History:

European History:

Russia and Eastern Europe

Archives, Libraries, and Museums Associations, Organizations, and Institutes Background Biographical Resources Books and Journal Articles Discussion Lists Internet Guides

Journals Maps Newspapers Pictorial Resources Primary Sources Statistical Resources

European History:

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-1 027.0025 A673

• 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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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

• Kennnan Institute (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

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

• 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-1 947.003 C17

• Center for Russian Studies' Database (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  Chronology of events, political information, biographies, infomration 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-1 947 G786

• Cuvalo, Ante. Historical Dictionary of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
  HUNT REF-1 949.742 C99H

• Diller, Daniel C., ed. Russia and the Independent States. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 947 D57R

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

• Florinsky, Michael T., eds. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russian and the Soviet Union. New York: McGraw-Hill [1961].
  HUNT REF-1 947.003 M14

• Frucht, Richard C. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
  HUNT REF-1 947.0003 E56

• Heenan, Patrick and Monique Lamontagne, eds. The CIS Handbook. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.
  HUNT REF-1 338.947 C579

• History of Moscow (Anton Lagutin and Serge Shokarev)

• Langer, Lawrence N. Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
  HUNT REF-1 947.003 L27H

• Marxist Internet Archive

• McCauley, Martin. The Longman Companion to Russia Since 1914. New York: Longman, 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 947 M123L

• Olson, James S., ed. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  HUNT REF-1 305.800947 E84

• Paxton, John. Companion to Russian History. New York: Facts on File Publications, c1983.
  HUNT REF-1 947.003 P34C

• 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-1 947.003 P34E

• Raymond, Boris and Paul Duffy. Historical Dictionary of Russia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 947.003 R26B

• 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-1 947.084 B632

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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-1 920.047 W628A

• 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-1 920.047 I59W

• 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-1 909.82 C6882 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-1 920.047 L66S

• McCauley, Martin, ed. Longman Biographical Directory of Decision-makers in Russia and the Successor States. Harlow: Longman, c1993.
  HUNT REF-1 920.047 L856

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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
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  Continued by:
  American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
  Print: 1967-1994
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  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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Discussion Lists

• H-EarlySlavic

• H-Russia

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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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Journals

Below are some major journals in Russian and Eastern European History. To find journal articles on particular topics use the resources at European History: Russia and Eastern Europe: Books and Journal Articles or European History: Books and Journal Articles. If you need help locating particular journals, please ask at the Hunt reference desk. The journals listed at European History: Journals, may be of interest, too.

• American Slavic and East European Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. 4, 1945-v. 1961.
  Print: v.7, 1948-v. 20, 1961.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues Slavonic and East European Review. American Series (see below).
  Continued by Slavic Review (see below).

• Central European History
  Print: v. 1, 1968-present.
  HUNT JOUR-3

• Current Politics and Economics of Russia
  Print: v.2, no.2-v.10, 1991-98.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues Current Politics of the Soviet Union (see below); Continued by Current Politics and Economics of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe (see below)

• Current Politics and Economics of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe
  Print: v.11, 1998-present.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues Current Politics and Economics of Russia (see above).

• Current Politics of the Soviet Union
  Print: v.1, 1990- v.2, 1991.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continued by Current Politics and Economics of Russia. (see above).

• Europe-Asia Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full-text: v. 45, 1993-ca. v.50, 1998. Continues Soviet Studies (see below).

• Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. 3, 2002-present.

• Russian Review
  Full text: v. 57, 1998-present.
  Available: Russian Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. 1, 1944-v. 55, 1996.
  Available: Russian Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Print: v.1, 1941-v. 45, 1986; v.54, 1994-present.
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• Slavonic and East European Review.
  v.23, 1945-present.
  HUNT JOUR-3

• Slavonic and East European Review. American Series (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: Vols. 2, 1943-3, 1944
  Continued by American Slavic and East European Review (see above)

• Slavic Review (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full Text: Vols. 20, 1961-v. 57, 1998.
  Print: v. 20, 1963-present.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues American Slavic and East European Review (see above)

• Slavonic Year-Book. American Series (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v. Vol. 1, 1941.
  Continued by Slavonic and East European Review. American Series (see above).

• Soviet Studies (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: v.1, 1949- v.44, 1992.
  Continued by Europe-Asia Studies (see above).

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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].
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• Channon, John. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Viking, 1995.
  HUNT REF-1 947 C45P

• Chew, Allen F. An Atlas of Russian History; Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
  HUNT REF-1 911.47 C52A2

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

• Historic Cities: Belarus, Czech, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine (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-1 911.47 H95PA

• 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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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. Examples of papers relevant to Russia and Eastern Europe include: The Ukrainian Times, The Moscow Times, Moscow News, Russian Press Digest, Prague Tribune, and the Prague Post.

• Maichel, Karol, comp. Soviet and Russian Newspapers at the Hoover Institution: a Catalog. [Stanford, Calif.: the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, 1966.
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• 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-2 016.057 U58H

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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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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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Statistical Resources

See also European History: Statistical Resources.

• Clarke, Roger A. Soviet Economic Facts, 1917-1970. [London]: Macmillan [1972].
  HUNT REF-1 330.947 C599S

• Russia & Eurasia Facts & Figures Annual. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1993-present.
  Print: v. 18, 1993-present.
  HUNT REF-1 314.7 U112
  Continues USSR Facts & Figures Annual (see below).

• Shoup, Paul. The East European and Soviet Data Handbook: Political, Social, and Developmental Indicators, 1945-1975. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
  HUNT REF-1 314.7 S55E

• USSR Facts & Figures Annual. [Gulf Breeze, FL]: Academic International Press, 1977-1992.
  Print: v. 1, 1977-v. 17, 1992
  HUNT REF-1 314.7 U11
  Continued by Russia & Eurasia Facts & Figures Annual (see above).

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