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European History:

Russia and Eastern Europe

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Archives, Libraries, and Museums

For additional resources, see European History: Archives, Libraries, and Museums

• Archives in Russia (ArcheoBiblioBase)

• Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, ed. Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. 2 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c2000.
  HUNT REF-1 CD1710 .A76 2000

• Libraries on the Web: Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe (Libweb, Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)

• Repositories of Primary Sources: Russia (University of Idaho)

• Russian/Commonwealth of Independent States Collection (Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University)

• WWW Virtual Library: Museums: Museums in Russia

• Russian Archives Online (PBS)

• The State Russian Museum

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Associations, Organizations, and Institutes

For additional resources, see European History: Associations, Organizations, and Institutes.

• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

• British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

• Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) (University of Michigan)

• Davis Center for Russian Studies (Harvard University)

• The Harriman Institute

• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• WWW Virtual Library: Russian History Index: Institutions and Societies

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Background

Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic. Below are some materials that can provide background on Russian and Eastern European history. For additional resources, see European History: Background. If you need help finding information, please ask at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• Alexander Palace Time Machine (Alexander Palace Association)
  Biographies, floor plans, maps, images, letters and diaries, articles, documents, etc.

• Brown, Archie, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  HUNT REF-1 DK14 .C35 1982

• Center for Russian Studies' Database (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  Chronology of events, political information, biographies, information on ethnic groups, institutions and administrative units, etc.

• Chronology of Russian History (Bucknell University)

• Conte, Francis. Great Dates in Russian and Soviet History. New York: Facts on File, c1994.
  HUNT REF-1 DK36 .G74 1994

• Cuvalo, Ante. Historical Dictionary of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
  HUNT REF-1 DR1675.5 .C88 1997

• Diller, Daniel C., ed. Russia and the Independent States. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 DK293 .D55 1993

• Face of Russia (PBS)
  Timeline, biographies, maps, interviews, etc.

• Florinsky, Michael T., eds. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russian and the Soviet Union. New York: McGraw-Hill [1961].
  HUNT REF-1 DK14 .M26

• Frucht, Richard C. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
  HUNT REF-1 DJK6 .E53 2000

• Heenan, Patrick and Monique Lamontagne, eds. The CIS Handbook. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.
  HUNT REF-1 HC336.27 .C58 1999

• History of Moscow (Anton Lagutin and Serge Shokarev)

• Langer, Lawrence N. Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
  HUNT REF-1 DK71 .L32 2002

• Marxist Internet Archive

• McCauley, Martin. The Longman Companion to Russia Since 1914. New York: Longman, 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 DK266 .M353 1998

• Millar, James R., ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003.
  HUNT REF-1 DK14 .E53 2003

• Olson, James S., ed. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  HUNT REF-1 DK33 .E837 1994

• Paxton, John. Companion to Russian History. New York: Facts on File Publications, c1983.
  HUNT REF-1 DK36 .P39 1983

• Paxton, John. Encyclopedia of Russian History: From the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-up of the U.S.S.R. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 DK36 .P39 1993

• Raymond, Boris and Paul Duffy. Historical Dictionary of Russia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 DK36 .R39 1998

• Red Files (PBS)
  Images, background, interview transcripts, quotations, biography, maps, etc. for Secret Victories of the KGB, Soviet Sports Wars, Secret Soviet Moon Mission, and Soviet Propaganda.

• Russia, 1860-1945 (Spartacus Educational)

• Shukman, Harold, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. New York: B. Blackwell, 1988.
  HUNT REF-1 DK265 .B54 1988

• Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, Karen Evans-Romaine and Helena Goscilo, eds. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. London: Routledge, 2007.
  HUNT REF-1 DK510.32 .E53 2007

• The Territories of the Russian Federation 2004. London: Europa, 2004.
  HUNT REF-1 JN6699.A88 T47 2004

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Biographical Resources

See also European History: Biographical Resources

• Geron, Leonard and Alex Pravda. Who's Who in Russia and the New States. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1993.
  HUNT REF-1 CT1203 .W47 1993

• Institut zur Erforschung der USSR. Who Was Who in the USSR; A Biographic Directory Containing 5,015 Biographies of Prominent Soviet Historical Personalities. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
  HUNT REF-1 CT1212 .I57

• Leaders and Other Important Figures in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and the Third World. Vol 2 of The Cold War, 1945-1991. Edited by Benjamin Frankel. Detroit: Gale Research, c1992.
  HUNT REF-1 D839.5 .C65 1992 vol 2

• Lewytzkyj, Borys. The Soviet Political Elite: Brief Biographies, Indices and Tables on 989 Members and Candidate Members of the CPSU Central Committee from 1912 to 1969, Together with an Overall Analysis [by] Borys Levytsky. [Stanford, Calif.]: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, c1970.
  HUNT REF-1 DK275.A1 L38

• McCauley, Martin, ed. Longman Biographical Directory of Decision-makers in Russia and the Successor States. Harlow: Longman, c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 DK37 .L66 1993

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Books and Journal Articles

Below are resources specifically for Russia and Eastern Europe. See European History: Books and Journal Articles for essential resources on any aspect of European history.

• American Bibliography of Russian and East European Studies
  Print: 1961-1966
  HUNT REF-1
  Continued by:
  American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
  Print: 1967-1994
  HUNT REF-1
  Originally included scholarly material published in English outside of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Beginning in 1970, it focused on North American publications, defined as either published in North American or written by North Americans.

