Research Guides: History: Primary Sources: Russia and the Soviet Union

Primary Sources: A definition

Written primary sources are first-hand accounts from people who witnessed or were involved in the events being described. They include letters or reports written by the people involved, official documents, or photographs of the events. They also include memoirs written later.

Books on Russia and the Soviet Union

The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918; documents and materials by by James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher
Call Number: DK265 .B981961
The chronicle of Henry of Livonia by a translation with introd. and notes by James A. Brundage
Call Number: DK511.L3 H413
The oldest known written document about the history of Estonia and Latvia.
Documents on Polish-Soviet relations, 1939-1945
Call Number: DK4410 .L661961
Documents on the Holocaust : selected sources on the destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union by D804.19 .D63 1999
Call Number: D804.19 .D63 1999
ISBN: 0803210507
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union : studies and sources on the destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR, 1941-1945 by Lucjan Dobroszycki
Call Number: DS135.R92 H641993
ISBN: 1563241730
The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov by edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov
Call Number: Schaumburg Campus Library JC599.S58 K43 2005
ISBN: 0300106815
Official documents concerning Polish-German and Polish-Soviet relations, 1933-1939
Call Number: DK440 .A51939B
Paulus and Stalingrad; a life of Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus, with notes, correspondence, and documents from his papers by Görlitz, Walter
Call Number: DD247.P38 G6131964
Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States : documents, data, and analysis by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paige Sullivan, editors
Call Number: DK1.5 .R876 1997
A Source book for Russian history from early times to 1917 by George Vernadsky
Call Number: DK3 .S671972
Soviet foreign policy, 1928-1934; documents and materials, by by Xenia Joukoff Eudin and Robert M. Slusser.
Call Number: DK63 .E8
The Soviet government and the Jews, 1948-1967 : a documented study by Benjamin Pinkus
Call Number: DS135.R92 P561984
The Soviet stand on Germany : 9 key documents including diplomatic papers and major speeches by N.S. Khrushchev
Call Number: DD257.25 .S59
Soviet war documents : addresses, notes, orders of the day, statements
Call Number: D735 .R91943
Stalinism as a way of life : a narrative in documents by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov
Call Number: DK267 .S69386 2000
ISBN: 0300084803
The Stalinist terror in the thirties; documentation from the Soviet press. by Compiled with pref. and introd. by Borys Levytsky
Call Number: DK267 .L425
World War I : a history in documents by Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee
Call Number: Schaumburg Campus Library D505 .C64 2011
ISBN: 9780199731510

Books On The Soviet Union In The Second World War

Documents on Polish-Soviet relations, 1939-1945
Call Number: DK4410 .L661961
Soviet war documents : addresses, notes, orders of the day, statements
Call Number: Call Number: D735 .R91943
Tank rider : into the Reich with the Red Army by Bessonov, Evgeni
Call Number: D764 .B47 2003

Web Sites

Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
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.
Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
Hosted by New York Public Library.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Hosted by the Library of Congress.