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World of Children: Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 Online

Digital source collection on the Soviet pioneer camp Artek in the Crimea

World of Children: Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 Online
 

Content

World of Children - Artek Pioneer Camp Archives, 1944-1967 Online contains digitised records of the pioneer camp Artek in the Crimea. This camp opened in 1925 and was the model project of Soviet recreational opportunities for children and young people. These camps were exemplary for the attempts, measures and failures of the Soviet regime to create a "Homo Sovieticus" from childhood on.

The digital copies (no searchable full texts) from the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) allow evaluating:

• Medical reports,
• Pioneer diaries and letters,
• Song collections,
• Event schedules,
• Film recommendations,
• Radio reports, etc.

The collection provides diverse access to the history of everyday life and mentality, to Soviet child, youth and social policies as well as to the histories of gender and tourism in the Soviet Union.

Access information

The offer is available free of charge throughout Germany and at German institutes abroad via the system of national licenses. At academic libraries and research institutions, users can access it without any special registration. Interested persons without access via a home institution may register for private access if they have their permanent residence in Germany. Please follow the individual registration steps at https://www.nationallizenzen.de/ind_inform_registration. Once you have registered, you will receive your personal access data by post.

Germany-wide access is made possible within the framework of the Specialised Information Service for Russian, East and Southeast European Studies  at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).