A selection of resource sites available on line.
Navigation links for this page:
Russian and East European Centers History Sites Russian Culture Sites
News Sites Maps of Russia Organizations Related to Russian and Soviet History
Hickey's Library and General Research Resources Page
Hickey's European and Jewish History Resource Page
Hickey's World History Resources Page
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Russian and East European Centers (With Links To Resources)
Bucknell Russian Studies (one of the best sites in the US, with links to history, language, and culture resources; much course-useful material)
Cornell University Institute for European Studies (a large list of links to other East European Studies centers)
Durham University Department of Slavonic Studies Russian Home Page (a smaller site, but with very good links)
Hokkaido University Russian Net Resources (perhaps the best site for links to Russian and East European on-line resources)
Indiana University Russian and East European Institute (includes good links to WWW resources and newsgroups)
Ohio State University Center for Slavic & East European Studies (includes K-12 teaching links on Russian and Soviet History)
University of Pittsburgh REES Web (the main US hub for links to Russian and East European on-line resources)
University of Texas at Austin Russian and East European Network (another major hub for links to all sorts of Russian and East European on-line resources)
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Selected Russian History Sites With Links
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History (an amazing collection of documents, images, sound files, and film clips)
Alexander Palace Time Machine (documents, text, and images of the Romanovs)
Annenberg/CBS Russia Exhibit (an introduction, with materials on 20th century Russia)
Arkadia (website devoted to the history of the Russian landlord estates, with text and images, posted by John Randolph)
Benjamin Sher's Russian Index (an outstanding list of links on all topics; a good place to start any search for on-line resources related to Russia)
Beyond the Pale: A History of Russia's Jews (images and text--in addition to the exhibit, very good web links)
The Cold War at Home and Abroad (a course-related set of links to documents and images posted by Shannon Smith at Oregon State University)
Cold War, Soviet and Related History Documents (links from California State University San Marcos)
The Collapse of the USSR: Ten Years On (a BBC site with good quality eye-witness reports, maps, a timeline, and photos)
Durham University Russian History Links (excellent links to many documents and essays)
The Empire That Was Russia (The Library of Congress exhibit of Prukudin-Gorskii's early color photographs of Imperial Russia)
Ferraro's Russian Links (links to documents and essays posted by Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College)
The Great Terror in the Provinces of the USSR, 1937-38: A Cooperative Bibliography (from H-Russia, compiled by Marc Junge, Rolf Binner, and Terry Martin)
Funet {Finland} Russian Archive (links to pages in English and Russian on various topics)
Harvard Project on Cold War Studies (Cold War-related archival documents, in Russian)
Illustrated History of Russia (links to pages of historical illustrations compiled by Friends and Partners--a rather old page with some dead links)
Imperial Russia 1862-1918 (a list of names, dates, and Russian terms prepared for a Richard Wortman's course at Columbia University
Internet Resources for Russian Studies (an excellent set of annotated links compiled by Natasha Lyandres and Deborah Stanley for the American Library Association)
The J. V. Stalin Internet Library (English translations of works by Stalin, posted by David J. Romagnolo, who also hosts a Marx/Engels Internet Library, a V. I. Lenin Internet Library, and a Mao Internet Library)
The Khazaria Info Center (resources for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine)
The Lenin Internet Archive (English translations and original language-versions of works by Lenin, photographs and other materials, from the Marxist Internet Archive)
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive (English translations and original language-versions of works by Trotsky, photographs and other materials, from the Marxist Internet Archive)
Revolution in Russian Society, 1900-1921: Bibliography (an excellent bibliography of works in English posted by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron at the University of Manchester)
Russian Empire, 1895-1910 (photographs from stereoscopic negatives in the Keystone-Mast Collection at The University of California Riverside)
Russian Legal Server (very useful page on Russian law and legal research by Ilya Nikiforov and Mark Sanor, posted by the organization "Friends and Partners")
Russian Revolution Links (links to essays on various topics, posted by David Barnsdale)
Russian History: Starting Points for Internet Research (a good guide to sites from Penn State Lehigh Valley)
Slavophilia (a Slavic and East European internet resource site with very good links)
Soviet Archives Exhibit (an excellent selection of translated documents from central archives from an exhibit at the Library of Congress)
Subject Guide to Russian History Internet and Print Sources (useful search links from McGill U.)
Tennessee Tech Russian History Links (an outstanding list of Russian history related links)
Translations of the Laws of Rus' (several of the major pre-Imperial law codes, translated and posted by Daniel Kaiser)
Village Reports on Ethnic Germans in the USSR (1941-43) (documents produced for the German Minister of Occupied Eastern Territories during World War Two, posted by Judith Rempel of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society)
Yahoo-Russian Humanities Links (links to materials for a general audience)
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Some Russian Culture Sites
Bucknell Russian Studies (one of the best US sites on Russia)
Dazhdbog's Granchildren (interesting general site with links to pages on news and culture, posted by Sergei Naoumov)
Entertaining Tsarist Russia (materials from and supplements to the Von Geldern and McReynolds volume on the history of popular culture in Imperial Russia, 1917-1917)
The Hermitage State Museum (English language museum site of the Hermitage in St. Peteresburg, with virtual exhibits and images)
Luke Springman's Home Page (good links from Bloomsburg's Russian language professor)
Ohio State University CSEES Film Library Site (catalog of OSU's Russian film collection)
The Russian State Museum (English language museum site of the Russian State Museum in Moscow, with virtual exhibits and images)
Russian Religion News (from the Stetson University Department of History)
Stalinist Posters & Political Art (1930-1953) (a course-related page posted by Gregory Freidin at Stanford University)
Russian Posters, 1914-1953 (a collection posted by Victoria Bonnell at Berkley University)
Revolution by Design: The Soviet Poster (a commercial site from the International Poster Gallery)
Some Posters from Soviet Union (from the Funet Russian Archives)
The Chairman Smiles: Soviet Posters (a fine site from the Institute of Social History that also features posters from Cuba and China)
Window to Russia (a rather dated Moscow-based bilingual site with information on "contemporary" culture and religion)
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Some Russian News Sites
Interfax News Agency (in English)
Moscow Times (in English)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Online (in English)
Russia Today (in English)
St.Petersburg Times (in English)
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Some Sites with Maps of Russia
City Maps and Town Plans of Russia (a commercial site from Generations Press)
FEEFHS East European Map Room: Russian Empire- Europe (from the Federation of East European Family History Societies)
Friends and Partners Map Links (a map links page from the organization Friends and Partners)
The
University of Texas Perry-Castaņeda Library
Map Collection (a good collection of contemporary
maps
of Russia and the Former Soviet Republics--see also
their collection of historical
maps)
Ekskursii Travel Site Maps List (maps of Russia and the FSU Republics)
Mapquest (a commercial site)
Yahoo
list of maps on Russia (a commercial site)
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Organizations Related to Russian History
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (includes links to Russian studies materials and to other important organizations in Slavic studies)
American Historical Association (includes links to documentary materials and to other organizations)
Institute for Cooperative Social Initiatives (A Soros Foundation "Open Societies" -related program, in Russian)
International Institute of Social History (in Amsterdam, site includes indexes of their important archival collections as well as links to exhibits)
International Research and Exchange Commission (IREX) (an organization that arranges research exchanges with Eurasian countries)
Jewish Studies in Russia (English page with links from the Russian Association of Jewish Studies Students)
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (a major Russian studies institute with links to internal and external resources)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (supports scholarship world wide, with an office in Moscow)
Russian Archives Database (Archeo-Biblio Base) (an important project presenting detailed descriptions of archival collections in the former USSR, compiled by Patricia Grimsted and posted by the International Institute of Social History)
Slavic Review Homepage (includes full text of some issues of this important journal)
The Wildman Group for the Study of Workers and Society (scholars interested in Russian and Soviet workers and labor history)
The Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (one of the major centers for Eastern European Jewish studies, includes links to photos and other resources)