Research Guides: Russian and Slavic Studies resources: Blogs/DH projects

Jordan Center's All the Russia's blog

All the Russias
NYU's Jordan Center maintains its own blog with regular submissions from faculty, students and guest bloggers.

InLiberty
In Russian.
InLiberty is an educational project and platform for discussing the future of human society, its history and the changes it is undergoing. InLiberty's main focus is the structure of freedom, economics and ethics.
Colta
Colta is an online publication with the focus on the contemporary culture, literature and arts.
Arzamas
Arzamas is an educational project dedicated to the history of culture. Its foundation is the series of lectures on history, literature, art, anthropology, philosophy, culture and humanities.
"Russian Culture" project
A multidisciplinary non-commercial portal based in St. Petersburg, dedicated to Russian history, arts, philosophy and literature.
Такие дела / Takie dela
(Russian only)
Information portal dedicated to social justice issues and news analysis.
Бумага / Paper
(In Russian)
St. Petersburg-specific portal of news and opinions.

Prozhito / Lived experience
Lived Experience (Prozhito), a web project by the Russian historians Mikhail Mel'nichenko, Il'ia Veniavkin, and the programmer Ivan Drapkin, is a searchable Russian language database of hundreds digitized diaries, authored by both well known and "ordinary" Soviet citizens.
МеdiaZona
MediaZona is a Russian alternative media outlet focused on the judicial, law enforcement and penal system in Russia.

Communal living in Russia
A virtual museum of the "kommunalka", a communal apartment and communal, and of the concept of communal living in the Soviet Union, is a project by Ilya Utekhin (European University, St. Petersburg, Russia).
Birthmarks on the Map / Родинки на карте
This site, rich in photographic materials, chronicles the everyday life of ordinary Russian citizens outside of capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The project started in Siberia, but now embraces the provinces all over Russia.
GULAG
The organisation Gulag.cz is concerned with the phenomenon of the Gulag prison system and the Soviet totalitarian regime in general. Founded at the end of 2009 by Czech scholars, its mission is to share and circulate information about the Soviet Gulag and everything connected with it, including its links to Czechoslovakia and other countries. The site is available in Czech, English and Russian.
Virtual Museum of the Gulag
The database of the Virtual Museum of the Gulag constitutes a collection of material testimonies to the era of the Soviet terror. These testimonies are scattered through multiple museums and collections and also include "non-museum objects": ruins of camps and structures, monuments and memorial signs. The Virtual Museum of the Gulag is a project of the Research and Information Centre "Memorial" (St Petersburg). Available in English, Russian and German.