World Spotlight: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
These primary source collections relate to Russia as well as the former Soviet Union.
Online exhibitions
World Digital Library sources
Meeting of Frontiers, Russia & America in Alaska bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library
Images
- Prokudin-Gorskii Collection color photos from the Russian empire 1905-1915
- Russia images
- Soviet Union image set
Maps
- Russia maps
- Military successes of The Red Army in the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922
- Soviet Union maps
The Kremlin: Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
U.S. historical newspaper coverage
- Russia
- Timeline & select newspaper articles: Russo-Japanese War 1904-1906
- Timeline & select newspaper articles: Russian Revolution of 1905
- Maxim Gorky, Russian Author – Revolutionary, Visits the US 1906
- Timeline & select newspaper articles: Czar Nicholas II 1894-1921
- Soviet Union
Music
Russia-related films & webcasts
Books & other texts
Legal
- Russian Federation Guide to Law
- Russian 2008 Presidential Election Ephemera Guide
- Russia-related U.S. legislation
- Soviet-Union-related U.S. legislation
Related primary source sets
Teaching resources
- The Alaska Purchase lesson plan
- Guided Primary Source Analysis: Republics of the Soviet Union
- Learning from the Source: Crimea, Ukraine, Russia-Then & Now primary source lesson
- Stalingrad: Understanding the Global Impact of the Eastern Front in WWII Teaching with the Library of Congress blog March 14, 2018
BBC
Related resources
- World Spotlight: Ukraine
- More World Spotlight collections