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Russian and East European Studies

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Russian Museum Collections

The State Hermitage Museum

Gallery of high-resolution artwork images from the State Hermitage Museum. Users can search or browse.

The State Russian Museum

Located in Saint Petersburg, the world's largest collection of Russian art. 

The State Tretyakov Galleries 

In Russian or English. Site lets you search the Tretyakov Museum's collections for images of icons, paintings, drawings, sculpture and other works of art.

Russian Libraries

United States and European Libraries

British Library:

Russian Revolution

Duke University:

Russian Posters Collection, 1919-1989 and undated

Americans in the Land of Lenin: Documentary Photographs of Early Soviet Russia, 1919-1930

French National Research Agency (ANR) (funding entity):

Sound Archives : European Memories of the Gulag

Harvard University:

Russian Theatrical Designs

The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System

International Institute of Social History:

The Chairman Smiles (Soviet/Chinese/Cuban Posters)

Library of Congress:

Brumfield Collection (pre-Soviet architecture)

Fenton Crimean War Photographs

Meeting of the Frontiers/Встреча на границах (American exploration/settlement of West, the parallel exploration/settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest).

Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States

Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection (Russian Empire 1909-1915)

New York Public Library's Slavic and Baltic Digital Collections:

Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935

Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945

Swarthmore College: 

Soviet Posters

University of Michigan:

Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections (American military intervention in Archangel, Russia at end of WWI)

University of Pittsburgh

Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana (Stalin and Stalinism)

University of Wisconsin Madison:

Islam and Eurasia: Bridging the Information Divide (travel accounts of Muslim regions of Russian Empire)

Russian Satirical Journals

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee:

Images of Russia and Caucasus Region 1929-1933

Yale University:

The Cold War 

Cold War Diplomacy : Defense Treaties of the U.S.

Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941

Soviet-American Diplomacy 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Cold War International History Project

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