Research Guides: Russian Studies: Find Primary Sources

Recommended Primary Source Collections

The Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991
Reports, publications, and news broadcasts offering firsthand analysis, descriptions, and viewpoints of every facet of the Cold War.
Pravda Archive, 1959-1996, Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives
This database includes both the perspective of the Communist Party during the Soviet era and of Russia’s conservative-nationalist opposition in articles published after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Articles published by Pravda, the official news source of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1959 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA.

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