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Primary Sources: World War II: Soviet Union

primary sources related to WWII (1939-1945)

Online Sources: Soviet Union in WWII

NYPLDC: Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
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"Original Russian and East European photographs from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, in more than 150 albums."
WWII: The Soviet Union Joins the Allies
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"This collection reveals some of the pressures on the BBC as it sought to balance the wartime need for propaganda with unrestricted reporting of the news. "
Provided by the BBC

Book Sources: Soviet Union in WWII

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Barbarossa Derailed by David M. Glantz
Call Number: D764.3.S66 G52 2014 v.3
ISBN: 1909982113
Chiang Kaishek's Last Ambassador to Moscow by Yee-Wah Foo
Call Number: DS777.5195.F82 F66 2011
ISBN: 9780230584778
Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad by David M. Glantz
Call Number: D764.3.S7 G5884 2014
ISBN: 0700619569
The Complete Maisky Diaries by Ivan Maisky
Call Number: DK268.M3 A3 2017
ISBN: 9780300117820
Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union During World War II by Jack Nusan Porter and Yehuda Merin
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781644694947
Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment by Natalia S. Lebedeva (Editor); Wojciech Materski; Anna M. Cienciala (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780300151855
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives (ebook) by Richard Bidlack; Nikita Lomagin; Marian Schwartz (Translator)
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Call Number: Online - ProQuest Central
ISBN: 9780300183306
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives (print book) by Richard Bidlack et al.
Call Number: D764.3.L4 B48 2012
ISBN: 9780300110296
Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov by Geogry Zhukov; Geoffrey Roberts (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781473831834
Mussolini's Death March by Nuto Revelli; John Penuel (Translator)
Call Number: D764 .R4613 2013
ISBN: 0700619089
Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front
Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941 by Raymond James Sontag and James Stuart Beddie (editors)
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
Documents from the Archives of the the German Foreign Office
Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Documents from the archives of the German Foreign Office. Edited by Raymond James Sontag and James Stuart Beddie.
Russia at War, 1941-1945 by Alexander Werth; Nicolas Werth (Foreword by)
Call Number: D764 .W48 2017
ISBN: 9781510716254
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History by Jerrold L. Schecter; Leona P. Schecter
Call Number: Online - Borrow - Internet Archive*
ISBN: 1574883275
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The Siege of Leningrad
Call Number: D764.3.L4 S54 2014 (DVD)
Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union by Cathy A. Frierson
Call Number: DK268.A1 F75 2015
ISBN: 9780300179453
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Call Number: D810.W7 A5313 2017
ISBN: 0399588728
War, The Holocaust and Stalinism by Shimon Redlich
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9783718657391
A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman
Call Number: D764 .G772 2005
ISBN: 0375424075
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Edited and translated by Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova
Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (print book) by Cynthia Simmons; Nina Perlina (Contribution by)
Call Number: D764.3.L4 S56 2005
ISBN: 9780822941835
Writing the Siege of Leningrad : Womens Diaries Memoirs and Documentary Prose (ebook) by Cynthia Simmons; Nina Perlina (Contribution by)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780822972747
Publication Date: 2003-03-15

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