Revolution and Ukraine within USSR 1917-1991

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Video contains photos of the battles and troops of the Russian Army.
(1914-1916; Russian facsimiles)
Treaties, orders, and other documents related to World War I.
(1914-1918; Russian images, commentaries, and transcription)
National anthem of Ukraine. Adopted in 1920 and again in 1992.
(Ukrainian with English translation; 1862)
Images of one of the first regular Ukrainian military groups, the Sich Riflemen.
(1914 - 1923; Ukrainian facsimiles)
Includes telegrams, top secret reports, and letters.
(1917 - 12 January 1985; Ukrainian transcriptions and translations)
Documents of General Karnilov and Denikin in the southern Russian Empire.
(1917-1919; Russian transcription)
Government policy for obtaining grain from peasants.
(1917-1939; images, Russian commentaries and transcription)
Letters, memorandums, speeches, and other documents about Soviet programs (ranging from the Secret Police to Perestroika).
Includes documents from Chernobyl and the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.
Compiled by the Library of Congress.
(1917-1990; Russian facsimiles with English commentary)
(March 1917-1919; Ukrainian transcriptions and facsimiles)
Proclaims the independence of Ukraine and creates a parliament and makes declarations about the lands.
(June 10, 1917; Ukrainian transcription)
Decision that supports Russian revolution movement by organizing Ukrainian Army while also establishing the organization of Ukrainian leadership.
(July 3, 1917; Ukrainian transcription)
Includes resolutions, data, and decrees.
(1 December 1917 - 19 August 1991; Russian facsimiles, English translations, Ukrainian interface)
Proclamation creating Ukrainian National Republic. Establishes national, political, and economic right of the people as well as the administrative organization of Ukraine.
Includes support for creating a free Russia.
(December 27, 1917; Ukrainian transcription)
(1918-1919; Ukrainian transcriptions)
VA Obolensky's of Crimea under Denikin's (and Bolshevik) rule.
(1918-1924; Russian transcription)
Proclaims independence of Ukrainian National Republic from all other countries.
Includes political and economic position of Ukrainian government.
Calls for Ukrainians to unite against old regime and Bolsheviks.
(January 9, 1918; Ukrainian transcription)
Articles of Ukrainian 1918 constitution.
(April 29, 1918; Ukrainian transcription)
(8 November 1918; Polish images and facsimiles)
Telegrams, orders, conference documents, laws, and newspaper facsimiles.
(13 October 1918 - 30 April 1921; Ukrainian facsimiles)
Includes orders and committee statements.
(November 1918-21 August 1923; Ukrainian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Documents which proclaim independence of Ukraine by Ukrainian National Rada, union of Ukraine and Russia by Pavlo Skoropadskyi, and renunciation of authority by Skarapatskyi .
(1918; Ukrainian transcription, Russian transcription)
Documents of General Karnilov in southern Russian Empire
(1918-1919; Russian transcription)
(images)
Documents from history of Directory.
(1918-1919; Ukrainian transcription)
Documents and discussion about military communism.
(1918-1921; images and Russian commentaries)
Includes quotes from documents and national policies of RCP (b).
Attempts of Bolsheviks to establish power in Ukraine.
Also contains arguments for creating USSR.
(1918-1922; Russian commentaries and transcription)
Situation of factory workers during New Economic Policy (NEP) Period: salaries, equipment, education, and health.
(1918-1932; Russian commentaries and transcription)
Official announcement unifying all Ukrainian lands, including those under control of other countries.
(January 3, 1919; Ukrainian transcription)
V. I. Lenin - Draft Resolution Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
(1919; English)
History of Ukrainian Directory.
(Ukrainian facsimiles and articles)
Declarations to workers and peasants of Ukraine.
(7 January 1920 - June 1920; English translations)
Proposals of Trotsky to RCP (b) for land and food policy during military communism.
(February 1920; Russian transcription)
Images, information with quotes from documents regarding the establishment of communism in Donbass.
(1920; Russian images, commentaries, and transcription)
RKP (b) order replacing surplus grain tax.
Marks beginning of New Economic Policy (NEP).
(March 21, 1921; Russian commentaries, image, and transcription)
(1922; Ukrainian image and facsimile)
Includes official statements, reports (including a report of an arson in Lviv airport hangar), and letters.
(10 July 1923 - 21 November 1939; Photos, Ukrainian facsimiles, Polish facsimiles with Ukrainian translations)
Collectivization of peasant farms and crops given in percentages.
(1927-1933; Russian facsimile)
Addresses, plans, reports.
(1927- 6 May 1960; Ukrainian transcriptions, Russian translations)
From Nestor Makhno, The struggle against the state and other essays
From Marxists Internet Archive
(English translation; 1927)
(January 5, 1930; Russian transcription)
Includes exposure of Holodomor famine.
Gareth Jones was a Financial Times journalist.
(3 October 1930 - January 1935; English transcriptions)
Soviet posters promoting the First Five Year Plan.
From Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library.
(1930-1932; English commentary and Russian facsimiles)
Includes quotes from witnesses of dispossession.
(1930; transcription in Russian)
Conditions leading to famine in Ukraine: witnesses, pictures, and commentary.
(1932-1933; English facsimiles, images)
The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization.
More info HERE
(1932; facsimile)
Links to speeches and photographs.
Also includes a register of Holodomor famine governmental documents.
Register is searchable, ability to browse by month in addition to year.
1929 1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934-1965
(1932-1933; Ukrainian transcriptions and interface)
Accounts from the Stalin-induced famine in Karkhiv Oblast, also transliterated as "Holodomor."
Documents: search, browse, click on the links to view document facsimiles. English interace, Ukrainian facsimiles.
Photos, English interface.
Eyewitness accounts, Ukrainian interface and accounts.
Diary browse pages of the Ukrainian diary, also Ukrainian interface.
(1932-1933; English and Ukrainian interface, Ukrainian facsimiles and accounts]
Transcription from documentary about Holodomor, includes first-hand accounts.
(1932-1933; English transcription)
Documents about famine and cannibalism in Russia and Ukraine.
(1932-1933; facsimiles in Russian)
Commentaries include quotes from documents about USSR famine.
(1932-1933; Russian commentaries)
Video interviews with Holodomor survivors.
(1932-1933; English interface, videos)
Transcriptions from interviews with survivors.
(1932-1933; English transcriptions)
Related story: A Crime of Unimaginable Horror
Three survivors' stories: Viktor Tracz, Bozenna Kovalenko, and Tanya Wolynec.
(1932-1933; English transcriptions)
Stories given in Ukrainian, with transcriptions and English translations available.
(1932-1933; Ukrainian videos and transcription, English translations)
Maps and photos from Holomodor, a Stalin-induced "extermination by hunger" and intentional genocide of Ukrainians.
Map gallery
Sort maps chronologically.
Holodomor photos
(1932-1933; maps, photos, English interface)
English translation
From minutes of Politburo meeting no. 93.
(6 December 1932; Ukrainian facsimile, English translation)
Includes:
Eyewitness accounts. Includes accounts from media reports and testimonies given at US commission on the famine in 1987.
Media reports, transcriptions from various media outlets.
(1932-1933; English transcriptions and translations)
Findings of U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Report to Congress. Adopted by the Commission, 19 April 1988.
(19 April 1988, about 1932-1933 events; English transcription)
Testimonies from Belorussian prisoners about life in concentration camp among Ukrainians, Poles, and other Belorussians.
(1934-1939; Russian commentaries and transcription)
Includes letters and manifestos.
(17 March 1934 - 4 November 1965; Ukrainian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Reports, top secret conversations, and orders.
(December 1938 - 6 May 1960; Ukrainian facsimiles and transcriptions)
Declassified documents about activities of Ukrainian nationalist organizations in WWII "from federal and departmental archives of the Russian Federation" and "from the archives of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany."
Full reference: "Ukrainian nationalist organizations in the Second World War. Documents: in 2 v. T. 1: 1939-1943 / ed. AN Artizova. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN), 2012."
From Russian Archives Portal Electronic Library.
Also see Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations in WWII: 1944-1945.
(1939-1943; Russian transcriptions)
This collection from the Wilson Center Digital Archive covers Ukraine's nuclear history, from Ukrainian physicists' early involvement in the Soviet nuclear program to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster to the 1994 decision for Ukraine to give up its massive Soviet-era nuclear arsenal.
(1939-1994; English)
Treaty about German and Soviet territorial interests in Poland, Baltic countries, Western Belarus, and Ukraine. Transcription of document.
(August 23, 1939; German transcription and facsimile)
Includes documents, such as telegrams, that were kept secret at the time of the pact here and facsimiles of documents here.
(20 August 1939 - 10 January 1941; Ukrainian interface, Russian transcriptions, facsimiles)
Statistics from repression.
(September 1939 – May 1941; Russian commentaries and transcription)
Agreements and pacts.
