WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Russia

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REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Revelations from the Russian Archives Site accompanying an exhibition organized by the US Library of Congress in the 1990s. It was the first public display of the highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule.
Slavic, East European, and former USSR resources Links to Internet resources, from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web Japanese site with links to Internet resources for Russian, Post-Soviet, and East European Studies.
Soviet Archives Exhibit organized by the Library of Congress and Rosarkhiv.

Archives and Libraries

Alexander Baykov Library The Baykov Library is part of the European Resource Centre, at the University of Birmingham. It was originally established in 1963 as part of the newly created Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Holdings total aprox. 90,000 volumes and 500 Soviet Era Posters
ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia An overview of archives in Moscow and St Petersburg; maintained by the International Institute of Social History.
Arkhivy Rossii Website of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv)
Friends of the Victor Serge Library website General information.
Gosudarstvennaia Istoricheskaia Publichnaia Biblioteka (Moscow). Collections information of the Public Historical State Library, one of the major resources in Russian and Soviet history. Cyrillic font.
Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (Moscow). General information on the Socio-Political State Library, formerly part of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and one of the finest libraries in labour history anywhere.
Guides to Russian Archives M.J. Berry and M.J. Ilic, Using the Russian Archives: an Informal Practical guide for Beginners Based on Users' Experience. British Academic Committee for Collaboration With Russian Archives, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Part 1. Moscow Archives (PDF).
Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
Moskovskaia Nezavisimaia Obshchestvennaia Biblioteka MNOB Overview of its collections, particularly rich in current serials.
Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka (St Petersburg). The Russian National Library, formerly named after Saltykov-Shchedrin. Cyrillic font.
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii (RGASPI) The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History is the main depository for documentation relating to the history of socialism, the records of the CPSU and its predecessors, mainly before 1953, as well as the records of the Komsomol. RTsKhIDNI was established in October 1991 on the basis of the former the Central Party Archive—TsPA IML, under the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.
Victor Serge Library Moscow's library of alternative socialist and radical thought.

Data Archives

Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
Soviet and Russian Economic Statistical Series at Hokkaido University. Different indexes, some of them going back to 1940.

Research Institutions

GESIS Servicestelle Osteuropa GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe: an organization for the transfer of social science information and data between Eastern and Western Europe.
INION (Moscow). The Institute for Information on the Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. General information. Its current bibliography on the social sciences is available as an RLG CitaDel file.
Laboratoriia Istoricheskoi Informatiki at Moscow State University. Information in Russian.
Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
Praxis Research and Educational Center An independent, voluntary collective, founded in 1998 by scholars and social movements activists grouped around the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow. Its aims are a.o. to study left (anti-totalitarian) social and political thought as well as the historical experience of workers’ and other liberation movements.
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
Russian Independent Institute of Social and Nationalities Problems Information in Russian and English.
Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at the University of Toronto. Bulletin, working papers, bibliography.
Tsentr Ekonomicheskoi Istorii at Moscow State University. Information in Russian and English on the Center, its activities, collections, and publications.

Museums

Central Museum of the Revolution (Moscow). General information from the Moscow Times.
Lenin Museum (St Petersburg). General information.
Lenin Museum (Moscow) Biographical texts and digitized photo's; some information about the Museum, but not on opening hours.

Associations and Societies

BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution This study group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies aims to help promote new approaches to the study of the Russian revolution between the 1880s and 1932. It has an annual international conference and a journal, Revolutionary Russia
Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
Memorial Italia L'associazione Memorial Italia is a society for studying the history of 20th century Russian History focusing on human rights then and now.

Special Topics

Commissar - The Commissar Vanishes The falsification of photographs in Stalinist Russia.
Evolution of Labour Relations in Russian Industry (1880s-1920s) Documents, maps, photographs, statistics, articles, bibliography ands other online resources from the Center for Economic History of Moscow Lomonosov State University; Russian text.
Gulag Italia Italians in the Gulag. Website maintained by the Fondazione Feltrinelli (Milan) and the Memorial association (Moscow) on the Italian victims of the Soviet camp system. It contains information (maps, chronology, history) on the Gulag in general; a database containing 1026 biographical notes on the Italian victims, and a full bibliography compiled by Hélène Kaplan
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online Digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS) consisting chiefly of summary transcripts in English of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
Lenin - Vladimir Ilich Lenin Home Page List of lists maintained in Lithuania.
Lenin Museum (St Petersburg). General information.
Lenin Museum (Moscow) Biographical texts and digitized photo's; some information about the Museum, but not on opening hours.
Makhno The Nestor Makhno Archive. Pages dedicated to the Ukrainian anarchist, Nestor Ivanovich Makhno who was active in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. Maintained by Nestor McNab.
NEP at Duke University Libraries. A bibliography of Soviet and Western literature (1965-1995) on the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia, by Peter Frykholm.
Russian Revolution maintained by David Barnsdale in London. Links to sites on the topic.
Russian Socialists and Anarchists after October 1917 Documentation on Russian socialist and anarchist movements opposing the Bolshevik Party after (but also partly before) the October Revolution of 1917. Includes documents, memoirs, scholarly articles, biographical notes etc. (Russian text.)
Russische und Sowjetische Plakatkunst At RussianPoster.Ru.
Sibir' Sovetskaia at Sibirskaja Zaimka. Articles by various authors on Siberia in Soviet times. Cyrillic characters.
Soviet Defence Industry: The Numbered Factories and Other Establishments of the Soviet Defence Industry, 1928 to 1967 at the University of Warwick. A guide by Mark Harrison (2004). Downloadable files.
Soviet Nationalities Data at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Data from the censuses of 1926 and 1959, compiled by Brian Silver. PDF and downloadable file.
Sowjetunion 1917-1953 at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. A publication of official documents prepared by Helmut Altrichter.
Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana Visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc.; at the University of Pittsburgh.
SULAIR: Russian Reference Works at Stanford University Libraries. Special sections on the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences.
Tattood Stalin An exhibition of photographs of Soviet prisoners' tattoos. Information about the exhibition, a few photographs and symbols; at the Hungarian Statuepark website, www.szoborpark.hu
Ukrainian Soviet Posters at Brama's Ukrainian Gateway: 12 posters, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s.
Université et Révolution at the University of Geneva. A study of East-European students in Geneva in the times of Plekhanov and Lenin, by Ladislas Mysyrowicz.
Vlast' i Narod A study by G.L. Olekh on the Russian Communist Party and its political police in the early 1920s. Cyrillic characters.
Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia A selection of digitized family archives that had been concealed by the survivors of the Stalin Terror. A project of Memorial Society and Orlando Figes.
WWW Virtual Guide to the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meta-index. Includes a bibliography.

Discussion Lists

H-Russia This list is a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. It encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.
List@ceh.org.ru This moderated list, maintained at the Center for Economic History of the Faculty of History at the Moscow Lomonosov State University, aims to "organize the discussion of actual problems of socio-economic history of Russia and the world"; Russian text only.

Reference

REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library at the University of Pittsburgh.
Russia on the Net A directory of Internet resources, among them Russian universities and research institutions.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Russian History Index at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

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Last updated 28 January 2014