Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera
The collection "Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera" provides an extensive pool of primary source material on elections and political movements in the countries of the former Soviet Union The databases include party programmes, propaganda material etc. produced by political parties or candidates from 2010 to 2018.
Licensing was carried out in cooperation with the specialised information service Eastern, Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe. This means that the entire collection is available for research in Germany. It also includes regions that are not part of our collection focus. This gives political scientists a complete overview of political developments in the former Soviet states.
The service is available free of charge throughout Germany and at German institutes abroad via the national licence system. Individual documents can be downloaded in their original layout as PDF files or in other formats.
Members of a university can usually use an existing institutional login. This procedure enables easy access at German universities, research institutions and academic libraries without a special login. If your computer is not located in the campus area of your home institution, you should enquire locally about other access options (e.g. local login via VPN).
Interested parties without access via a home institution can register for a private accountif you have your permanent residence in Germany. Once you have registered, you will receive your personal access data by post shortly afterwards.