You might find the following internet resources to be of interest. Rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive list, I have suggested general sites that will serve as springboards to other resources. Of course, there are also specific resources that speak to my own primary interest in Russia, especially the indigenous minorities of Siberia! Internet resources are arranged according to the following scheme:
I. General History Resources
II. Russia and the Former Soviet Union
A. General Information
B. Russian and Former Soviet Regions and Peoples
1. General Resources
2. Siberia and its Peoples
3. Other Peoples and Regions of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
III. Mongolia
IV. Indigenous Peoples
V. Libraries
VI . Museums
A. Cleveland Museums
B. Other Museums
I. General History Resources
- American Historical Association
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- Hanover Historical Texts Project
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
- Library of Congress Country Studies
- Ohio Historical Society
- World History Association
- WWW Virtual Library: History (see also the linked regional studies page)
II. Russia and the Former Soviet Union
A. General Information
- Indiana University Russian & East European Institute
- Interfax News Agency
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty NewsLine
- Russia Phototrack
- Russian & East European Network Information Center (University of Texas at Austin)
- Russian Life Magazine
- Slavic Research Center (Hokkaido University)
- Soviet Archives (Library of Congress)
B. Russian and Former Soviet Regions and Peoples
1. General Resources
- Minority Languages of Russia on the Net
- Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Centre for Russian Studies
- Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- Soyuz: The Research Network for Post-Communist Cultural Studies
2. Siberia and its Peoples
- Buryat Home Page
- Friends of Tuva
- Koryak Net
- L'auravetl'an Indigenous Information Center (peoples of Siberia and the Russian North)
- Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON)
- Siberia: Culture, Economy, Business
- Trans-Siberian Railway (Official Site of the Russian National Tourist Office)
3. Other Peoples and Regions of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
- Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
- EurasiaNet (Caucasus and Central Asia)
- Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University
- Ukrainian Institute of America
- Virtual Guide to Belarus (Belorussia)
- Infosystem Mongolei
- Mongolia Online
- Mongolia Society (Indiana University)
- Ancient Indus Valley (Harappa and other ancient Indian civilizations)
- Korea Institute (Harvard University)
- Center for Southeast Asian Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
- Islamic and Middle East Links (Prof. Indira Gesink, B-W Dept. of History)
- J-Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
- Tibet Online
- Turkic Republics and Communities
IV. Indigenous Peoples
- Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (Winnipeg)
- Arctic Circle (University of Connecticut)
- Arctic Studies Center (Smithsonian Institution)
- Cultural Survival
- Foundation for Endangered Languages
- GeoNative (Basque and English)
- Maison des cultures du monde (indigenous music CDs; site in French and English)
- Native Web
- Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge)
- Turtle Island Native Network
- Summer Institute of Linguistics (valuable field work on indigenous languages)
- UNESCO (includes programs and resources relevant to indigenous affairs)
- Ritter Library (Baldwin-Wallace College)
- Cleveland Public Library
- Ohiolink (search other Ohio college libraries)
- Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Akron-Summit County Public Library
- Geauga County Public Library
- Lakewood Public Library
- Medina County District Library
- Portage County District Library
- Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
- Westlake Public Library
- Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library
- Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
- Library of Congress
- New York Public Library
- Russian State Library (Formerly Lenin Library)
VI. Museums
A. Cleveland Museums
- Akron Art Museum
- American Museum of Natural History (New York)
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh)
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh)
- Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.)
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- Cincinnati Museum Center (history and natural history museum)
- Detroit Historical Museum
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis)
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)
- Fort Sumter National Monument (Charleston, S.C.)
- Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, MA)
- Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- McCord Museum of Canadian History (Montreal)
- Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal)
- Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
- Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal)
- Oriental Institute (Chicago)
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (Cambridge, MA)
- Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg)
- Smithsonian Institution (all museums)
- Toledo Museum of Art
275 Eastland Rd.