Library: HIST 335: Soviet Union in World War II: Primary Sources

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Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of the Chicago Tribune (1849-1990), Los Angeles Times (1881-1990), New York Times (1851-2010), and Washington Post (1877-1997).
Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985 This link opens in a new window
Full text searching of the Time of London, a major British news source.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window
An illustrated weekly newspaper from the United Kingdom.
NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Full text searching of the backfile of a number of British newspapers including the Times of London, The Literary Times Supplement, the Economist, the Financial Times, and more.

World Newsreels Online, 1929-1966 This link opens in a new window
Full runs of selected international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century, including Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time.
Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window
Primary materials including the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and selected proceedings from conferences.
Chatham House Online Archive 1920-2008 This link opens in a new window
This resource contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference.
Primary Sources (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale Primary Sources combines Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface that provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
Includes some coverage of WWII, with most declassified documents culled from the Cold War and Vietnam era.

Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941
From the Avalon Project at Yale.
Foreign Relations of the United States
Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication

Soviet Culture and Power by Katerina Clark (Editor); Oleg V. Naumov (Compiled by); Evgeny Dobrenko (Editor); Andrei Artizov (Compiled by); Marian Schwartz (Translator)
ISBN: 9780300106466
Publication Date: 2007-09-28
Included in the volume are "decisions of the Politburo, Stalin’s correspondence with individual intellectuals, his responses to particular plays, novels, and movie scripts, petitions to leaders from intellectuals, and secret police reports on intellectuals under surveillance. Introductions, explanatory materials, and a biographical index accompany the documents."
Documents on the Holocaust by Yitzhak Arad (Editor); Yisrael Gutman (Editor); Abraham Margaliot (Editor); Lea Ben Dor (Translator)
ISBN: 0803210507
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Includes over 200 documents related to the Holocaust.

Soviet Memoir Literature in English Translation
A bibliography of titles from UW Madison Libraries. Try searching for titles of interest in the library catalog or WorldCat.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
Summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
Russian Posters Collection, 1919-1989 and undated
From Duke University