Initiated by an independent researcher in Eastern European political history, this project preserves and contextualizes declassified state records, provincial council resolutions, and underground samizdat publications across the Soviet sphere.
The work rejects institutional patronage and political sponsorship to maintain uncompromised critical independence, indexing state decrees alongside demographic tallies without partisan editorial softening.
Standards of verification
Every transcription in this repository originates from verifiable physical holdings: state archives in Berlin, Warsaw, and post-Soviet regional vaults. Where state records conflict with local witness testimony, discrepancies are preserved and annotated rather than reconciled through speculation.
We refuse sensationalist shock value and apologetic revisionism equally. Ideological doctrine produced concrete physical consequences across millions of lives, and historical fidelity demands disciplined citation of decrees, regional harvest tallies, and penal sentences.
Archival correspondence
Historians, translators, and families holding verifiable documents, regional correspondence, or municipal records from the period are encouraged to submit citations or inquiries for inclusion.