Research Resources for Russian & Russian Studies

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American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies. Clapp Ref Z2483 .A65 (1956-1992).

Britannica Online ^WC has broad encyclopedic coverage, plus articles and weblinks.

Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia edited by Peter J. Stavrakis et al. Clapp Library JN6693.5.R43 B49 1997.

Dictionary of Russian Women Writers edited by Marina Ledkovsky et al. Clapp Ref PG 2997 .D53 1994.

Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature edited by Catriona Kelly et al. Clapp Library PG3017 .D5 1989.

Early Modern Russian Writers, Late 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol. 150, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Clapp Ref PG2991.2 .E2 1995.

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, & Security ^WC is an electronic title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library, edited by K. Lee & Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. [It] "provides a comprehensive, subject specific guide to the history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security." Look for references to Russia and the Cold War years.

Encyclopedia of Russian History ^WC is an electronic resource, providing a comprehensive look at the people, politics, economics, culture, & social systems of Russia. The four volumes cover the earliest beginnings, up to czarist Russia & then the Soviet Union.

Epic of Russian Literature, from Its Origins Through Tolstoy by Marc Slonim. Clapp Library PG2951 .S5 (1950).

Modern Encyclopedia of Russian & Soviet History, Vol. 1 (1976), Supp. Vols. 1 & 2 (1996), Vols. 47-59 (1988-1995). Clapp Ref DK14 .M6.

Modern Encyclopedia of Russian & Soviet Literature, Vols. 1-7. Clapp Ref PG2940 .M6 (1977-1984).

Modern Russian Literature, from Chekhov to the Present by Marc Slonim. Clapp Library PG3011 .S538 (1953).

Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World ^WC is an Oxford Reference Online title by Editor-in-Chief, Joel Krieger. This latest edition "reassesses the core themes of the previous edition and adds new articles on the people, concepts, and events that have shaped the world since 1993."

Plays [Teatr: V Chetrekh Tomakh (V Dvukh Knigakh) by M. A. Kuzmin. Clapp Library PG3467 .K93 A19 1994.

Reference Guide to Russian Literature edited by Neil Cornwell. Clapp Ref PG2940 .R44 1998.

Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1986-1991 by Helen F. Sullivan. Clapp Ref Z2491 .S89 1994.

Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology by Marc Raeff for The Harbrace Series in Russian Area Studies. Clapp Library DK32.7 .R3 (1966).

Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender, and Customary Law, edited by Marjorie M. Balzer. Clapp Lib DK510.32 .R87 1992.

Women and Writing in Russia and the USSR: A Bibliography of English-Language Sources by Diane M. Nemec Ignashev and Sarah Krive. Clapp Ref Z2503.5 .W6 N45 1992.

Women in Russia and the Soviet Union: An Annotated Bibliography by Rochelle G. Ruthchild. Clapp Ref Z7964 .S68 R88 1993.

Russian and Slavic dictionaries can be found in the Clapp Ref area PG2271 through 2693.

Find articles and essays

Academic Search Premier  ^WC The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title

ArticleFirst ^WC has articles &/or abstracts in all scholarly fields, as well as popular culture (1990 +).

Biography Resource Center ^WC includes information about people from any era. The articles date from 1984 on.

Ethnic NewsWatch ^WC Full text of newspaper articles from ethnic, minority and native presses. Coverage is from 1991 onward.

GenderWatch ^WC Full-text articles on women's social, religious, political, and health issues. Coverage is from 1974 onward.

Historical Abstracts ^WC is a database containing articles on world history since 1450, excluding the U.S. & Canada (1954 +).

Infotrac Onefile ^WC Great starting point for scholarly and popular articles in every discipline, 1980 to present

JSTOR ^WC A collection of humanities and social science journals, among others, from the first issues but not the latest 5 years.

LexisNexis Academic News ^WC is another full-text source containing news, business, legal, medical, and current events articles.(Yrs. can vary - 1980s +).

Literature Resource Center  ^WC Biographies, bibliographies and full-text critical analysis of authors from all genres and eras, including the contents of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Map resources at Wellesley.

MLA International Bibliography ^WC is a database with information on articles in literature, linguistics, film, and folklore. The citations date from 1963 on.

National Journal ^WC is a weekly publication featuring articles on politics, policy, and government (1977+).

NewsAbs ^WC is a database of abstracts from regional and national newspaper articles (1989 +).

New York Times Online ^WC is a ProQuest historical product with exact replicas of the newspaper, in PDF format & graphics (1851-2001).

Periodicals Index Online ^WC (formerly Periodicals Contents Index/PCI) is an index to articles published in over 4,500 periodicals, in as many as 40 languages, and covering topics in the humanities and social sciences.

Project Muse ^WC is a full-text database with academic journals in the social sciences and the humanities. Titles such as the Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, SAIS Review, & World Politics are especially good sources for topics dealing with Russia and international relations (latest 5 yrs.).

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Internet links

CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991 was published in 2001 by the Center for the Study of Intelligence.

Slavic & East European Library: Russian Resources The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign site provides numerous Internet URLs covering Russian resources in a number of categories (business & economics, culture, citionaries, language & literature, government & law, etc.).

SovInformBureau - Click on the word "Russify Everything " on the left of the opening screen. Instructions are provided on how to make your software work with cyrillic characters.

Transliteration site:

School of Russia & Asian Studies: Study Resources/The Library "Everything & anything about Russia & Eurasia." Lists cyrillic computer sites and language resources with a Russian keyboard.

Literature

Fundamental Digital Library: Russian Literature and Folklore, known by the acronym FEB-web, has both English and Russian versions of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Alexander Griboyedov so far, as well as ancient literary works. There are, also, several encyclopedias for philological research. It has been noted by academics for its thoroughness and accuracy.

Cultural Resources

Russia Phototrack and All Periods of History by Pictures (U Toronto)

Super Russian Websites, maintained by Jim Becker of the University of Northern Iowa, has resources that will help the user learn about Russia, the Russian language, and culture.

News Sources

Johnson's Russia List is a digest, edited by David Johnson, of daily Russia-related articles from the Russian & non-Russian press. Diverse viewpoints are presented, and the Archives covers the years from 1997-2004.

RFE/RL Newsline (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)

Russia Today and Central Europe Online (EINNEWS.com)

Friends and Partners News: Linking US-Russia Across the Internet

General Sources

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library The Australian National Library site.

REESWEB: World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies

Maps

Early Maps of Russia from the James Ford Bell Library/University of Minnesota collection.

Russia and Former Soviet Republics Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library/U. Texas at Austin. Most maps are political; several maps portray ethnic concentrations.

Economics

Dept. of Commerce BISNIS Business information service for the Newly Independent States.

Politics

Russia News.Net provides the day's headlines and a number of news links dealing with Russian politics, sports, travel, weather, and an Event Calendar.

Contact the departmental Library liaison

For help with your research or to schedule a library research session for your class, contact Jacqueline B. Fitzpatrick, library research liaison to Russian and Russian Area Studies.

To acquire particular resources, contact Pamela Bristah, library collections liaison to Russian and Russian Area Studies.

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Russian Department

Russian Area Studies Program

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• Date created: March 21, 2001
• Date Modified: February 8, 2008
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