We present to the attention of readers the first scientific publication of thematically diverse anecdotes that circulated in the USSR from 1917 to 1991. The index is a systematic collection of records of Soviet jokes. The publication includes materials from the press, emigrant collections, reports on the mood of the population, denunciations, court cases, records of amateur folklorists, diaries of contemporaries and other sources. There are a total of 5852 articles in the Index, each of which is devoted to one anecdotal story. The theory of the genre, the peculiarities of the existence of jokes in the USSR are explored, the history of borrowings of Soviet political jokes in emigrant and post-perestroika publications is traced, and the reliability of the recordings of jokes in sources of various types is analyzed. The publication is equipped with name and subject indexes.