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Creator: Український інститут національної пам'яті

Language: Ukrainian

Since the Maidan Revolutions of 2013-2014, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory has collected oral history accounts from the Maidan Revolutions and, subsequently, of the Russo-Ukrainian War from 2015 through the present. Transcripts of these oral histories have been collected into several-volume books that are available for free download in both ePub and PDF formats. Each volume is devoted…

Tags: 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Database of publications by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences dating back to the 1920s. While much of the content is from recent years, users can search by date to find historic publications. Especially rich for archaeological expeditions in Ukraine during the Soviet period.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна академія наук України

Language: Ukrainian

Open access PDF copies of several archaeological academic journals from the early Soviet period through the present.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Героика

Language: Ukrainian

The "names of independent Ukraine" database provides information on Ukrainian soldiers who were active in the country's independence struggles from 1917-1924, including military registers, biographical information, and related photos, monuments, and documents. The project includes several oral histories, and some soldiers' entries include more thorough information. The database estimates that it…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Language: English

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's historical and contemporary atlas projects provide data, statistics, maps, photographs, and analysis on a wide range of topics throughout Ukrainian history, as well as on contemporary politics and society. MAPA brings the latest innovations in information technology to Ukrainian studies in this approach to the country's past and present. The breadth of…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| Early Modern| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

Creator: Miriam Dobson and Nadezhda Beliakova

Language: English

A digital project by academics Dr. Miriam Dobson and Dr. Nadezhda Beliakova, sharing primary sources collected during their research on Protestant communities in the USSR, many of whom were located in Ukraine. Sources include archival documents from state archives and Memorial, original oral history interviews with accompanying English transcriptions, and correspondence. Click "site-map" for a…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: CIA.gov

Language: English

The CIA's declassified collection of digitized documents, available in its online reading room, is a rich source for Ukrainian and Soviet history. A simple search for "Soviet Ukraine" revealed thousands of relevant results and more advanced search is possible. The wide array of U.S. intelligence documents sheds light on a great variety of issues and questions on Ukraine during the Soviet period.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: European Research Council

Language: English

Visual and textual materials relating to the creative practices and material culture of the religious underground under state socialism, sourced from secret police archives in Central and Eastern Europe. While materials pertain to religious groups throughout 20th-century socialist Europe, Ukraine is a major focus of the archive. Ukrainian materials are found throughout the various collections and…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України

Language: Ukrainian

An online archive of Ukrainian revolution materials organized by month from May 1917-April 1921. Clicking each month leads to a page with archival documents and photos from that month in the revolution. These images come directly from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO).

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: OUN

Language: Ukrainian

This is a website run by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) based in London. Digitized sources relate both to the OUN and nationalism, and to other topics in 20th century Ukrainian history. Includes oral history interviews of nationalist figures as well as other prominent Ukrainian figures, including video components.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Державна архівна служба України

Language: Ukrainian

The State Archival Service of Ukraine compiled this database of Ukrainian victims of Soviet repression from the 1920s-50s. The database information is drawn from different archives throughout Ukraine. Overall, entries on victims provide basic biographical information and in some cases a photograph. Individuals are searchable by name, nationality, and other keywords.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Український інститут національної пам'яті

Language: Ukrainian

Since 2011, the "Rehabilitated by History" book series has published collections of archival documents, biographical and memoir essays, and studies pertaining to NKVD/KGB activity, political persecution, and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine. Focus on the victims of repression and their personal stories is especially rich in this project. Several "Rehabilitated by History" books have been…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Центральний державний науково-технический архів України

Language: Ukrainian

Collections of records from various science, engineering, technical, military and industrial projects in Ukraine in the late Soviet period. To find open access digitized materials (as opposed to listings of undigitized archival holdings): under "Пошук", select "Пошук за атрибутам". On the next page, select "Цифрова копія документа НАФ" ("digitized copy of NAF document") and search categories will…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна історична бібліотека України

Language: Ukrainian

This online archive compiles journals, papers, archival materials, and other publications created within the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences during the early Soviet period. Users can search using keywords or by browsing the collections of different departments, including history, philology, archaeology, museum studies, arts, socioeconomics, anthropology, and more.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: College of Europe Natolin Campus

Language: English

The Three Revolutions project compiles sources on the three revolutions that have occurred on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) since 1990 — The Revolution on Granite (1990), the Orange Revolution (2004-2005), and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013-2014). These materials include archival documents, media, and original oral history interviews. To access the project's open access…

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Электронная Книга Памяти Украины 1941-1945

Language: Russian

A searchable database of Ukrainian soldiers who served during World War II. This database comprises a digitized version of the "Book of Memory of Ukraine," a document published since 1994 that lists Ukrainian soldiers who died during the Second World War. The digital project complements this information with portraits, photos of military medals, and information on partisans and prisoners of war.…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

A collection of digitized archival documents on the political and social history of the Ukrainian revolution, 1917-1921. Documents largely pertain to the formation and governance of the independent Ukrainian People's Republic that existed between 1917 and 1921. The project has also compiled cultural sources from the period, including poetry and a playlist of revolutionary songs. The website also…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory has created and compiled a diverse range of oral histories on topics throughout modern Ukrainian history. Interviews touch on everything from the Holodomor of the 1930s through the 21st century revolutions in Ukraine.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

Ukrainica is a major database compiling reference, informational, and documentary sources on the broadest areas of Ukrainian history, culture, economics, and more. Its sources are archival, published, and manuscript documents and include materials created both within and without Ukraine, on all topics related to documenting the history and heritage of the Ukrainian people.

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