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From this page you may link to connected sites:
The Oral History Society provides excellent advice and information on the practice of oral history.
The Oral History Centre at the European University in St Petersburg has carried out a number of projects, including two on the Siege of Leningrad. Some of the interviews are available in PDF
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to transcripts to 705 interviews with refugees from the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War.
The Kennan Institute-National Public Radio Russian History Audio Archive has sound recordings of witnesses to Soviet history.
The Russian State Archive of Audio Documents (RGAF) has a large collection of sound recordings.
The Sakharov Center has put on line a large collection of memoirs about the Gulag.
The Oxford Russian Life History Archive contains materials from two oral history projects led by Catriona Kelly: Childhood in Russia, 1890-1991: A Social and Cultural History; and Russian National Identity from 1961: Traditions and Deterritorialisation.
Letters from Stalin's Russia contains materials from the Mennonite community.
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