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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 August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union - (dead link)
A Minute-by-Minute Chronology

Bakhtin Center Home Page
University of Sheffield

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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).

  • 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 Submarines of October
    U.S. and Soviet Naval Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis
    National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 75
    William Burr and Thomas S. Blanton, Editors, October 31, 2002
    "The documents that follow, culled mostly from the U.S. Navy's operational archives, show how U.S. destroyers and patrol aircraft pursued Soviet submarines during the crisis and after it had subsided, in November."
  • 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."
    • Volume V: Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979
      U.S. Intelligence on the Deadliest Modern Outbreak
      National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 61
      Edited by Robert A. Wampler and Thomas S. Blanton, November 15, 2001

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

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) ..."

National Academy Press (free online versions)

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"

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."

Soviet Archives Exhibit
"This Library of Congress Soviet Archives exhibition is important for what it represents, what it contains, and what it suggests."

Soviet Leaders - (dead link)

Texas Tech University Chornobyl Page - (dead link) (English, Russian or Ukrainian)
Includes bibliography, publications, and conclusions from Chernobyl Research Project.
By A. Pocheptsova

Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution Resources
"Here you will find a variety of links to primary sources, pages dedicated to the House of Romanov, e-texts, as well as interpretative essays on the Revolution itself."
By Steven Kreis

The Russian Revolution, February - October 1917 - (dead link)
"Lectures 5 and 6 serve as a narrative history of the Russian Revolution and are not replacements for a more in-depth treatment of such an important event. For more information, please make sure you take a look at my [Steven Kreis] RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - (dead link) page of resources."

The Russian Revolution of 1917 - (dead link)
Survey by Prof. Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College from his Stalin's Russia - (dead link) page.

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


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

Lenin's "April Theses" (1917) - (dead link)

Lunacharsky on Lenin - (dead link)
From Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky's Revolutionary Silhouettes
"I shall only refer to what I know of him from our personal relations and to my own direct impressions of the man."

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



Stalin
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

Joseph Stalin
Brief biography from Grolier's Encyclopedia

Joseph Stalin Reference Archive, 1879-1953
Includes: Biography ; Works ; Images ; Links

Stalin's Russia - (dead link)A Study in Totalitarianism and Autocracy
Course page by Prof. Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College

The Commissar Vanishes
The Falsification of Photos in Stalin's Russia
From the Newseum

Potsdam Conference
From The American Experience - Presidents
U.S. perspective from Walter LaFeber

Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 1945)
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School  

WWII Era
The Moscow Conference, October 1943
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Yalta (Crimea) Conference (February 1945)
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

The Post-War Soviet - U.S. Agreement on Food Shipments to Russia, 19 October, 1920

Potsdam Conference
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Potsdam Conference
From The American Experience - Presidents
U.S. perspective from Walter LaFeber

Brezhnez Era
Leonid Brezhnez
On the Occasion of his 90th Birthday
From Amber Tours, Russian Travel Service

Brezhnez: A Stagnation Age Leader
By Roy Medvedev, Working Class and Modern World, No. 6, 1988

Foreign Relations of the United States : 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

1977 Constitution of the USSR
(Fundamental Law of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Afghanwar 1979-1989 - (dead link)
By Vladimir Grigoriev

Andrei Sakharov, 1921-1989 - (dead link)  

Gorbachev Era
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
 Timeline from Soviet Leaders - (dead link) page

Perestroika
From the Soviet Archives Exhibit

Gorbachev : Time Magazine's 1987 Man of the Year

Gorbachev : 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

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).

  • 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."
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