Russia & Eastern Europe - Primary Sources - History

Primary Sources - Russia & Eastern Europe

The New York Public Library's NYPL Gallery includes thousands of images from prints, books, and historical maps published in Russia and its environs between 1730 and 1935. Among the notable items are the several series issued by 19th-century collector and scholar, Dimitrii Aleksandrovich Rovinskii. Special collections include:

Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
104 Russian and Ukrainian posters dating from 1917-1921, donated to the Slavic and Baltic Division, effectively doubling the Library's holding of early Soviet posters.
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860-1945
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities.
Documents in Russian History
an on-line repository of primary documents intended mainly for use in teaching. All of the documents are either original translations or are, as far as we can determine, in the public domain. Permission is granted to use the documents for non-commercial purpose under a Creative Commons license.
Georgetown's Russian and Eastern European Digital Collections

Chernobyl

Primary documents on the Chernobyl nuclear accident

Wilson Center Digital Archive - The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project and the Cold War International History Project, both part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program, have published new translations of 28 documents about the Chernobyl nuclear accident from the archives of the Ukrainian Security Service, or the Ukrainian KGB. Documents from 1973-1991

George Washington University National Security Archives - Declassified documents