Digital Resources

There is a wealth of information on East Europe, Eurasia and Russia on the Internet. Here is a list of some of the best and most useful sites.

Online Books & Journals

  • The Slavic Review. An "American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies."

News Sources

Russian History

  • Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. A multi-media archive of primary materials designed to introduce students and the general public to the richness and contradictions of Soviet history. It provides a cross-section of Soviet life in seventeen different years, which each module covering politics, society, culture and economics, so that users might experience a given time through the words, sounds and sights that a common Soviet citizen would have encountered.
  • Bucknell Russian History Page. This page attempts to capture the flavor of the rich diversity evolving over Russian history and hence depends as much on the endeavors of others as those of the Russian Studies Program. We hope you enjoy your visit and learn more about the origins of the Russians and their neighbors. 
  • Fontes: open-access Ukrainian history sources
    Fontes is a database of online, open-access resources for original research on the history of Ukraine supported by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. The name Fontes refers to the Latin word for "sources," as our project aims to connect students, researchers, and the public with freely available resources for researching Ukraine's past, from the prehistoric era through the twenty-first century. 
  • The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the Former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The former Soviet Union, Cuba and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and got a large amount of artistic attention as well. This is a selection of 145 political posters, famous masterpieces next to equally beautiful, but unknown examples, drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
     

Miscellaneous

  • The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. This site includes characteristic data on population, and native language status, from Abazians to Yukaghirs. The present volume represents the first major attempt to draw public attention to those peoples whose existence is truly marked by the threat of extinction.

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