Directory of Soviet Union Resources

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Sites devoted to the history of Russia in 1917-1991.

Subcategories

• 1917 Russian Revolution
• August 1991 Coup
• Cold War
• Great Patriotic War - World War II
• Library of Congress Archives
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
• Personalities
• Soviet-Afghan War
• Stalin's Purges

Resources in This Category

• Collect Russia

  http://collectrussia.com/
  Items for sale to collectors of military memorabilia from the Revolution through WWII and beyond.

• Early Soviet History Internet Archive

  http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/
  Information on the developmental period of the USSR.

• History & Culture of Russia / The Path to Revolution

  http://www.geographia.com/russia/rushis07.htm
  Article on the Soviet era.

• Kiselev's memorandum

  http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/aa2feig2.html
  Details the starvation induced by the forced collectivization of the peasentry under Stalin.

• Red Comrades Documentation Project

  http://redcomrades.byethost5.com/redcomrades/
  Website contains material that re-analyzes the Bolsheviks of the Stalin Era in the USSR from a pro-Stalinist viewpoint. Pictures and articles focusing on the Stalinists, and in particular on the NKVD, the purges, Yezhov, and Lysenkoism.

• Soviet Militaria

  http://members.tripod.com/~otlichnik/index.html
  Includes information on Red Army uniforms from the 1930s to the 1960s, miliatria for sale to collectors, uniforms worn during the 1945 Victory Parade of the generals and information on the NKVD and KGB.

• Soviet Story, The

  http://www.sovietstory.com/
  Official site of the documentary film which tells the story of Europe’s most murderous regime.

• Soviet-Empire.com

  http://www.soviet-empire.com/
  Information about and ephemera from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also a virtual "recreation" of the Soviet Union.

• The Commissar Vanishes

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/king-commissar.html
  Chapter One of the book by David King which examines the politically motivated falsification of photographs, documents and art in Stalinist Russia.

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