Site Self-Description: "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History contains a rich archive of texts, images, maps and audio and video materials from the Soviet era (1917-1991). The materials are arranged by year and by subject, are fully searchable, and are translated into English. Students, educators, and scholars will find fascinating materials about Soviet propaganda, politics, economics, society, crime, literature, art, dissidents and hundreds of other topics". This site can be accessed here: http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php
Site's about us section tells us the following, "SEVENTEEN MOMENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY was funded by a generous educational development grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). The project was directed and created by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University). Since 2007, Kristen Edwards (Menlo College) has collected materials for the website from the Hoover Archives and Stanford Libraries and she participated in the 2008 project to update website design. The website underwent a complete redesign in 2008, thanks to a research grant from Macalester College and private donations. Our website designer, Christian Meister, greatly improved navigation, search tools, music box, and overall functionality. Users will also appreciate the larger images and videos".
I've used this site a few times- it is an amazing resource. It includes translated documents, images, music and film. I showed clips from the original construction of Magnitogorsk to accompany a class discussion about Magnetic Mountain.
ReplyDelete-Historichnik.