Research Guides
History : Europe: Primary - East
A research guide to primary and secondary sources for European history.
Eastern Europe
Primary sources from the countries of Eastern Europe which according to the United Nations are: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
Images: 1937 poster of Stalin courtesy of Stalinka, 1939 issue of Dziennik Krakowski courtesy of Polona & 1906 issue of Адская почта courtesy of the Russian Satirical Journals Collection
Major European-Wide Collections
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Other Eastern Europe
- Czechoslovakia Crisis; 1968 : The State Department's Crisis Files This link opens in a new window
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Ukraine
- Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers
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- Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers
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Russia
For additional open access collections of Russian & Soviet Union primary sources see Harvard's Digital Handbook for Research on Soviet History.
- Current Digest of the Russian Press 1949-2021
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- Izvestiia Digital Archive 1917-2022
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- Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
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- Soviet Union Political Reports 1917-1970
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- Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991
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