Russian & Soviet

Russian TV Broadcasts

Consisting of broadcasts recorded from Russian television between 1992 and 2005, this is a collection of videos covering a broad range of topics and formats, in particular news, documentaries, talk-shows and interviews with notable Russians.

Digital National Security Archive

The Digital National Security Archive contains more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical United States policy decisions. There are 29 complete collections, each offering specialized insights, for example: “Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962”; “Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962”; and “Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991”, which is a document set of more than 600 U.S. intelligence estimates and assessments concerning the Soviet Union during the entire period of the Cold War.

Declassified Documents Reference System--US Government Documents Archive

The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified United States government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more. A wide range of documents is devoted to the Soviet Union, selected Soviet republics, and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. Highlights include U.S.

Kaplan-Beeby Records

Research files, interview transcripts, drafts of manuscript of the publication Moscow Despatches inside Cold War Russia, by John Watkins; edited and with an introduction by Dean Beeby and William Kaplan (Toronto: Lorimer, 1987). The publication includes selections from official despatches written while Watkins was ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Glass (Irvine Israel) Records

Irvine Israel Glass (1918-1994) obtained his B.Sc. (1947) and M.Sc. (1948) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Toronto.  In 1950, he obtained his Ph.D. from the newly formed Institute of Aerophysics at the University of Toronto.  He served in this Institute until his retirement in 1983, and thereafter he worked as Professor Emeritus.  Glass made major contributions to gasdynamics research and shock-wave phenomena.