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The Maisky Diaries: New Content Added to Stalin Digital Archive

The Maisky Diaries highlight the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London. Stalin Digital Archive subscribers can access all three volumes of this extraordinary narrative diary.
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The Stalin Digital Archive

The SDA is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP) to create an electronic database of finding aids, to digitize documents and images, and to publish in different forms and media materials from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.
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Editor Projects

The SDA Editorial Board has curated editorial projects organized around specific areas of scholarly interest and historical importance. Each project has an introductory essay, a range of affiliated documents chosen from the SDA's holdings, and a select number of text-searchable transcriptions and translations.
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Explore the Stalin Digital Archive

The Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents from Fond 558, which covers Stalin's personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs.


Opis 1: documents written by Stalin from 1889-1952.
Opis 2: documents written by Stalin from 1911-1944.
Opis 3: over 300 books from Stalin's personal library with his marginal notes.
Opis 4: Stalin's biographical materials.
Opis 11: Stalin's correspondence and documents. This Opis covers a period from 1917 to 1952.
AOC Volumes: the 30 volumes from YUP's Annals of Communism series.

Editor Projects
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The Great Terror
Stalin's Library
Stalin as Editor
Stalin and the Far East
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    First Russian Revolution
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    Reconstruction and New Economic Policy
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    Collectivization, Industrialization, and Terror
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    World War II and the Great Patriotic War
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    Reconstruction and the Onset of the Cold War
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    After Stalin.
    Khrushchev Reforms
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    Brezhnev and "Stagnation"
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    Perestroika and End of the Soviet Union
SDA News & Updates
  • January 18, 2018 at 11:34 am
    The Maisky Diaries
  • September 15, 2016 at 2:56 pm
    SDA Site Update
  • October 16, 2014 at 11:27 am
    SDA Fall 2014 Newsletter
  • March 31, 2014 at 4:53 pm
    New! Transcriptions and Translations
  • March 14, 2014 at 12:28 pm
    Editor Projects
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Editors' Picks
  • *, Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich (Stalin) Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), Bolshevik Party, Bolshevik Center, Central Committee, RKP(b), Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Executive Commission of the Bolshevik Party, Executive Committee of Bolsheviks, Provincial and Regional Party Committees of the RKP(b), Communist Party of the Soviet Union, CPSU, All-Union Communist Party, VKP(b), CC and CCC of the VKP(b), Central Control Commission of the VKP(b), Republic and Territorial (Regional) Control Commissions, Conference of the Russian Communist Party, Plenium of the Central Committee VKP(b) (Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party), RK VKP(b), Congress of the Communist Party, Central Committee of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
  • Kaganovich to Stalin, Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich
  • Kaganovich to Stalin, Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich
  • Letter from Stalin to Menzhinskii, Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich (Stalin)
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