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Russian & Eastern European History

| General Sites | Cold War |
| Balkan States | Baltic States | Czech Republic | Hungary | Poland | Russia | Slovakia | Ukraine |

General Sites

• Directory of Internet Resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
  Collection of selected resources arranged by region. Maintained by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.
• REESweb: Russian and Eastern European Studies Internet Resources
  Comprehensive listing of Internet sources dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe. Maintained by the University of Pittsburgh.
• Russian and East European Network Information Center
  Collection of links managed by the Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cold War

• Analytic Reports Produced by the Directorate of Intelligence on the Former Soviet Union
  More than 800 declassified CIA reports dating from 1951 to 1991 released for a March 2001 conference at Princeton University.
• The CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers Declassified CIA documents detailing "in-depth research on Soviet and Chinese internal politics and Sino-Soviet relations."
• Cold War International History Project
  Project of the Wilson International Center for Scholars provides PDF formatted primary documents, a bulletin and discussion group.
• Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
  "In response to the progressing declassification of NATO documents and the growing availability of documents from the archives of the former Soviet bloc, the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP) seeks to collect, analyze, and interpret these premier sources for the study of contemporary international history."
• Secret History of the ABM Treaty
  Collection of 42 US documents dealing with the negotiation over the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. Also see: U.S. Planning for War in Europe, 1963-64, Why There Was No Crackdown on the Revolutions of 1989 and Did NATO Win the Cold War? Part of the National Security Archive.

Regional Sites

• Bulgaria - A Country Study
  Library of Congress publication on Bulgaria published in 1992.
• Romania - A Country Study
  Library of Congress publication on Romania published in 1989.
• Macedonia Through the Ages
  Narrative of Macedonian history supplemented by illustrative documents sponsored by the State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia.

Baltic States

• Estonian Historical Archives
  "Estonian Historical Archives preserves records of former central administrative institutions on the Estonian territory, court and police organs, materials of knighthood (Baltic-German nobility), local governments of towns and rural areas." Linked from the site are a number of databases and exhibits.

Czech Republic

• Czechoslovakia - A Country Study
  Library of Congress publication on Czechoslovakia published in 1987.
• Czech Republic
  Official government site of the republic, includes short historical overview and biographies.
• Joseph Sechtl & Jan Vosecek
  Archive of almost 20,000 19th and 20th century photographs of the Czech Republic and other areas.

Hungary

• Digital 1956 Archive
  Interviews, newspaper clippings, reports and more dealing with the 1956 revolution in Hungary. Also see the National Security Archive collection, The 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
• Hungary - A Country Study
  Library of Congress publication on Hungary published in 1989.
• Hungarian History
  Collection of essay dealing with Hungarian history.

Poland

• Poland - A Country Study
  Library of Congress publication on Poland published in 1992.
• Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
  "Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States is a presentation of the first 13 manuscript volumes compiled in Poland in 1926 and delivered to President Calvin Coolidge at the White House."
• Solidarity's Coming Victory: Big or Too Big?
  Collection of 10 US Embassy documents dealing with the Solidarity movemnt in Poland. Part of the National Security Archive.
• The Wolf Lewkowicz Collection
  Collection of letters written between 1922 and 1938 by Wolf Lewkowicz of Poland to his nephew in the United States. The selected letters are English translations of the Yidish originials held by Harvard and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Russia

• Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
  Online version of a travelling exhibit with extensive narrative and images.
• The Empire that was Russia
  Prokudin-Gorskii photographs from the Library of Congress.
• Leon Trotsky Internet Archive
  Extensive collection of Trotsky's writings, includes photographs.
• Medieval and Early Modern Russia and Ukraine
  This site created by UW Professor Waugh provides "links to resources for the teaching and learning of the early history of the areas encompassed primarily by today's Ukraine and the European parts of Russia and some adjoining regions of Eastern Europe." Also see Professor Waugh's Novogorod Resources and Silk Road project.
• Meeting of Frontiers
  Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
• Revelations from the Russian Archives
  Exhibition of documents illustrating the "hitherto highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule" provided by the Library of Congress.
• Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
  New York Public Library exhibition includes a lengthy narrative supplemented with historic images.
• Russian Historical Texts in English
  Site created by John Slatter at the University of Durham providing translations of key historical texts. See also Translations of the Laws of Rus' provided by Daniel Kaiser at Grinnell and Seton Hall University's Documents in Russian History.
• Russian History
  Collection of links maintained by Bucknell University. All see the WWW Virtual Library's Russian History Index and Alexander Palace Russian History Websites.
• Soviet Archives
  A large collection of Soviet documents in Russian maintained at Johns Hopkins.
• William C. Brumfeld Russian Architecture Collection
  Approximately 1200 photographs of historic buildings.
• The Winter War 1939-1940
  Collection of "transcribed telegrams from each day of the Winter War (November 30, 1939 - March 14, 1940) between the Soviet Union and Finland."

Ukraine

• Ukrainian History
  Narrative of Ukrainian history presented by InfoUkes Inc, a Ukrainian site based in Canada.

Photograph: Detail from "View of the monastery from Svetlitsa" by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Courtesy of the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress.