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Primary source materials from the former Soviet Union

East View produces a variety of valuable collections for researchers and graduate-level students to support a range of academic studies. These historical research collections come from many different authoritative sources including previously classified military documents and state archives. Subjects range from the Polish uprising of 1830 and Jewish pogroms of 1905 to the siege of Leningrad and combat tactics of the Red Army during World War II. Collections are available online, in full-image, text-searchable files, providing researchers with convenient access to rare, primary source materials.

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Soviet Military Declassified

This integrated set of four collections offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the Soviet military knowledge system, bringing together primary documents, analytical research, instructional materials, and the broader intellectual framework that shaped officer training and doctrinal development.

Offered on East View’s e-book platform, the collections span the mid-20th century through the late Soviet period, a formative era during which Soviet military thought was systematized in response to the experience of the Second World War and the strategic demands of the Cold War.

Available Collections

Military Academy Dissertations (159 volumes)
Library of the General Staff Academy (VAGSh) (1,432 volumes)
Military Academy Studies and Texts (851 volumes)
Ministry of Defense and General Staff Reports (370 volumes)

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Research Collections

Research Collections

Jewish Studies: Judaica Digital Collections
  • Promoting Jewish Education
  • Jewish Societies in Ukraine
  • Anti-Semitic Organizations: Union of the Russian People
  • Jewish Pogroms in Kyiv
  • Victims of Pogroms
  • Mendel Beilis Trial Papers
  • Jewish Emigration from Ukraine
  • Jewish Emigration from the USSR
Ukrainian Studies
  • Assassination of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, 1911. A Collection of Documents
  • The Chernobyl Collection. Documents and Maps
  • Coalition Council of Kyiv Students
  • Collection of Documents of the German Occupation Period
  • Critical Moments in Ukrainian History: Leaflets and Posters, 1905-1945
  • Documentary Evidence of Underground and Guerrilla Activities During the Nazi Occupation of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast
  • German Occupation of Kyiv: Documents of the Commissariat-General, 1941-1943
  • German Occupation of Kyiv: Documents of the Nazi-Controlled City Administration, 1941-1943
  • German Occupation of Ukraine: Documents of the Town of Belaia Tserkov
  • Guides to the State and Oblast Level Archives of Ukraine
  • Kyiv District Military Commander
  • Occupation Authorities of Kyiv, 1941-1943
  • Office of the Commissioner of the Kyiv Provisional Government
  • Polish Legions, 1917-1918
  • Polish Uprising of 1830-1831: Documents of the Kyiv Governorship Investigative Commission
  • The Prosvita Society in Kyiv: The Ukrainian Struggle for Self-Identity in 1906-1920
  • Provincial Press of Ukraine Under German Occupation
  • Rayon Administration of the City of Kyiv During the German Occupation, 1941-1943
  • Rayon Administration of the City of Kyiv During the German Occupation, 1941-1943. Part II. Podolsk Rayon
  • Secret Police of Hetman Skoropadsky, The Papers of the Provisional Government of Ukraine, 1918
Military Studies
  • NEW! Soviet Military Declassified
  • Documentary Evidence of Underground and Guerrilla Activities During the Nazi Occupation of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast’
  • German Occupation of Kyiv: Documents of the Commissariat-General, 1941-1943
  • German Occupation of Kyiv: Documents of the Nazi-Controlled City Administration, 1941-1943
  • German Occupation of Ukraine: Documents of the Town of Belaia Tserkov
  • Kyiv District Military Commander
  • Limited Distribution Books from the Soviet Book Chamber
  • Military History Journal, 1939-1998
  • Military Personnel of the Soviet State During the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945
  • Polish Legions, 1917-1918

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