The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first maps that used the name "Ukraine" for the area (in 1648), to the poetry ...

Search for more books with primary sources on Russia or primary sources on the Soviet Union. Revolutionary Russia: A History in Documents. Call Number: DK266 .A3 W45 2011 - 4th floor. Collection of far-flung documents, photographs, posters, and objects. Topics include the prelude to revolution, the Bolshevik rise to power, the …

Soviet Union & The Russian Federation ; Primary Sources by Type. News sources ; Video & Audio ; Images & Maps ; Journals & Magazines ; Diplomatic …

This detailed two-volume set tells the story of the Cold War, the dominant international event of the second half of the 20th century, through a diverse selection of primary source documents. Cold War: Primary Sources by …

History of the Soviet Union (University of East Anglia) Primary sources translated to English. See esp. "Documents" and "Links" Stalin and the rise of Soviet …

The making of a first-hand account of the Russian Revolution is found in the John Reed papers, 1910-1920.Reed, a Harvard graduate, was an American Socialist who traveled to Russia just before the October Revolution and famously described the events in his book, Ten Days that Shook the World.The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, …

The Russian State Military Archive in Moscow is the primary repository for Soviet-era military documents, including those form the VChK-OGPU-NKVD-Ministry of the Interior. Archives of the Russian Federation's Defense Ministry, containing archival fonds for most of the legacy military and defense agencies of the USSR.

Britain and Russia in the Age of Peter the Great: Historical Documents. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1998. Call Number: 327.41047 B86211 (Level 2) Dmytryshyn, Basil. Imperial Russia; A Source Book, 1700-1917. Hinsdale, Ill: Dryden Press, 1974. Call Number: 947 D629i 1974 (Level 2)

A rich collection of primary sources on Russian history of 18th and 19th century, it contains a lot of materials on key political and cultural personalities: memoirs, diaries, correspondence and official documents of members of the royal family, government officials, and members of aristocratic and ruling classes; materials related to social ...

The history of Russia has always been a relatively sad and tumultuous one wrought with wars, power struggles, and abrupt changes. ... Existing sources and research indicates that the ... the census served as the primary purpose for conscription as well as for taxation. This practice was carried on by Moscow after it stopped acknowledging the ...

She began building the "Russia's War on Ukraine" digital archive, capturing news stories, videos, data trackers, and social media posts from organizations and media outlets on the ground. ... Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Services, said this sort of archive, with "in-the-moment primary sources and firsthand ...

Manifesto of Katherine the Great about joining Grand Duchy of Lithuania to Russia. (19 December 1795; Russian transcription) EuroDocs > History of Russia: Primary Documents > 1696-1796. …

Call Number: DC241.5 .B288 2015. ISBN: 1472805895. "This book a facsimile reproduction of a contemporary account of the battle of Waterloo, packed with first-hand accounts and official reports." British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1806 by Martin Mace et al. Call Number: Online - Ebook Central.

The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese:, romanized : Nichiro sensō, lit. 'Japanese-Russian War'; Russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, romanized: Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

Explore primary sources arranged by event and location. Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online. This digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s.

Primary Sources in Russian and Eastern European History These catalogs and databases will help you to find primary sources for the study of Russia and Eastern Europe. ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window. Database of archival collection descriptions, including historical documents, personal papers, and family histories …

Presents a rich collection of primary sources translated into English from Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Franco-Italian, Italian, Korean, Latin, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Tibetan that will give students a clear sense of the extraordinary geographic and linguistic range of the Mongol Empire as well as insight into the empire's rise, how it …

The Bolsheviks, Russian SDP Program, 1 Aug 1903 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive] The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government, April 1905 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive] 1917. WEB The October Revolution [At Marxists] Timeline and many primary source documents.

Main Article Primary Sources (1) Stephen Graham, Russia and the World (1915) I was staying in an Altai Cossack village on the frontier of Mongolia when the war broke out, a most verdant resting-place with a majestic fir forests, snow-crowned mountains range behind range, green and purple valleys deep in larkspur and monkshood.

Primary source documents are marked with an asterisk (*) in the table of contents. Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 2 The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929 by Richard Gregor (Editor)

Library of Congress's European Division. The European Division Reading Room (LJ-250) is the primary gateway relating to European countries, from Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe, and from the Baltics to the Balkans. It also includes the Russian-speaking areas of Asia, but not Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

This is a collection of primary source documents dating from 1979 to 1983 – during a period of confrontation and building tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. The documents in the collection come from Dutch, German, and Italian archives. From the Wilson Center Digital Archive (1979-1983; English interface)

Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It …

Russia - Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture: The Russian republic, by virtue of its great size and abundant natural resources, played a leading role in the economy of the Soviet Union. In the first decades of the Soviet regime, these resources made possible great economic advances, including the rapid development of mining, metallurgy, and heavy …

Russian Sources by Topic. Russian Legal and Governmental Documents. Russian Regional, Local and Family History Sources. Other Collections Relevant to Russian History. EuroDocs > History of Russia: Primary Documents. EuroDocs …

To find more, try searching the catalogue including the keyword "sources", for example: Soviet Union History Sources. Using the filters on the lefthand side, you can limit your results to English only, eBooks/physical books, etc. A Documentary History of Communism in Russia by Robert V. Daniels. Call Number: HX313 .D644 1993.

History: Primary Sources: Russia and the Soviet Union. American History. Evaluate Sources. Cite Sources. Primary Sources: A definition. Written primary …

The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in 1917. This first revolt focused in and around the then-capital Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). After major military losses during the war, the Russian Army had begun to mutiny. Army leaders and high-ranking officials were convinced that if Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, the ...

Research Guides. History of Russia. Primary Sources. History of Russia. Resources for researching the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. Digital Collections …

Broaden your research with images and primary sources Broaden your research with images and primary sources. Harness the power of visual materials—explore more than 3 million images now on JSTOR. Search …