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

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Historical Newspapers
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
Full text searching of the Time of London, a major British news source.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
An illustrated weekly newspaper from the United Kingdom.
NewsVault
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
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
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 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)
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
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 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