Stephen V. Bittner
Associate Professor of History
Resources
1925 advertisement for Trekhgornoe Beer, which rids consumers of "sanctimoniousness and homebrew"
(design, Aleksandr Rodchenko; text, Vladimir Mayakovsky)
Russian Resources for Anglophones
Contemporary Russia/Former Soviet Union:
Johnson's Russia List, a daily anthology of English-language journalism about Russia/FSU (email subscription available).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, news from the FSU and Eastern Europe (email subscription available).
The Moscow Times, Russia's largest English-language newspaper.
Sher's Russian Web, Benjamin Sher's catalogue of all things Russian.
Archival Documents and Primary Sources:
Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project, University of Toronto.
Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Revelations from the Russian Archives, Library of Congress.
Vladimir Bukovsky's Soviet Archives Project, in Russian and English.
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, a document anthology compiled by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University). Registration is free.
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, searchable, English-language transcripts of 705 interviews that were conducted with Soviet refugees after the Second World War.