Russian History: Websites

A tutorial from the University of California Berkeley Libraries on how to evaluate web pages. Includes a Web Page Evaluation Checklist.

A brief guide developed by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association designed to provide students, teachers and researchers with information to help them use and evaluate the quality of primary source materials that can be found on the web.

Educational and online books site on Romanov Russia. Includes photographs, books, letters, memoirs, secondary sources, etc.

Provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The 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.

Provides a collection of links to Russian primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

This interactive timeline, a companion to the PBS series The Face of Russia, traces the general chronology of Russian culture. Through ten centuries of art, architecture, music, dance and cinema, it reveals the major events that shaped Russian culture.

A selection of Russian and Soviet history resource sites available on line.

Features Russian archival collections of photographs and films, audio clips and transcripts from the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union.

Stalinka, a collection of visual materials and artifacts, is intended as an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism.

An index to resources relating to Russian history.