HISTORY matters
This is a digital resource repository for researching Soviet history. It is developed by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. The COVID-19 pandemic and a series of events in the Post-Soviet Space, including Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, have had a huge impact on the study of Soviet history. As international travel and access to archives in the region become thorny problems for researchers, we find the use of digital resources especially important. This website aims to support research on Soviet history by providing guidance for using relevant digital primary source materials, including digital archives, published sources, oral history, and media materials.
Our website can be navigated through three resource collections: Online Open-Access Primary Source, English-language Primary Source, and Online Finding Aids for Post-Soviet Archives. Under each category, you will find further guides on how to use different types of materials. You can also search keywords to find relevant resources.
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Вопросы изучения и воспитания личности (Questions of the Study and Education of the Individual)
Electronic collections of the Moscow K. D. Ushinskii Scientific Pedagogical Library. It contains a number of digitized theoretical works by Russian…
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