• Sullivan, Helen F. and Robert H. Burger. Russia and the Former Soviet Union: a Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1994. (Carnegie Mellon users only)

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Discussion Lists

• H-EarlySlavic

• H-Russia

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Internet Guides

See also European History: Internet Guides.

• Russian and Eastern European Studies Virtual Library (University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh)

• Russian History (Bucknell University)

• Slavic & East European Collections: Selected Internet Resources (Tatjana Lorkovic, Yale University Library)

• WWW-VL History Central Catalogue:
  • Russian History Index

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Maps

See also European History: Maps.

• Adams, Arthur E., Ian M. Matley, and William O.McCagg. An Atlas of Russian and East European History. New York: Praeger [1967, c1966].
  HUNT REF-1 G2111.S1 A2 1967

• Channon, John. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Viking, 1995.
  HUNT REF-1 DK38 .C4 1995

• Chew, Allen F. An Atlas of Russian History; Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
  HUNT REF-1 G2111 .S1 C5 1970

• Historical Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Republics (The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin)

• Historic Cities: Belarus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia (Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)

• Historic Cities: Russia (Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)

• Hupchick, Dennis P. and Harold E. Cox. Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  HUNT REF-1 G2081.S1 H8 2001

• Russia and the Former Soviet Republics: Historical Maps (The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin)

• Russian Empire - Europe (Federation of East European Family History Societies)

• Russian Empire-Siberia and Russian Asia (Federation of East European Family History Societies)

• WWW Virtual Library: Russian History Index: Maps

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Newspapers

See also European History: Newspapers.

• Annual Index to the Current Digest of the Soviet Press
  Print: v. 28, 1976- v. 46, 1994.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Hillman Library Hillman Journals (4th Fl.1960+; Gr. Fl. pre-1960)

• CRL's CIS Serials database. (Center for Research Libraries)
  Search by a variety of ways the current serial titles from the Russian Federation and former Soviet Republics received at the Center for Research Libraries that are available for borrowing.

• Current Digest of the Soviet Press
  Print: v. 1, 1949-v. 43, 1992.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Hillman Journals (4th Fl.1960+; Gr. Fl. pre-1960)
  Indexed by Annual Index to the Current Digest of the Soviet Press (see above); continued by:
  Current Digest of the Post Soviet Press
  Print: v. 44, 1992-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Hillman Journals (4th Fl.1960+;)
  Has quarterly indexes covering 13 weekly issues and annual cumulative index.

• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Menshevik Collection of Newspapers, Periodicals, Pamphlets and Books Related to the Menshevik Movement: Reel Index. [Stanford, Calif.: The Institution, 1967].
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Microforms (Ground Floor) DK262 .S785

• Lexis Nexis Academic (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Search and display full text or abstracts of European newspapers ca. 1990-present. Once connected, select News, then World News category, then European News Sources. Some full text Russia and Eastern Europe included are: The Ukrainian Times (1997-present), The Moscow Times (1993-present), Moscow News (1992-present), Russian Press Digest (1990-present), Prague Tribune (1998-present), and The Prague Post (1994-present).

• Maichel, Karol, comp. Soviet and Russian Newspapers at the Hoover Institution: a Catalog. [Stanford, Calif.: the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, 1966.
  HUNT REF-1 Z6945 .S7983

• Pravda
  Print: 1918-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY Microforms (Ground Floor)
  Current issues in periodicals until microform copy received.

• Smits, Rudolf, comp. Half a Century of Soviet Serials, 1917-1968; a Bibliography and Union List of Serials Published in the USSR. 2 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1968.
  HUNT OVRSZQ-2 Z6956.R9 S58

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Pictorial Resources

See also European History: Pictorial Resources.

• Political Posters from the Soviet Ukraine (BRAMA, Inc)

• Russian Empire, 1895-1910: Photographs from Stereoscopic Negatives in the Keystone-Mast Collection (California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside)

• Russian Empire in Photographs (All-photo)

• Siberian Digital Photo Collection (Library, University of California, Berkeley)

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Primary Resources

See also European History: Primary Resources.

• Constitution of the Russian Federation (Foreign Investment Promotion Center, Russian Federation Ministry of Economy)
  In English

• Documents in Russian History: An Online Sourcebook (Russian and East European Studies Program, Seton Hall University)

• Marxist Internet Archive

• Russian Historical Texts in English (John Slatter, University of Durham)

• Soviet Archives at Info-Russ (collected by Vladimir Bukovsky, prepared for electronic publishing by Julia Zaks and Leonid Chernikhov)
  All presented document copies are in Russian, document titles are presented in Russian and English. The Russian document files are in PDF-format and require an Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Russia and Eastern Europe:

Statistical Resources

See also European History: Statistical Resources.

• Clarke, Roger A. Soviet Economic Facts, 1917-1970. [London]: Macmillan [1972].
  HUNT REF-1 HC335 .C518 1972b

• New World Demographics, L.C. The First Demographic Portraits of Russia, 1951-1990. Shady Side, Md.: New World Demographics, L.C., c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 HA1450.12 .F57 1993

• Russia & Eurasia Facts & Figures Annual. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1993-present.
  Print: v. 18, 1993-present.
  HUNT REF-1 HA1446 .U17
  Continues:
  USSR Facts & Figures Annual [Gulf Breeze, FL]: Academic International Press, 1977-1992.
  Print: v. 1, 1977-v. 17, 1992
  HUNT REF-1 HA1446 .U17

• Shoup, Paul. The East European and Soviet Data Handbook: Political, Social, and Developmental Indicators, 1945-1975. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
  HUNT REF-1 HA1446 .S53

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