[Soviet Information Bureau photograph collection] HOLLIS # 990088625770203941 The Davis Center Collection at Fung Library has digitized its Soviet Information Bureau Photograph Collection. Commissioned by the propaganda arm of the Soviet state to document the country’s reconstruction following World War II, these nearly 5,800 black-and-white photographs provide an extensive visual record of daily life, culture, […]
The new Harvard Library online LibGuide Soviet history: archival resources at Harvard university library and archives is now published. This guide contains a list of Harvard-owned archival materials documenting the history of the Soviet Union. It is arranged chronologically and by topic/provenance. The guide brings together primary sources that vary in scope and format. Many materials […]
Ogonek digital archive (DA-OGN) Minneapolis, MN : East View Information Services Harvard Library users now have access to the digital archive of Ogonek, a long-running illustrated weekly from Russia. Ogonek has been published continuously since 1923, in the tradition of the eponymous pre-revolutionary magazine published in 1899-1918. In the Soviet years its run reached millions of […]
September 6 – December 21, Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library To mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution, Houghton Library in collaboration with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Slavic Division at Widener Library presents an exhibition showcasing original documents from the period, assembled from its own holdings as […]
Krasnyi Arkhiv digital archive Minneapolis, MN : East View Information Services HOLLIS # 6918745 Harvard ID-holders now have access to another online primary source archive: Krasnyi arkhiv digital archive. Krasnyi arkhiv was a scholarly historical journal published in Moscow in 1922-1941 by the Central Archive and later by the Central Archival Administration of […]
Zavod “Diafoto“ : Reki i ozera SSSR : seriia 585, Sel’skoe khoziaistvo SSSR : seriia 98 The Davis Center Collection at Fung Library is pleased to announce the digitization of two rare glass slide collections dating from the Stalin era. Series 98. Agriculture of the U.S.S.R. (1940) consists of 43 sequentially numbered images […]
The Widener library has a unique collection of over 1500 posters from different Slavic countries (specifically Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Soviet Union and Ukraine). The collection dates from the beginning of the last quarter of the 20th century until the present. Despite the regional, cultural and stylistic differences, there is […]
Padomju Latvijas 25. Gadadienai / 25 Years of Soviet Latvia HOLLIS # 010022937 In 1965 the USSR celebrated the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Soviet power in Latvia. The date was marked by festivals, a commemorative stamp, a special meeting of the Latvian Communist Party’s central committee, the opening of the now-famous restaurant […]
Stalin Digital Archive [New Haven] Yale University Press, 2011- HOLLIS # 13752638 Harvard ID-holders now have access to Stalin Digital Archive, a web-based archive of primary and secondary research documents that have previously only been available at the RGASPI archive in Russia. Specifically, The Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents from Fond […]
Soviet ephemera, 1976-1978. HOLLIS # 014148652 Introducing another ephemera collection that has been made available recently in both physical and digitized form. This small collection contains 3 groups of documents: materials produced in connection with the 89th anniversary of a 1887 students’ political meeting (“Leninskai͡a skhodka”) at the Kazan university (1976), a book censor’s […]