See also:

• Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Cold War  (146)
• Society: Politics: Socialism: Marxism: Communism  (101)

Black Market Secrets - - Author Raelynn Hillhouse shares insider info from her experiences dealing on the black market in Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union.

Collect Russia - - Items for sale to collectors of military memorobilia from the Revolution through WWII and beyond.

The Commissar Vanishes - - Chapter One of the book by David King which examines the politically motivated falsification of photographs, documents and art in Stalinist Russia.

CPSU Plenums, Leadership Struggles, and Soviet Cold War Politics, by Vladislav M. Zubok - - Information from the transcripts of plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev era.

Declassified Materials from CPSU Central Committee Plenums: Sources, Context, Highlights, by Mark Kramer - - Describes the significance of a Khrushchev-era Soviet archive at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Early Soviet History Internet Archive - - Information on the developmental period of the USSR.

History & Culture of Russia / The Path to Revolution - - Article on the Soviet era.

How Lenin Led To Stalin - - An essay from Workers Solidarity Movement.

Kiselev's memorandum - - Details the starvation induced by the forced collectivization of the peasentry under Stalin.

Lectures for the History of Stalin's Russia - - Presentations by Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College.

Liquidation of Kulaks as a Class - - Essay by Ludwik Kowalski on the Stalinist policy.

Meinhard Stark's scientific project about women in GULAG - - Reports on project, background of researcher, personal links in English and German languag.

The New Economic Policy - - Lecture on the NEP, an experiment with market economics which was introduced by the Bolsheviks following the Civil War.

Red Comrades Documentation Project - - Website contains material that re-analyzes the Bolsheviks of the Stalin Era in the USSR from a pro-Stalinist viewpoint. Pictures and articles focusing on the Stalinists, and in particular on the NKVD, the purges, Yezhov, and Lysenkoism.

A Soveit Tragedy: A History of Socialism in USSR, 1917 - 1991 - - Critical essay examining the course of socialism in the Soviet Union. PDF file.

Soviet Archive Project - - Since 1991, the non-profit, collaborative scholarly Russian Archive Project has produced eleven volumes of guides to formerly classified collections in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Army - - Detailed information on the Soviet Army - weapons, equipment, uniforms, capabilities and analysis.

Soviet Democide - - An overview of political mass murder in the Soviet Union, and a set of mortality figures (unattributed). By R. J. Rummel.

Soviet Militaria - - Includes information on Red Army uniforms from the 1930s to the 1960s, miliatria for sale to collectors, uniforms worn during the 1945 Victory Parade of the generals and information on the NKVD and KGB.

Soviet-Empire.com - - Information about and ephemera from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also a virtual "recreation" of the Soviet Union.

Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project - - A collaborative, multidisciplinary undertaking based at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toront.

Sword of the Motherland - - Devoted to the study of the Russian officer, soldier, and sailor and weaponry throughout various periods of history. Analyzes events in the context of the times that they occurred, from the position of those who were there. Examines periods from the 1890s to the present but focusses heavily on the Soviet era.

Yale Russian Archive Project - - Clearinghouse for information in order to facilitate access to the newly available documents in the archives of the former Soviet Union.