Open List database of victims of USSR political repression now online

Reach Out, a charitable foundation, has launched its Open List project: an online database with information on victims of political repressions carried out in the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia.

The database contains information on victims of political repression starting from the 1917 revolution up until the collapse of the USSR.

The founders of the Open List project say the database is drawn from information on “victims of political terror in the USSR” gathered by Russian historical and civil rights society Memorial.

The Reach Out foundation aims for the database “to supplement and clarify the existing data on the history of Soviet political repression and to give everyone the opportunity to take part. All the authors of the Open List have the ability to edit and add new information to the database.”

The Open List database website was inaccessible for unclear reasons at the time of this writing.