RUSSIAN HISTORY
LIBRARY RESOURCES

Archives

Archives of Russia: a directory and bibliographic guide to holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg / edited by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted.  English-language ed.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c2000. 2 v.
CD1711 .A7513 2000

Arkhivy Rossii: Moskva i Sankt-Peterburg: spravochnik-obozrenie i bibliograficheskii ukazatel'.  Moskva: "Arkheograficheskii t sentr', 1997.  1070 p.
CD1711 .A75 1997

Russian library treasures: an index of national & academic libraries / [compiler], Tatiana Kostaki; editor, C.J. Barnes.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, c1998.  176 p.
Z819 .A1 K67 2000

The Study of Russian history from British archival sources / edited by Janet M. Hartley.  London: Mansell, 1986.  184 p.
DK3 .S88 1986

Working with Russian archival documents: a guide to modern handwriting, document forms, language patterns, and other related topics / Olga E. Glagoleva.  Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1998.
CD1711 .G57 1998

Atlas

Atlas of Russian history / Martin Gilbert.  2nd ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  161 p.
G2111 .S1 M35 1993

The Dent atlas of Russian history / Martin Gilbert.  2nd ed.  London: J.M. Dent, 1993.  161 p.
G2111 .S1 G53 1993

Historical atlas of Central Europe / Paul Robert Magocsi.  Rev. and expanded ed.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.  218 p.
DJK11 .M34 1993

Imperial Russian history atlas / Martin Gilbert; cartographic consultant, Arthur Banks.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
G2111 .S1 G54 1978

The Penguin historical atlas of Russia / John Channon with Robert Hudson.  London: Viking, 1995.  144 p.
DK38 .C43 1995

The Routledge atlas of Russian history / Martin Gilbert.  3rd ed.  London: Routledge, 2002.
G2111 .S1 G53 2002

Soviet history atlas / Martin Gilbert; cartographic consultant Arthur Banks.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
G2111 .S1 G55 1979

Guides

Guide to the collections in the Hoover Institution archives relating to Imperial Russia, the Russian revolutions and civil war, and the first emigration / compiled by Carol A. Leadenham.  Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1986.  208 p. (Hoover Press biographical series; 68).
DK17 .H638 1986

A Scholars' guide to humanities and social sciences in the Soviet Union: the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the academics of the Union republics / American Council of Learned Societies-Soviet Academy of Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1985.  310 p.
AS262 .S78 S23 1985

Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C. for Central and East European studies: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany (FRG & GDR), Greece (Ancient & Modern), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Yugoslavia / Kenneth J. Dillon.  Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 1980.  329 p.
DJK9 .D54 1980

Bibliography

Bibliographic guide to Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian studies.  New York, NY: G.K. Hall, c1995-
DJK9 .B52

Bibliographic guide to Soviet and East European Studies. New York: G.K. Hall, 1978-1993.  16 v.
DJK9 .B52 1988

Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its predecessors and successors / by Bradley L. Schaffner.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.  (Scarecrow area bibliographies; no.5)
DK17 .S33 1995

Church and state in postwar eastern Europe: a bibliographical survey  / compiled by Paul Mojzes.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.  109 p. (Bibliographies and indexes in religious studies; no. 11)
BR738.6 .M64 1987

Dictionary catalog of the Slavonic collection.  The New York Public Library.  2nd ed., rev. and enl. Boston: Hall, 1974.  26 v.
DJK9 .B522 1974

Eastern Europe, a resource guide: a selected bibliography on social sciences and humanities  / by Suzanne D. Gyeszly.  San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1994.
DJK9 .G94 1994

Eighteenth century Russia: a select bibliography of works published since 1955  / Philip Clendenning, Roger Bartlett.  Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1981.  (Russian bibliography series; 2)
DK127 .C52 1981

The Gorbachev bibliography, 1985-1991: a listing of books and articles in English on Perestroika in the USSR  / compiled and edited by Joseph L. Wieczynski.  New York: Norman Ross Pub., c1996
DK286 .W54 1996

Gorbachev's reforms: an annotated bibliography of Soviet writings  / John M. Battle, Thomas D. Sherlock.  Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1988-
HC336.26 .B38 1988

Literature and art of avant-garde Russia (1890-1930): bibliographical index  / Aleksander Ocheretiansky.  Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1989.  (Russian bibliography series; 7)
Z2504 .A74 O24 1989

The 1968 Czechoslovak crisis: a bibliography, 1969-1970 / Michael Parrish. SL. SN, 1971.
DB215.6 .P35 1971

Official publications of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-1980: a select annotated bibliography / edited by Gregory Walker.  London: Mansell, 1982. 620 p.
J397 .H15 O32 1982

