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Site devoted to the history of the Soviet Union through an innovative use of texts, music, documents, and video

Site devoted to apartment living in the late Soviet period

Collection of documents and photographs from the archives of the Soviet Union from an exhibit at the Library of Congress

Documents relating to the Romanov family, including diaries, letters, reports, memos

Based on letters, diaries, memoirs, and photographs collected by the historian Orlando Figes, this site explores private life in the Stalin period.

A digital library of texts and images about the Stalin phenomenon

Site devoted to the history of the gulag

Posters from the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the People’s Republic of China from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam

Posters devoted to maternity care, industrialization, collectivization, and antireligious campaigns from the 1920s and early 1930s.

A website devoted to music written under communism. It is a collection of songs about war, the military, patriotism, and leaders and also contains speeches and posters.

On-line audio archive of speeches and voices of key political figures from the Soviet Union such as Lenin and Stalin.