World War II: The Soviet Experience

http://www.vor.ru/55/index.html Voice of Russia (Russian radio station) special on World War II. It includes many different primary source photos and posters

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture10.html Lecture about totalitarianism

http://killeenroos.com/link/war.htm Over 400 links dealing with World War II

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Index/picindexmapsi.html World War II maps with maps of Caucasus Oil fields

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/warwwiisoviets/index.htm?terms=World+War+II+and+Russia Links to sites about Russian women in World War II

http://www.shortway.to/1941/ Russian History during World War II

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono3.html Chronology of Russian History with links to primary and secondary sources

http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/history-e.html Links to sites dealing with Stalin and World War II

http://www.geocities.com/dboals.geo/russia.html One of the best overall websites for social science teachers. This is the section dealing with Russia

http://www.serpukhov.su/dima/war/eng/eindex.htm Site about the Battle of Moscow with links to other Soviet battles. (This is a personal website) It is also linked to other battle sites about the war. This is written by a Russian. The English is not always translated clearly

http://www.teacheroz.com/wwii.htm World War II links to primary and secondary links created by a teacher. The same teacher has created a length list of Russian links, which are categorized at http://www.teacheroz.com/russia.htm

http://artiom.home.mindspring.com/ww2/ww2.htm personal site on the eastern front

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/worldwarii/index.htm Index of sites from About.com regarding World War II

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/josephstalin/ Links to Joseph Stalin information

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/interview/holloway04.html Interview with David Holloway about Stalin’s goal to develop a nuclear bomb

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/index.html Race for the Superbomb from PBS

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/39warlord.html Lecture about Stalin and WWII

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/40hitlerinvasion.html Lecture about the invasion of Russia

http://www.magma.ca/~nebogato/victory.htm Canadian Russian Embassy site describing The Great Patriotic Was with links to photos

http://history.vif2.ru/atwar/index.html Memories of Russian soldiers about WWII (in English)

http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/ The falsification of photographs during the Stalinist period

Stalingrad

http://users.pandora.be/stalingrad/ Battle for Stalingrad

http://www.stalingrad.com.ru/history/history.htm History of the Battle of Stalingrad

http://www.stalingrad.com.ru/hill/mother/mother.htm

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/staling.htm The History Channel site on the Battle for Stalingrad. Includes the telegrams between Hitler and Paulus

http://www.stalingrad.com.ru/hill/plan.htm Virtual Tour of Mamayev Hill at Stalingrad

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa072699.htm Information about the Soviet-Nazi non aggression pact

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/josephstalin/ Links to Joseph Stalin information

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/stalingrad/index.htm Numerous links about the Battle of Stalingrad

Lesson Plans

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/ Lesson plan about Soviet-American relations during World War II from the Journal of American History

http://www.proteacher.com/090075.shtml A selection of lesson plans dealing with World War II

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/homefront/ British Public Records archive interactive activity about World War II

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/heroesvillains/stalin/default.htm An interactive activity about the industrialization of the USSR and Stalin’s role

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/coldwar/main.htm Cold War activity which includes information about World War II

http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/warwldhc.html#ww2 Activities and web links for a variety of World War II sites. It includes links to posters from several countries.

http://www.whistlestop.org/qq/rk_7.htm Political Cartoon lesson based on the Potsdam Conference from the Truman Library

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/worldwar2.htm A large collection of links and lesson plans dealing with World War II

Primary Sources

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Modern History Source Book contains links to primary sources from throughout the world http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook45.html deals with World War II.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941molotov.html Molotov’s speech on the invasion of the USSR by Germany

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hs1000.html#hegend An entire World History course based on primary sources with links to those sources

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm Yale’s Avalon Project site has a collection of primary sources dealing with WW II.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm Mt Holyoke collection of World War II primary and secondary sources divided by year. This includes Stalin’s first address to the country after the invasion on July 3, 1941.

http://history.hanover.edu/etexts.html#modern Links to historical primary sources on line

http://worldwar2.smu.edu/ Historic World War Ii document archive from SMU

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/410703a.html Stalin’s broadcast after the Soviet invasion

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/nazsov.htm Nazi-Soviet relations prior to the invasion of the USSR

http://www.primenet.com/%7Ebyoder/artofnz.htm Nazi and Soviet Posters and art from the WWII period

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html Russian archives dealing with US/USSR relations during World War II as well as other documents from the Soviet era

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/english/memories/stories.html Stories from the 1940’s by people from various parts of the World Affairs Council

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm Catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Warfilm.html#wwII List and descriptions of World War II films

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/index.html World War II document collection

http://www.magma.ca/~nebogato/war_foto_list.htm Soviet World War II photos with descriptions from the Russian Embassy in Canada

http://history.vif2.ru/atwar/finkelshteyn/boi.htm Use with Stalin’s and Molotov’s speeches

Posters

http://www.ngart.com/posters/PosterNav.htm Collection of World war II Posters

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~akotov1/propaganda.html Small, but good collection of Soviet war posters

http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/posters1.html Posters from the Great Patriotic War with translations

http://www.brama.com/art/poster.html Ukrainian and Soviet war posters

http://www.earthstation1.com/Russian_Propaganda_Posters.html Soviet war posters with references to the invasion by Napoleon. Click on a poster to see a larger view.

http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/posters1.html Soviet World War II posters

http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm Links to Posters from Soviet Periods

http://www.sweb.cz/posters/listy/russ6.htm or http://www.poster.s.cz/ Numerous posters from throughout the 20th Century

http://www.brama.com/art/poster.html Small collection of Ukrainian Posters

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4102/page4.html Handful of Soviet Posters

http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/courses/147/propart/propart.htm Gregory Friedian’s examples of Soviet posters and art

http://www.raketa.f2s.com/pics/index.cgi?direct=Soviet_Posters Large Collection of Soviet Posters, may be made larger to print

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/ Northwestern Library’s collection of 300 American World War II posters

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9854/gpw.htm Another collection of Soviet WWII posters