Libraries & textsLive
Diószegi Vilmos — «Sámánok nyomában Szibéria földjén» [In the footsteps of Shamans in the land of Siberia] (MEK, 1998)
Field notes from Hungarian expeditions in 1957–58 regarding Buryat shamans.
Late socialist Buryat modernity
1958–1989
Late socialism created mass education, cities, literature and research institutions while also intensifying language shift, central dependence and separation between Buryat territories.
Verified evidence
This period does not yet carry a source-verified claim. Sources: see the historical collection
Sources & materials
14 catalog entriesPeriod tags: Late Soviet period
Archives & genealogyLive
Pamyat Naroda [Memory of the People]
A portal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation containing search records of WWII participants (units, awards, burial sites, combat operation maps)—a source for Buryat military biographies and casualties; reference level, not a partner objective.
ResearchPartial access
Bělka — "Mandala a dějiny: Bidija D. Dandaron" [Mandala and history: Bidija D. Dandaron] (2014)
The first Czech translation of a chapter from the "Black Notebook" by Buryat Buddhist thinker Bidija Dandaron.
ResearchLive
Dissertations by Melissa Chakars and Joseph Long on the Buryats
The dissertations "Being Buryat: Soviet Modernization in Siberia" (Chakars) and "Negotiating Belonging: Ritual, Performance and Buriat National Culture in Pribaikal'e" (Long)—bibliographically important, but stable open full-text access is not confirmed; recorded in the catalogue as catalogue-only.
ResearchLive
Melissa Chakars — "The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia" (CEU Press, 2014)
An open monograph on collectivisation, urbanisation, education, literature, and institutions in Soviet Buryatia—a useful counterweight to narratives focused exclusively on repression.
ResearchLive
Persée, cahier 12 (1981) — «Recherches à l'Institut bouriate» [Research at the Buryat Institute]
French translations of works by Buryat scholars on folklore and the cult of Ovoo—a rare bridge between Soviet Buryat science and the Francophone academy.
ResearchLive
Roberte Hamayon — «Quelques chants bouriates» (Persée, 1975) [Some Buryat songs]
Publication of field recordings of Buryat songs from the Tunka Valley, 1974—an early work by Hamayon prior to her main CREM-CNRS corpus.
ResearchLive
Sayana Namsaraeva & Vitaly Tsytsykov — "Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War"
An open (OA PDF) article on Buryat soldiers of the Korean War and the memory of it—a rare free English-language source on the late Soviet period.
Mongolia & East AsiaLive
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia (MIASU)
Over 600 interviews regarding 20th-century Mongolia (Cambridge MIASU project) — not exclusively Buryat, but vital context for Buryat migration and Mongolian memory of the borderlands.
Oral, visual & mapsLive
CREM-CNRS — «Chants et musiques bouriates» (1974) collection
47 archival units of Buryat wedding, feast, and lullaby songs, including the yohor.
Oral, visual & mapsLive
CREM-CNRS — Corpus of personal field notes by Roberte Hamayon (1967–1974)
~19 hours of ethnomusicological field recordings from 1967–1974 (Mongolia/Buryatia/Yakutia) — a unique audio corpus without analogues.
Oral, visual & mapsLive
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The largest open portal of historical maps, featuring maps of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR/Buryat ASSR and broader Siberia — the best live cartographic resource for the aggregator's 'Maps/Visuals' section.
Oral, visual & mapsLive
GeoPortOst
A specialised portal of the Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (Leibniz-IOS) containing over 3,000 digitised and georectified historical maps of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe from the 19th–20th centuries, including Soviet administrative transformations and transport corridors.
Media, Buddhism & communityLive
Pismo Folkowe — «Buriaci»
A Polish essay on the Buryats, featuring a description of the rare cassette «Pieśni Szamanek z Buriacji» [Songs of Shamanesses from Buryatia] (1994).