History of Russia: Primary Documents
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- Provided by the Latvian National Library
- (16th to 18th centuries; map facsimiles and descriptions)
- Sources collected by the Russian and East European Studies Program at Seton Hall University.
- (17th-20th centuries; English transcriptions and translations)
- Letters, law proposals and decrees of the Empress who expanded Russian power in the 18th century.
- (1762-1796; English translations)
- Chronological commentary with links to primary documents from the Belorus past.
- Includes relations and wars with France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
- (13th century to present; Belarus transcriptions, English translations, images, maps and commentary).
- Prokudin-Gorskii Collection - Color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire.
- Digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress
- "Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities."
- (1905-1915; searchable database of facsimiles)
- (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
- Major Resource
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1914-1919; translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1918-1941; translations)
- The power manifesto of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, removing "local" legislation from the Grand Duchy of Finland.
- (15 February 1899; English translation)
- Consolidating Russian control.
- Also available in French.
- (30 June 1910; English translation)
- Signed by Russian officials following the abdication of Nicholas II.
- Also available in Russian.
- (20 March 1917; English translation)
- (18 December 1917; English translation)
- Also available in Russian.
- (18 - 23 December 1917; English translations)
- Telegrams in English translation from each day of the Russo-Finnish War.
- Available also in the original Finnish and in Swedish translation.
- (30 November 1939-14 March 1940)
- (30 November 1939-14 March 1940; maps, transcribed documents, commentary, bibliography)
- Nazi-Soviet Relations (Department of State Publication)
- Documents from the archives of the German Foreign Office.
- (1939-1941; English translations)
- A collection of documents and agreements from the Avalon Project.
- (1939-1941; English translations).
- (22 June 1941; English translation).
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
- An archive of images and documents from the French perspective of World War II.
- Requires video software for the clips.
- (1940-1944; videos, photo images and transcriptions)
- A collection of documents related to WWII.
- From the Avalon Project.
- Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
- (1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1938-1945; translations)
- Including treaties affecting the Hungarian border from the Treaty of Trianon to the Moscow Agreement.
- Published by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State
- (1920-1945; facsimiles)
- Declassified CIA documents analyzing Soviet (and Chinese) internal politics.
- (1953-1973; PDF facsimiles)
- E-mail accounts of unsuccessful Soviet coup
- (August 1991; transcriptions)
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- (Facsimiles).
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