institute of Military Studies in Vienna. It cooperates with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a growing number of associated institutions...In response to the progressing declassification of NATO documents and the growing availability of documents from the archives of the former Soviet bloc, the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP) seeks to collect, analyze, and interpret these premier sources for the study of contemporary international history"

  • The 1965 Warsaw Pact War Game Exercise - (dead link) (Hungarian with English translation)
    Released 29 November 2001
    "European Cities Targeted for Nuclear Destruction: Hungarian Documents on the Soviet Bloc War Plans, 1956-1971"

The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 3, 1918

Peter I's Table of Ranks - (dead link)

Programme of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905 - (dead link)

Russian Archives Online
"...is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, illustrations, and audio, along with supporting documents and text."

Russian Empire, Keystone-Mast Collection, 1895-1910 - (dead link)
"...900 stereoscopic photographs of Russia in the Keystone-Mast collection...This database provides access to detailed textual descriptions, city maps, images as enlargements, stereoscopic views and significant details useful in architectural analysis. The graphical user interface also lends itself to bilingual presentation in Russian and English."
California Museum of Photography - (dead link), University of California, Riverside

The Russian Post-Emancipation Household: Two Villages in the Moscow Area
1995 Master Thesis in History (University of Bergen) by Herdis Kolle

Russian Primary Chronicle: Princess Olga
By Prof. Steeves, Stetson University

Slavic Review Online - (dead link)Electronic post-print editions.

St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles ( November 29 - December 11, 1748)

The Tatars: A 13 Century Description
"Tatar control of the Russian lands lasted almost two and one-half centuries and had very important, far-reaching consequences. The following description of the Tatars was written in 1243."
From the Medieval Sourcebook

Ten Days That Shook the World
By John Reed. 1922
"The first-person chronicle of a lengendary [sic] journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century."
From Bartleby.com

Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America (June 20, 1747) - (dead link)

Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905

Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians, October 6, 1915

Academic Discussion Lists

H-EarlySlavic Discussion Network
"...is a forum for the discussion of Slavic history, literature, and culture before 1725. It is focused primarily on East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian) regions, though West and South Slavic areas will also be considered. H-EarlySlavic is a scholarly list: it is aimed at professional scholars and their students. The languages of the list are Belorussian, English, French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian."

H-Russia Discussion Network
"...encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids."

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