This documentary might help paint a picture even if it’s not your main source of statistics and such: The Human Face of Russia (1984) - society and everyday life in the 1980s USSR
The filmmakers are from Australia and they go to various places in the Soviet Union asking people about typical quality of life questions like price of rent, bus fare, work, having a look at farms, etc.
I recommend this 2016 documentary called Donbass by Anne-Laure Bonnel for some background on the issue
I think most communists would agree that libraries are a good resource.
As a side note, there can also be libraries of things other than books and media, like toy libraries (so parents aren’t pressured to buy tons of toys but kids can still borrow and play with different toys), tool libraries (so people in a community don’t have to all individually buy tools that they might only use occasionally), home appliance libraries, electronics, musical instruments, etc.
These services are more marginal under capitalism because they’re not for profit. Under capitalism, big libraries of items which can easily be borrowed for free is not a welcome idea for capitalists seeking to profit of off false scarcity of their products, and its harder to maintain non profit services like this. In a communist society, there wouldn’t really be a reason to hinder the expansion and enhancement of libraries to make them even better resources for the public.
Donbass (2016) - War documentary by Anne-Laure Bonnel. (TankieTube, Internet Archive) - A French director goes to Donbas region, showing the state of things as it is being bombed, interviewing people in bomb shelters, hospitals, on the street, etc. CW: Graphic scenes, deaths/injuries shown.
Articles/videos by Geopolitical Economy Report. He has several articles/videos worth checking out, but I’ll just list two:
“West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections” - “… starting in 2017, representatives of Western governments and corporations quietly held annual conferences in which they discussed ways to profit from the civil war they were fueling in Ukraine. In these meetings, Western political and business leaders outlined a series of aggressive right-wing reforms they hoped to impose on Ukraine, including widespread privatization of state-owned industries and deregulation of the economy.”
“CBS censors its own report on Ukraine weapons corruption” - “Under Ukrainian government pressure, CBS News censored its own documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which showed that just around 30% of the weapons Western governments have sent actually go to the frontlines, with widespread corruption and black markets.”
“The Nulands: A family business of perpetual war” - Article about the role of Victoria Nuland and husband Robert Kagan within the military-industrial complex as well as going into detail on Nuland’s career and involvement in Ukraine. “Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia – and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.”
On Reinhard Gehlen, the CIA, and NATO: “The CIA’s Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis” - "The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. … Bolted lock, stock, and barrel into the CIA, Gehlen’s Nazi-infested spy apparatus functioned as America’s secret eyes and ears in central Europe. The Org would go on to play a major role within NATO, supplying two-thirds of raw intelligence on the Warsaw Pact countries. Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service until he retired in 1968, Gehlen exerted considerable influence on U.S. policy toward the Soviet bloc. "
“U.S. Built NATO By Putting Nazi War Criminals in Charge” - Not a bourgeois source as this is on the page of a communist party, but it’s basically just a list of several Nazis who got positions in NATO.