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Detail of handtinted photograph by Bulla, circa 1900, of Red Square, Moscow

Russia & Eurasia

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    • Overview

    Materials begin with mid-19th century Russian legations in the German states. Others cover major events in the Eurasian heartland: the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, anti-Communist emigration, development of the USSR, Second World War, emergence of the dissident movement, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and development of newly independent states since 1991.

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    Digital Collections

    Diaries, films, and diplomatic records from Russia

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    History of the Russia & Eurasia Collection

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    Letters from the Gulag

    by Emily Johnson via Hoover Digest

    Russian Empire

    Kyrgyzstan

    Soviet Union

    Moldova

    Russian Federation

    Mongolia

    Armenia

    Turkmenistan

    Azerbaijan

    Ukraine

    Belarus

    Uzbekistan

    Georgia

    Unrecognized States

    Kazakhstan
    Anatol Shmelev Hoover Headshot

    Anatol Shmelev

    Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia / Research Fellow

    Anatol Shmelev is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Hoover’s Library & Archives, and the project archivist for its Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection. Shmelev’s expertise is in twentieth-c...

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