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These web sites provide information and links relating to all aspects of history.
Empire That Was Russia: The
Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/)
Online presentation of an exhibit at the Library of Congress that presented "photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)[that] offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution."
Meeting of Frontiers (http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html)
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 (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html)
Online presentation of primary source documents describing Soviet rule as presented for an exhibit at the Library of Congress.
Russia: A Country Study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html)
This country study produced by the Library of Congress's Federal Research Division includes a lengthy section on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Other Resources on Russian History
Библиотека электронных ресурсов Исторического факультета МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова
(http://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/index.html)
Historical resources and links to other sites with historical resources. Collated by the History Department at Moscow State University. In Russian and English, but most material is in Russian.
H-Russia (http://www.h-net.org/~russia/)
Listserv devoted to Russian history. "H-RUSSIA encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids."
Historic.Ru (http://historic.ru)
Basic portal on world history with a section pertaining to Russia. Includes news, full-text of books on history, and maps. In Russian.
Memorial (Moscow) (http://www.memo.ru)
Web site of the Moscow branch of Memorial, a group dedicated to documenting the history of political oppression in the Soviet Union. This site is rich in resources on the purges and the Gulag. Includes names and dates of people who were killed, maps, documents related to human rights, etc. Under "contact information" there are links to other branches all over Russia. In both English and Russian.
Memorial (Irkutsk) (http://www.memorial.ru)
Web site of Irkutsk branch of Memorial, a group dedicated to documenting the history of political oppression in the Soviet Union. This web site is rich in resources on the purges and the Gulag. Includes names and dates of people who were killed, maps, documents related to human rights, etc. In Russian.
Правители России и Советского Союза (http://praviteli.narod.ru)
Site devoted to rulers of Russia and the Soviet Union. Provides dates, biographies and bibliographic sources used to compile the information. Also has a collection of links to other Russian history sites. In Russian.
Ресурсы WWW по истории России (http://www.history.ru/hist.htm)
Lists of links provided by a software company. In Russian.
Russian History (The Bucknell Russian Studies Program)
(http://www.bucknell.edu/Russian.xml)
Includes links to resources on Bucknell's web site as well as links to other sites with information about Russian history.
Военная литература (http://militera.lib.ru)
Large digital library of works on military topics. Genres include memoirs, diaries, biographies, poetry, propaganda. In Russian.
World Wide Web Virtual
Library's Russian History Index (http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/Index.html)
Useful collection of links; subjects covered are broader than just history.
Historical Museums
Государственный исторический музей (http://www.shm.ru)
Web site of the State Historical Museum in Moscow. In Russian.
Государственный музей истории Санкт-Петербурга (http://spbmuseum.ru)
Official Web site of the State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg. In Russian.
Московский кремль (http://www.kreml.ru)
Official Web site of the Moscow Kremlin Museum. Features the history, collections, and exhibitions of the various museums in the system. In Russian and English.
Online Encyclopedias
Большой энциклопедический словарь (http://dic.academic.ru/contents.nsf/enc3p/)
Online version of a general Russian encyclopedia. Includes entries for names, places, concepts, etc. In Russian.
Энциклопедия Кругосвет (http://www.krugosvet.ru)
Contemporary Russian online encyclopedia. It has received financial support from the Open Society Institute. In Russian.
Малый энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона (http://slovari.yandex.ru/?ref=universal)
Full-text of the Malyi entsiklopeicheskii slovar' by Brokgauz and Efron, 1899-1902. In Russian.
Русский биографический словарь (http://www.rulex.ru/xPol/index.htm)
Online version of the venerable Russian biographical dictionary that began publication in 1896. In Russian.
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