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The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. The HPSSS’s value is compounded by the fact that it was compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework, making it accessible to a broad range of students and scholars.

Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of primary source materials from eastern and western European countries.

The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives on the internet continues to grow, finding and selecting digital repositories becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by listing the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for single countries.

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.

A collection of digital archives (spend some time looking through the lists)

Eds. Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, and Janos M. Reiner. New York: Central European Press, 2002.

Karakasidou, Anastasia N. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Eds. Andrzej Paczkowski and Malcolm Byrne. New York: Central European University Press, 2007.

Berend, T. Ivan. New York: Central European Press, 2011.

Eds. Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Gorny, and Vangelis Kechriotis. In Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945), vol. 3 (2). New York: Central European University Press, 2010.

Eds. Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Gorny, and Vangelis Kechriotis. In Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945), vol. 3 (1). New York: Central European University Press, 2010.

Eds. Gyorkei, Jeno and Miklos Horvath. New York: Central European Press, 1999.

Iggers, Wilma. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.

An on-line archive of primary source materials on Soviet history.