(1939-1940; English translation)
Documents about lives of Jews in Kalinovka over various time periods.
Includes immigration lists and cemetery records.
(Russian facsimiles, English commentaries)
Database of interviews with Jewish people from Ukraine.
Includes facsimiles of official documents.
Explore the database by family name, city.
Advanced search here.
(photos, English transcriptions, Ukrainian and Yiddish facsimiles)
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)
More documents found here.
(1920-1950; Polish, Ukrainian facsimiles)
(21 February 1943 - March 3 1945; German, Polish, and Ukrainian facsimiles)
Facsimiles of official documents related to the Chernobyl plant.
From the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Includes memoranda, informational messages, and reports.
Documents discuss low-quality construction and assembly work, violations of technological discipline and safety rules (read more about the documents here).
(1940 - 28 April 2011; Russian facsimles, Ukrainian interface)
Documents outlining military plans in case of German invasion.
(1941; Ukrainian transcription)
Plan of occupation of USSR, created and signed by Hitler.
(March 13, 1941; Russian translation)
Announces of beginning of war between Germany and USSR. Molotov urges people to unite to win in the war.
(June 22, 1941; Russian transcription)
Images of World War II period in Ukraine.
(1941; facsimile, English language)
Includes quotes from documents and images about execution of the Jews.
(1941-1943; Russian transcription, facsimiles, and images)
Article describing Ukraine during World War II including quotes from pertinent documents and facsimiles.
(1941-1944; images, facsimiles, English language)
Includes first-hand accounts from Jewish ghettos in Ukraine.
(1941-1945; English transcription)
Images from World War II period in Ukraine and concentration camp in Lviv, Poland.
(1941-1944; facsimiles, English language)
Photo from World War II period in Ukraine.
(1941-1944).
Accounts of Dutch officers who were POWs and rescued by Ukrainian farmers.
On the right hand sidebar are interviews, including videos and excerpt transcriptions.
(1942-1944; English videos and transcriptions)
(1917-1945; images, transcriptions and translations)
Policies that Nazis wished to impose on occupied territories in Ukraine.
(July 23, 1942; Russian translation)
Stalin order Soviet troops to not retreat ("Not one step back!"), to create penalty battalions, and to shoot anyone who does retreat.
(July 28, 1942; Russian transcription)
Documents from Yalta conference between USSR, Great Britain, and US.
(February 4-11, 1943; Russian transcription)
Assigns awards to military units for liberating Donbass from Nazis.
(September 8, 1943; Russian transcription)
Pictures and commentary regarding activities of Skyptynskyi in World War II.
(English facsimiles and commentary)
Orders from Stalin about deportation of Tatars, Bulgarians, and peoples from Northern Caucasus.
(1944; Russian transcription)
Declassified documents about activities of Ukrainian nationalist organizations in WWII "from federal and departmental archives of the Russian Federation" and "from the archives of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany."
Full reference: "Ukrainian nationalist organizations in the Second World War. Documents: in 2 v. T. 2: 1944-1945 / ed. AN Artizova. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN), 2012."
From Russian Archives Portal Electronic Library.
Also see Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations in WWII, Volume 1: 1939-1943.
(1944-1945; Russian transcriptions)
90 titles, publications of Ukrainian émigrés living in Germany, Austria, Italy and other Western European countries.
Digitized by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
(1945-1956; PDF facsimiles)
Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
(17 July 1953; PDF facsimiles)
65 issues of magazine unofficially published by dissidents. Accounts court cases and repressions against USSR dissidents.
(1968-1983; Russian transcription)
From website of Supreme Council of Ukraine.
(1985-2014; Ukrainian transcriptions)
Facsimiles of official documents related to the Chernobyl plant.
From the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Includes memoranda, informational messages, and reports.
Documents discuss low-quality construction and assembly work, violations of technological discipline and safety rules (read more about the documents here).
(1940 - 28 April 2011; Russian facsimiles, Ukrainian interface)
Conferences, orders, and resolutions about Chernobyl situation.
(1986-2010, Russian transcription)
Data, investigation, and history of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
(English and Russian text)
Document was created by the committee about repressions which took place in USSR in 1930-1950.
Document was classified.
(December 25, 1988; Russian transcription)
Collected primary documents from the end of the Cold War.
(1980's; English)
A catastrophic nuclear accident resulted in many deaths and the abandonment of a town.
(1986- ; Russian and English; video)
Adopted by the General Conference at its special session
(1986; English)
First and only Ukrainian census.
(1989; English)

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