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August 1991 Coup
Moscow Times: Ten Years After The Coup, Russia.Net - History, Yeltsin's Address to the Russian People
Library of Congress Archives
(b) Repression and Terror: Stalin in Control, (c) Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges, (d) Secret Police, (e) The Gulag, (f) Collectivization and Industrialization, (g) Anti-Religious Campaigns, (h) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Early Attacks, (i) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Renewed Attacks, (j) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Censorship, (k) Attacks on Intelligentsia: Suppressing Disside
Personalities
Andropov, Yuri, Brezhnev, Leonid, Bukharin, Nikolai, Chernenko, Konstantin, Gorbachev, Mikhail, Khrushchev, Nikita, Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, Stalin, Josef, Trotsky, Leon, 1923: Revolutionary Silhouettes, Soviet Leaders
Stalin's Purges
1937: Stalin's Year of Terror, Bukharin's Last Plea, Kolyma: The Land of Gold and Death by Stanley J. K, Modern History Sourcebook: Stalin's Purges, 1, References: good articles to read about Stalin and, The Great Terror : A Reassessment, The Kirov Murder
A Soveit Tragedy: A History of Socialism in USSR,
Critical essay examining the course of socialism in the Soviet Union. PDF file.
Black Market Secrets
Author Raelynn Hillhouse shares insider info from her experiences dealing on the black market in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union.
Collect Russia
Items for sale to collectors of military memorobilia from the Revolution through WWII and beyond.
CPSU Plenums, Leadership Struggles, and Soviet Col
Information from the transcripts of plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev era.
Declassified Materials from CPSU Central Committee
Describes the significance of a Khrushchev-era Soviet archive at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Early Soviet History Internet Archive
Information on the developmental period of the USSR.
History & Culture of Russia / The Path to Revo
Article on the Soviet era.
How Lenin Led To Stalin
An essay from Workers Solidarity Movement.
Kiselev's memorandum
Details the starvation induced by the forced collectivization of the peasentry under Stalin.
Lectures for the History of Stalin's Russia
Presentations by Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College.
Liquidation of Kulaks as a Class
Essay by Ludwik Kowalski on the Stalinist policy.
Meinhard Stark's scientific project about wom
Reports on project, background of researcher, personal links in English and German language
Nuclear Weapons after Stalin's Death: Moscow
Report, with notes, by Yuri Smirnov and Vladislav Zubok.
Reagan and the Soviets
Examines the final years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on Ronald Reagan's policy towards the Soviet Union.
Red Comrades Documentation Project
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 Archive Project
Since 1991, the non-profit, collaborative scholarly Russian Archive Project has produced eleven volumes of guides to formerly classified collections in the Soviet Union.
Soviet Democide
An overview of political mass murder in the Soviet Union, and a set of mortality figures (unattributed). By R. J. Rummel.
Soviet Militaria
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-Empire.com
Information about and ephemera from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also a virtual "recreation" of the Soviet Union.
Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project
A collaborative, multidisciplinary undertaking based at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto
Sword of the Motherland
Devoted to the study of the Russian officer, soldier, and sailor and weaponry throughout various periods of history. Analyzes events in the context of the times that they occurred, from the position of those who were there. Examines periods from the 1890s to the present but focusses heavily on the Soviet era.
The Commissar Vanishes
Chapter One of the book by David King which examines the politically motivated falsification of photographs, documents and art in Stalinist Russia.
The New Economic Policy
Lecture on the NEP, an experiment with market economics which was introduced by the Bolsheviks following the Civil War.
The Soviet Army
Detailed information on the Soviet Army - weapons, equipment, uniforms, capabilities and analysis.
The Yeltsin Dossier: Soviet Documents on Hungary 1
Description of Soviet documents concerning the 1956 crisis in Hungary.
Yale Russian Archive Project
Clearinghouse for information in order to facilitate access to the newly available documents in the archives of the former Soviet Union.