Slavic Studies

The purpose of the Imperia Project is to promote the study of Russia's spatial history. To that end it aims to 1) make available a range of historical maps, databases related to demographics, cultural institutions, and economy, 2) assist instructors in bringing interactive engagement with maps and geographical information into the history classroom, 3) encourage conversation among researchers, instructors and students interested in the spatial history of the empire."

In Russian

Page descriptions are in English, but text is in Russian and French or Polish. Click on each page description for map and magnifying glass.

In order to view individual maps, please click on "Оглавление" underneath the image of the book cover. Also includes maps of principle cities, and topical maps (climate, ethnographic, rail and post roads, etc.) In Russian.

The collection includes more than 600 maps, which can be found by entering
Krawciw Map Collection in the search box of the Harvard Hollis catalog

From "Materīaly po istorīi russkoĭ kartografīi" by Veniamin Kordt

A collection of vintage infographics from Soviet era Russia. Based around what appears to be industrial activities, they seem to be highlighting the growth.

Demoscope and the HSE have prepared longitudinal files containing all years of data from 1994-2017, both for the individual data (adults and children) and for the household data. Each observation is an individual or a household with all variables available for that year. The variable values have been standardized across years. Individual and household identifiers are available on each observation so that researchers can examine changes over time.

International statistics for production, trade, etc.

Russian and English interfaces.

Includes Baltics, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Each survey uses a questionnaire with innovative indicators specially
relevant in transition societies: support for democracy and undemocratic
alternatives; corruption; attitudes to enlarging Europe; coping with a
multiplicity of economies, monetized and non-monetized; relative affluence
and destitution; and demographics: age, education, gender, urban/rural
residence, etc

Database of historical statistics on the social and economic development of Russia over the last two centuries developed by the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), the New Economic School (Moscow), and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society (Moscow). The database contains a selection of basic indicators of social and economic development within seven broad topics for five historical cross-sections, subdivided into twenty-six subtopics. Data are provided for individual regions according to the administrative-territorial division of the Russian state for each cross-section. Not all indicators are available (yet) for all cross-sections.

Graph, map and compare more than 1,000 time series indicators from the World Development Indicators.

Data sets from 2003 on social, political, and economic issues across the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Fill out form to download.

Includes survey data for Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine