The largest collection of Soviet-era primary sources.
State papers, security files, party records, periodicals, images, memories and maps — translated and indexed down to the page.
Declassified fonds from central and regional state archives: decrees, correspondence, economic reports and personal papers from 1917 to 1991. Every file keeps its archival reference — fond, opis, delo — so citations point straight back to the shelf.
Orders, reports and interrogation records from the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MGB and KGB. Declassification stamps and case markers are preserved alongside every transcript and scan.
Politburo protocols, Central Committee sessions and congress stenographic reports — the internal arguments of power, recorded in full.
Official presses like Pravda and Izvestia page by page, alongside the underground: self-published journals, leaflets and the Chronicle of Current Events.
Propaganda posters, press photographs, film stills and private snapshots — captioned, dated and contextualized.
Recorded testimony from workers, soldiers, dissidents and survivors — transcribed and translated, with the speakers' own words kept audible.
Borders, railways, industrial plans and military maps across seven decades — georeferenced and layered over the modern world.
Peer-reviewed articles and monographs, cross-referenced to the primary sources they rely on — so the scholarship and the record sit side by side.