The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

URL: http://avalon.law.yale.edu

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document."

Soviet Archives at Info-Russ

URL: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/buk.html

"Ideology and Politics of Soviet Communist Party (KPSS); Ideology and Propaganda; Media: newspapers, radio, TV; Cultural events, science, economy; Internal Affairs; KPSS and Terror in the USSR; Prior to 1975; 1975 - 1991; Suppression of Dissisdents; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; after 1980; Sakharov; Solzhenitsyn; Use of Psychiatry for Political Purpose; Perestroika; KPSS and Communist World; KPSS and Non-Communist World; Communist Terror in the World; Europe, North America; Asia; Africa; Central and South America; KPSS and Peace Propaganda; Some Aspects of Soviet International Politics; USA; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Poland; Olympic Games, 1980; Chronological List of All Documents with section cross-references (in Russian)"

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

"How are historians to remedy the silence about women in many traditional accounts of history? This question has received a number of distinct answers.

The first solution was to locate the great women of the past, following the lead of much popular historiography that focuses on "great men". The problem here is that just as the "great men" approach to history sidelines and ignores the lives of the mass of people, focusing on great women merely replicates the exclusionary historical approaches of the past.

The next solution was to examine and expose the history of oppression of women. This approach had the merit of addressing the life histories of the mass of women, but, since it has proved to be possible to find some degree of oppression everywhere, it tended to make women merely subjects of forces that they could not control. On the other hand, historians' focus on oppression revealed that investigating the structures of women's lives was crucial.