Digitized Archival Materials

Selected materials from the FSO archive have been and are being digitized as part of joint projects with other archival or research institutions. The following digitized materials can be freely viewed on different research portals and collaborative platforms:

Digitized samizdat journals from the FSO archive

In cooperation with the University of Toronto, selected samizdat periodicals, primarily artistic-literary samizdat from the Soviet Union, were digitized and published for the online portal "Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat" established by Prof. Ann Komaromi. View all issues of the samizdat journals.
 

Digitized egodocuments from the FSO archive

As part of the pilot project for the digitization of ego documents of the so called Information Service for East, Central and Southern.East Europe (State Library Munich, Germany), writings and photographs from archival holdings of the  FSO archive were published on the osmikon research platform. The individual documents are listed here with a direct link for viewing:

• Döring, Karl-Hermann, pocket calendars from the years 1937-1943

• Kopelev, Lev, Konspekty o yazykovedeniy i fonetike

• Kopelev, Lev, Konspekty po istorii yazykov mira i ėtimologyi

• Letters of ethnic German Soviet citizens to the German Consulate in Kiev from the estate of Ernst Kundt

• Schröder, Helmuth, Photo album from the years 1914-1920

• Schröder, Helmuth, My diary 1914-1920 as a prisoner of war 

• Sporoń, Henryk F. /Grzybowski, Andrzej, Moje internowanie

• Trinkewitz, Karel, Letní Haiku

• Trinkewitz, Karel, Literární dotazník

• Trinkewitz, Karel, Haibun o cestě do dětství

• Original negatives by photographer Ivan Kyncl from the series "+":
  Folder 1.1, Folder 1.2 and Folder 1.4