Jordan Center's All the Russia's blog
NYU's Jordan Center maintains its own blog with regular submissions from faculty, students and guest bloggers.
Multidisciplinary online publications
In Russian.
InLiberty is an educational project and platform for discussing the future of human society, its history and the changes it is undergoing. InLiberty's main focus is the structure of freedom, economics and ethics.
Colta is an online publication with the focus on the contemporary culture, literature and arts.
Arzamas is an educational project dedicated to the history of culture. Its foundation is the series of lectures on history, literature, art, anthropology, philosophy, culture and humanities.
A multidisciplinary non-commercial portal based in St. Petersburg, dedicated to Russian history, arts, philosophy and literature.
(Russian only)
Information portal dedicated to social justice issues and news analysis.
(In Russian)
St. Petersburg-specific portal of news and opinions.
Blogs
Lived Experience (Prozhito), a web project by the Russian historians Mikhail Mel'nichenko, Il'ia Veniavkin, and the programmer Ivan Drapkin, is a searchable Russian language database of hundreds digitized diaries, authored by both well known and "ordinary" Soviet citizens.
MediaZona is a Russian alternative media outlet focused on the judicial, law enforcement and penal system in Russia.
DH Projects
A virtual museum of the "kommunalka", a communal apartment and communal, and of the concept of communal living in the Soviet Union, is a project by Ilya Utekhin (European University, St. Petersburg, Russia).
This site, rich in photographic materials, chronicles the everyday life of ordinary Russian citizens outside of capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The project started in Siberia, but now embraces the provinces all over Russia.
The organisation Gulag.cz is concerned with the phenomenon of the Gulag prison system and the Soviet totalitarian regime in general. Founded at the end of 2009 by Czech scholars, its mission is to share and circulate information about the Soviet Gulag and everything connected with it, including its links to Czechoslovakia and other countries. The site is available in Czech, English and Russian.
The database of the Virtual Museum of the Gulag constitutes a collection of material testimonies to the era of the Soviet terror. These testimonies are scattered through multiple museums and collections and also include "non-museum objects": ruins of camps and structures, monuments and memorial signs. The Virtual Museum of the Gulag is a project of the Research and Information Centre "Memorial" (St Petersburg). Available in English, Russian and German.
Digital maps
Collections of digitized cartographic materials provided by the Russian Geographical Society: atlases, topographic maps, regional maps, historical maps and more. The language of hte source is Russian.
In Russian.
In order to view individual maps, please click on "Оглавление" underneath the image of the book cover. Also includes maps of principle cities, and topical maps (climate, ethnographic, rail and post roads, etc.) In Russian.
The Harvard GIS project.
A collection of digitized Russian, Soviet and Eurasian maps at the University of Texas in Austin.
Digital maps of Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Crimea and the Black Sea, covering 1500-1940s, from Harvard's Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection.
Russian historical maps.
Data sources
The data can be searched by individual country or a general region.
OECD iLibrary is the online portal for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The iLibrary includes book collections, policy reports, statistical abstracts, and the OECD.Stat tool, with which users can create custom extracts from the OECD data warehouse.
World DataBank is a portal to access each of the World Bank datasets, including its World Development Indicators, Global Financial Database, Poverty and Equity Database, Gender Statistics, and more. Users can create custom extracts and export data into various tabular formats.
Our World in Data is a free global development website; it collects, visualizes and shares data on a wide variety of subjects, such as use of natural resources, social issues, internet use, and more.
CRRC's public databases give everyone the opportunity to understand and evaluate the social and political trends in both Georgia and the entire South Caucasus.
Introductory video.
Statistics
The Electronic Repository for Russian Historical Statistics contains a selection of basic indicators of social and economic development within seven broad topics for five historical cross-sections. Available in English and Russian.
Available in both Russian and English.
Available in Russian and English.
The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) is a series of nationally representative surveys designed to monitor the effects of Russian reforms on the health and economic welfare of households and individuals in the Russian Federation. Conducted by the Higher School of Economics.
This non-governmental organization tracks incomes and private property of politicians and public servants. This information is legally required, but until Declarator, it was published on multiple websites. This aggregator of information is intended as a tool for researchers and journalists. The content is available in Russian and English.
All info is in Russian only. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to find links to individual Russian censuses.
Polling services
A well-regarded opinion-polling and socialogical research firm.
Available in Russian and English.
A small, but valuable collection of Soviet- and post-Soviet altases, some of them were produced for general public and some for military professionals. The time span is 1938 to 2008.
While this collection has predominantly North American bias, it has an enormous amount of hi-res world maps that cover Russia and East European countries.
