Soviet
The category of Soviet consists of a variety of aspects of Communist and Socialist Studies, which at different universities can be located within departments of East European studies. This research focus attempts to tackle questions relating to various facets of Soviet society, such as trade relations, nationality policy, human rights, socialist empire, or collectivization and famines in the USSR. Soviet history is often comprehended through metaphors like “party-state,” “totalitarianism,” “thaw,”, “perestroika,” “revolution from above,” “communist labor,” and “post-Soviet,” among others. The purpose of an educational platform is not to confirm or negate such metaphors, or to fill all the thematic or chronological blocks of Soviet history, but rather to enrich our knowledge of European socialism with fresh resources and narratives. Here historians can find materials related to the party-state system, the socialist ambition to create a new man, the way in which people imagined communist societies, urban utopias, and totalitarian practices.
Primary Sources
![Image for Report by workers’ correspondents on the state of cultural and educational work in Kharkiv clubs in the 1920s](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pochemu-skuchno-v-klubah-Harkovskyj-proletaryj.-1928.-18-dek.-S.-3.jpg)
![Image for A Socialist Town near Horlivka in Donbas Region, Ukraine: An Article from 1930](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sotsialistychni-mista-na-Ukrayini_ZHytlova-kooperatsiya-Ukrayiny_1930_6-7_23-25-1_page-0001-768x542.jpg)
![Image for Kharkiv workers on the arrests of Soviet oppositionists in 1929](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_20180618_114407-768x1024.jpg)
![Image for “A Collective of Individuals.” Booklet of the Volyn Amateur Film Studio, 1987](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/23_08_UTOH_NS_Kameniar_024_003-768x1025.jpg)
![Image for View on the Monument to the Soviet Constitution, Lviv 1940](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5954_ca_object_representations_media_3012_large.jpg)
![Image for Members of the cinema club in the village of Novooleksandrivka, Ukrainian SSR, during a film shoot, May 1981](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/kinoamatory-novooleksiyivky-768x522.jpg)
![Image for Film amateurs of the steam locomotive and car repair plant, photograph dated of 1956](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/lvivski-kinoetnuziasty.png)
![Image for Wall newspaper of Kostyantynivka’ bottling plant, 1967](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/32213_ca_object_representations_media_74861_large.jpg)
![Image for A worker from the Lviv Confectionery Factory “Bilshovyk,” T.M. Etinger, at work, 1956](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bilshovyk-768x1099.jpg)
![Image for Members of the Communist Labor Brigade and the presentation of Komsomol tickets at the Mariupol Heavy Machinery Plant](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/28875_ca_object_representations_media_63951_large-1.jpg)
![Image for ASUP Can Do More: A 1975 TV Story by Lviv Television](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/71743_ca_object_representations_media_34072_large.jpg)
![Image for The Electronic Eyes of a Traffic Inspector: A 1971 TV Story by Lviv Television](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/99221_ca_object_representations_media_29539_large.jpg)
![Image for Radio Communication: A 1959 TV Story by Lviv television](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/22076_ca_object_representations_media_24032_large-1.jpg)
![Image for “Screen of Pryazovia” (Pryazovskyi Ekran) № 1, 1969](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/43023_ca_object_representations_media_66668_large-2.jpg)
![Image for Collective of Communist Labor at Shoe Factory, 1960](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/80196_ca_object_representations_media_24075_large-4.jpg)
![Image for Song of the Communist Labor Brigades](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/brigades-768x585.png)