20th century, Archives, Russia

Site of Russian Archives Online (RAO), home of the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive of Krasnogorsk. Nine thousand Russian-language film records are available for immediate searching with additional entries added monthly. A Russian keyboard and win1251 encoding are required for searching and viewing this site. The Krasnogorsk Catalogue is an ongoing work in progress. The materials in this database are just a portion of the 38,000 film titles (215,000 reels of film) available. In Russian or English.

Site of the Leeds Russian Archive (LRA) (established in 1982), comprised of some 500 collections of manuscripts, photographs and other archival material, a number of printed books, which document Russian history, literature and culture, and Anglo-Russian contacts from the 19th and 20th centuries. A catalog of the archive is now available for searching online using a pilot version via the World Wide Web. Catalog may be searched by keyword or browsed by collection, provenance, language, or description. In English. A nice resource.

The Amherst Center for Russian Culture (ACRC) is a large collection of archives, chiefly dealing with emigre literature during the post-Revolution diaspora. It includes the archives of luminaries like Zinadia Gippius and Andrei Remizov, as well as other lesser-known figures.