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I don't usually add blogs however this one has so much quality historical material on real life in the USSR that I thought some people might find it useful. Might help to dispel some of the myths about life in the big bad evil Soviet Empire.

From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia. An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from private and public archives and films. Many of these witnesses had never spoken out before. In these statements and these documents, the Museum invites you to explore a neglected chapter of the history of Europe.

I reproduce today SPUTNIK Soviet Journal article of November 11, 1968, on the meaning of the Military Orders in the Soviet Union. SOVIET ORDERS Orders are few among the many prizes that include past and present of a country. By publishing an article on Soviet orders. SPUTNIK want to give your readers a glimpse of a not so distant past of the USSR.

Primary sources on the Russian Revolution

A collection of documents, images and audio sources on Lenin. The Communist, not the Beatle.

Primary sources from the Soviet History at Marxist.org

A collection of primary source materials on some of the key decisions of the C20th & C21st. Also contains information on voting records and also humanitarian records.

An excellent resource for the Cold War! Clearly labelled and well-maintained links to primary source documents. Just what we like!

I've found this to be a great source of information on the Cold War, and they have an email newsletter (which makes it easy to keep up with news, etc).

Contains thousands of documents from the Nuremberg Trials. Search function is excellent, too. Very organised. I like organised.

The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Has comprehensive links to sites useful for history research.

There isn't a whole lot of valuable source material at this site that I could find, but it has a large amount of links to other sites which would be useful for research or activities in the Cold War.

"The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I." Not to mention there were a few other countries involved as well... Contains primary sources and images.

The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I.

Will contain some interesting documents relating to events in American history during the 20th and 21st centuries. Definitely one for the conspiracy nuts.

Archive of links to sources on American history from 1800 to the present. Seems to focus especially on the wars and economic matters.

An archive of German propaganda from the Nazi and also USSR-occupation periods maintained by a bloke at Calvin University.

A collection of translations of German propaganda material from the Nazi and East German eras, as well as a large number of images of posters and other visual material.