EuroDocs : Russia : Soviet Union History This website offers an extensive list of annotated links to primary source collections. Find primary source documents dating from 1917-1991.

Revelations from the Russian Archives This Library of Congress exhibit presented documents, photographs, and films from the highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule for the first time in a public venue. You can view and study digital versions of these documents. To view scans and photographs of documents, click on the section links "Internal Workings of the Soviet System" and "The Soviet Union and the United States." You can browse available documents by categories such as The Gulag, Collectivization and Industrialization, Anti-religious Campaigns, and Attacks on Intelligentsia.

Europeana Europeana includes a lot of primary source materials pertaining to 20th century Russian history, but given the large size of the collection, it's a good idea to search for a topic rather than try to browse for sources.

Eastern European and Slavic Studies Collection (University of Wisconsin) The "Eastern European and Slavic Studies Collection" at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the study of this region including its history, literature, language, political science and more." (includes some sources in English, others in Russian)

European Memories of the Gulag An international team of researchers collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from private and public archives and films. The website provides short interviews in the original language of former Gulag deportees (with transcriptions in French, English, Polish, or Russian) as well as some photos and videos from the period under consideration. (1939 to 1953)