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Soviet Cinema Online - Periodicals and Newspapers 1918-1942

Soviet Cinema Online: Periodicals and Newspapers, 1918-1942 The collection includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the most interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian Film

Provider: Brill
Updated: Nov 3, 2020 10:57am

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Translations of the Peking Gazette Online

Translations of the Peking Gazette Online is a full-text, searchable database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China's long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912. The collection is comprised of several publications, including: Peking Gazette, Indo-Chinese Gleaner, Canton Register, Chinese Repository, and the North China Herald. 

Provider: Brill
Updated: Nov 1, 2017 4:36pm

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U.S. Intelligence on Asia

U.S. Intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991, is a online collection providing students and researchers with declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991). Particular emphasis on: China, North Korea, and North Vietnam, but also covers: Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. The resource is comprised of 4,281 documents across 25,000 pages. 

Provider: Brill
Updated: Nov 2, 2017 1:30pm

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Primary Source Collection

Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Top Secret History of America's Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Warfare Programs and Their Deployment Overseas, is an online collection containing over 2,600 formerly classified U.S. government documents, many of them classified as Top Secret or higher. The collection covers the period from the end of World War II to the present day and includes unpublished reports, memoranda, cables, intelligence briefs, classified articles, PowerPoint presentations, military manuals and directives.

The collection content was brought together from the U.S. National Archives, ten U.S. presidential libraries, the NATO Archives in Brussels, the National Archives of the UK, the National Archives of Canada, and the National Archives of the...

Provider: Brill
Updated: Nov 2, 2017 5:05pm

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