The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
Digital Archive 1949 to the present
In English
The CDPSP Digital Archive creates a sweeping panoramic chronicle
of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union as a superpower
and the emergence of modern Russia. more>>
Encompassing the entire run of The Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, the digital archive is a comprehensive
retrospective digest of the news presented to the Soviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold War
through the emergence of Russia in the new balance of power.
Published with this care weekly since 1949, The Current Digest paints a broad picture of Soviet and post-Soviet times, including
coverage of domestic affairs and social issues. Articles translated for The Current Digest include important news and comments from
the leading dailies and government reports of the day. During the Soviet era, hundreds of other special interest journals and authoritative
sources were also scoured for relevant articles to include. back
The CDPSP Digital Archive supports cross-disciplinary research
for:
- Undergraduate and graduate students
- Scholars and librarians
- Researchers and policy-makers
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For those who want to be in the know the CDPSP Digital Archive illuminates events of interest in Soviet/Russian affairs with authentic
digests of Russian-language news and documents of current interest. It provides access to information about the government, culture, and
peoples of the world's other superpower, once almost totally hidden from view outside its borders.
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The CDPSP Digital Archive
promises to expand research
possibilities
for many of tomorrow's researchers.
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| More than 70,000 articles of Soviet and Russian news and commentary are
now available online — in English.
The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet
government, providing an impressive documentary record of:
- all significant speeches by Soviet leaders;
- meetings of all Party congresses, including the 1956 20th Party Congress and Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing the Stalinist
“cult of personality”;
- all five-year plans and reports on plan fulfillment;
- all important Soviet laws, including initial drafts, official public discussion of the drafts, and final versions as adopted by the USSR
Supreme Soviet;
- Soviet diplomacy, Soviet-US summits and other meetings of Soviet leaders with their foreign counterparts; and
- all Soviet treaties, including arms-control treaties, and all major foreign-policy developments, from the Cuban missile crisis through the
Soviet war in Afghanistan and withdrawal from that country.
In the Soviet period, CDPSP editors were ever alert for anything atypical that might herald a change in Soviet life. At the same time
they provided readers with representative samples of what was typically in the press.
Photos on this page illustrate
historical events only -
not
CDPSP Digital Archive content.
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The deep historical collection of the
CDPSP Digital Archive
is fully indexed
with current content of the CDPSP.
| East View’s Universal Database™ (UDB™) delivers a
reliable and effective research platform that enhances the resource-rich and authoritative CDPSP Digital Archive.
The user-friendly UDB platform quickly reveals unique historical, political, scientific and social connections from within almost 60
years of primary-source materials.
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Full-image browsing enables users to leaf through content in a natural
way similar to print editions.
The CDPSP Digital Archive’s indexing adds powerful English language subject access to the major events of postwar
Russia.
- Full-image content offers the complete original pages with graphical content unavailable in fulltext only databases.
- In-line browsing of full-image page content requires no need to open separate files for each page. All pages containing linked content are
presented together in search results for a natural reading experience.
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The CDPSP Digital Archive’s indexing adds powerful English language subject access to the major events of postwar Russia.
For libraries subscribed to other East View Universal Databases, adding the CDPSP’s English-language index will help your patrons accomplish primary source research within East View’s many vernacular databases.
Because the CDPSP’s UDB platform integrates cross-searching across all other UDB content your UDB databases are enhanced with
The Current Digest’s English-language indexing.
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Choose the complete collection – or select specific political
periods.
The complete CDPSP Digital Archive includes all the issues
from 1949 to the present.
| Years |
Leaders of the Period |
| 1949 – 1953 |
Stalin, Malenkov & Bulganin |
| 1953 – 1964 |
Khrushchev |
| 1964 – 1982 |
Brezhnev |
| 1982 – 1991 |
Andropov, Chernenko & Gorbachev |
| 1991 – 1999 |
Yeltsin |
| 2000 – 2006 |
Putin |
Each subset offers a weekly digest of social, cultural, scientific,
and political coverage corresponding to its discrete historical
period.
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