We Recommend - REESOURCES. Rethinking Eastern Europe

EUROPEAN MEMORIES OF THE GULAG is an adaptable “continuous book” with its multimedia content is intended to scale up as current research progresses into the forced displacement of people from the vast area of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet empire. There are five components: Sound archives presents the history of the Stalin-era deportations by theme, biography, geography and period; Articles comprises scholarly papers; Pathways into History enables a wider public to understand history through its sources; Research Workshop describes the research methodologies; Research Data provides access to sources.

TG Archive of the War – project created by Center for Urban History that aims to document how Ukrainians are learning about, experiencing, and sharing Russo-Ukrainian war testimonies through Telegram.

The EHRI portal offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond. EHRI has a Document Blog which is a space to share ideas about Holocaust-related archival documents, and their presentation and interpretation using digital tools. The portal has recently lauched online edition that focuses on Holocaust survivor´s testimonies of the so-called “Documentation Campaign” in Prague (Dokumentační akce), one of the earliest postwar projects to document the events of the Shoah, collecting evidence, documents, and witness testimonies.

Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin is research institute that carries out multiple scientific and cultural projects on Polish–German relations in the context of European history and culture.

This is online archive of primary sources on Soviet history, mostly focus on Russian based documents.

The Herder Institute offers textual sources (“documents”) and maps, pictures or statistics (“materials”) on many historical topics relating to Central and Eastern Europa to lecturers, university students and the interested public.

Socialism Realised is the learning environment that enables us to find and analyse multimedia content about the communist regimes in Europe. Using the Czechoslovak example, it explores the specifics of life in the Eastern bloc. The project attempts to bring the experiences, thoughts, feelings and problems of people who lived under communism.

The aim of the Copernico portal created by Herder Institute is to make scientific research more visible and to open up new ways of preserving and presenting cultural heritage of Eastern Europe in the public eye.

Ukraїnica is a database and syllabus-building tool, created by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute to help in teaching Ukraine in a classroom. This platform is meant to be a constantly growing resource where everyone participates as a contributor.

Online Primary Sources for Russian, Caucasian, Central Asian, Eastern & Central Europe Studies aims to provide researchers and students with sources from Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern and Central Europe. The project curated by the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC), in Paris.

The ‘Peripheral Histories?‘ portal is a space to share emerging research on regions and peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which have been perceived as geographically, politically or culturally ‘peripheral’.

Czechoslovaks in the Gulag’ project is focused on documenting political repression against Czechoslovaks in the Soviet Union, and was created by Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. On the basis of published testimonies of survivors, specialist and popularising articles, databases, exhibitions and video recordings of debates, as well as links to related projects, the project intends to provide basic orientation in the given subject, in the documents gathered within the project and in the results it has achieved.

Fragile Heritage is the portal of architectural modernism of the front-line and temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine, museums and private collections.

UKRAINE: Great Transformations is an archival platform of oral histories and records of huge changes in the structure of Ukrainian peasant culture of the 1920s and 1930s, instrumental music, and traditional practices of kobzars and lyre players.

The Project is aimed to introduce Ukrainian culture to all interested to get to know more about it. This introduction is provided by professional researchers. With love, without kitsch.

“Digital Memory Storage” initiative is the project conducted by Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in order to digitize thier archival collections and make them freely available.