WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDE
Women of Russia: A Portrait Gallery - History 301
Checking out the Wellesley College Library home page --- Under the Research Resources column you will be using --- Catalog Search, Databases A-Z, & Research Resources by Subject (the History & Russian subject pages will be of special interest to this class). On the right, under the Special Tools & Topics heading, there is a Citation Style Guide, as well as tips for doing a successful paper in our the Research Survival Kit. We will also spend a good deal of time with our new tracking service --- Find It! @ Wellesley.
Book titles for background information:
Between the Fields & the Ciy: Women, Work, & Family in Russia, 1861-1914 - Clapp Lib Call #HQ1662 .E54 1994.
Collapse of Communism / by the correspondents of the NY Times; edited by B. Gwertzman & M. T. Kaufman - Clapp Lib Call #HX44 .C6415 1990.
Dictionary of the Russian Revolution - Clapp Ref Call #DK265 .D49 1989.
Encyclopedia of Russian History: from the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-Up of the USSR - Clapp Ref Call #DK36 .P39 1993.
Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar /edited & translated from the Russian by B. A. Engel & C. N. Rosenthal - Knapp Reserve & Clapp - Call #HN530.Z9 R328 1975.
Great Terror; Stalin's Purge of the Thirties - Clapp Lib Call #DK267 .C65.
Petrashevtsy: A Sudy of the Russian Revolutionaries of 1848 - Clapp Lib Call #DK211 .S43 1985.
Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema / edited by Anna Lawton - Clapp Lib Call #PN1993.5.R9 R4 1992.
Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia /edited by Toby W. Clyman & Judith Vowles - Clapp Reserve - Call #DK37.2 .R87 1996.
Stalin, the Great Purge, & Russian History: A New Look at the "New Class" / Marshall Shatz - Clapp Lib Call #qDK267.3 1984 .S53.
Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe / Gale Stokes - Clapp Lib Call #DJK50 .S75 1993.
Women & Gender in 18th Century Russia - Clapp Lib Call #HQ1662 .W56 2003.
Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age / Catherine A. Schuler - Clapp Lib Call #PN2727 .S38 1996.
World War II & the Soviet People / edited by John & Carol Garrard - Clapp Lib Call #D764 .W67 1990.
To find books not at Wellesley College:
Use WorldCat WC(via FirstSearch) to find books, articles, and other materials not here at Wellesley. If these titles are not part of our collection, you can request the materials via Interlibrary Loan or the Virtual Catalog (from the ILL page). NExpress is another delivery resource, and you are encouraged to request via this form since delivery is faster than the other two options.
To locate scholarly & non-scholarly articles in other databases, try:
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) WC [1991 +] has abstracts from working papers, policy briefs, books & journal titles dealing with international affairs.
Facts on File World News Digest WC [1940 +] contains news digests written contemporary to the time by Facts on File news editors. It also contains full-text historical documents, election results, and selected editorials.
Historical Abstracts WC [1954 +] has articles dealing with world history since 1450.
Infotrac Onefile WC [1980 +] has scholarly & popular articles in every discipline.
JSTOR WC [articles are taken from the first issues of journals but not the latest 5 years] are full-text articles from a collection of humanities, social & natural science journals.
LexisNexis Academic News WC [most articles date from the 1980s +] has domestic and international news articles.
MLA Bibliography WC [1963 +] has articles on literature, lingusitics, film, folklore.
New York Times WC [1851-2003] provides pdf versions, plus graphics, of full-text articles from the Times.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Services) WC [1915 +] features articles about political, social, economic issues, and public affairs.
Project Muse WC [most recent 5 years] has articles from academic articles in the humanities and social sciences.
Sociological Abstracts WC ['63 +] has articles on all aspects of sociology and other social science topics.
Wilson Web WC [1994 +] has articles from Social Abstracts, Humanities & Social Science Retrostpective, plus Humanities & Social Science Full Text.
If you have further questions on this material or would like to have a one-on-one session, please feel free to contact me.
Jacqueline B. Fitzpatrick x3497
Research & Instruction Specialist
jfitzpat@wellesley.edu
April 7, 2003; Revised on November 10, 2006