Origins, evolution, and nature of the Cold War: an annotated bibliographic guide / J.L. Black. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1986.  173 p.
E183.8 .S65 B53 1986

Reinterpreting Russia: an annotated bibliography of books on Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, 1991-1996 / Steve D. Boilard.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1997. 283 p.
DK17 .B63 1997

The Rise and fall of the Soviet Union: a selected bibliography of sources in English / edited by Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992. 430 p.
DK266 .R57 1992

Russia and Eastern Europe, 1789-1985: a bibliographical guide / compiled by Raymond Pearson.  Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1989.  210 p.
DJK38 .P42 1989

Russian autocrats from Ivan the Great to the fall of the Romanov dynasty: an annotated bibliography of English language sources to 1985 / by David R. Egan and Melinda A. Egan.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987.  512 p.
DK100 .E32 1987

The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921: a bibliographic guide to works in English / Murray Frame. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 1995.  308 p.
DK265 .F73 1995

Siberia and the Soviet Far East / David N. Collins, compiler.  Oxford: Clio Press, 1991. 217 p.
DK753 .C64 1991

Sino-Soviet conflict: a historical bibliography. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1985.  190 p. (ABC-Clio research guides; 13).
DS740.4 .S55 1985

Slavic studies: a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks / edited by Murlin Croucher.  Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1993. 2 v.
DJK27 .C76 1993

The Soviet air and strategic rocket forces, 1939-1980: a guide to sources in English / Myron J. Smith, Jr.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1981.  321 p. (War/peace bibliography series; no. 10).
UG635 .R9 S556 1981

The Soviet Army, 1939-1980: a guide to sources in English / Myron J. Smith, Jr. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, c1982.  551 p. (War/peace bibliography series; no. 11).
UA772 .S53 1982

Soviet foreign policy, 1918-1945: a guide to research and research materials / compiled and edited by Robert H. Johnston.  Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1991.  236 p. (Guides to European diplomatic history research and research materials).
DK266 .J65 1991

The Soviet Navy, 1941-1978: a guide to sources in English / Myron J. Smith, Jr. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1980.  211 p. (War/peace bibliography series; no. 9).
VA573 .S64 1980

Soviet prisons and concentration camps: an annotated bibliography, 1917-1980 / Libushe Zorin. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1980.  118 p. (Russian bibliography series; 3).
HV9712 .Z67 1980

The U.S.S.R. in World War II: an annotated bibliography of books published in the Soviet Union, 1945-1975: with an addenda for the years 1975-1980 / Michael Parrish.  New York: Garland, 1981.  2 v.  (Garland reference library of social science; v.75).
D764 .P35 1981

Biography

Biographical dictionary of dissidents in the Soviet Union, 1956-1975 / compiled and edited by S.P. de Boer; E.J. Driessen, and H.L. Verhaar.  The Hague ; Boston: M. Nijoff ; Hingham, MA: Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, c1982. 679 p.
DK275 .A1 B56 1982

A Biographical dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988 / by Jeanne Vronskaya with Vladimir Chuguev.  London: Saur, 1989. 525 p.
CT1213 .V76 1989

Joseph Stalin: a biographical companion / Helen Rappaport.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, c1999.  472 p.
DK268 .S8 R37 1999

The Soviet Union: a biographical dictionary / edited by Archie Brown.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.  489 p.
DK37 .S68 1990

Who was who in the USSR: a biographic directory containing 5,015 biographies of prominent soviet historical personalities / compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USR, Munich, Germany; edited by Heinrich E. Schulz, Paul K. Urban, Andrew I. Lebe.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972.  677 p.
CT1212 .I56 1972

Who's who in Russia and the CIS Republics / Vladimir Morozov.  1st ed.  New York: Henry Holt, c1995.  328 p.
CT1203 .W56 1995

Who's who in Russia since 1990 / Martin McCauley.  London: Routledge, 1997.  268 p.
CT1203 M37 1997

Who's who in socialist countries: a biographical encyclopedia of 10,000 leading personalities in 16 communist countries / compiled and edited by Borys Lewytzkyj and Juliusz Stroynowski.  Munchen: Saur, 1978.  736 p.
CT1213 .L48 1978

Who's who in the Soviet Union: a biographical encyclopedia of 5,000 leading personalities in the Soviet Union / edited by Borys Lewytzkyj.  Munchen: Saur, 1984.  428 p.
DK37 .W48 1984

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

The Blackwell encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution / edited by Harold Shukman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.  418 p.
DK265 .B54 1988

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union / edited by Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith; consultant editor John E. Bowlt; associate editor Patricia Brown.  2nd ed.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.  604 p.
DK14 .C34 1994

Companion to Russian history / John Paxton.  London: Batsford, 1984, c1983.  503 p.
DK36 .P39 1983

Dictionary of Russian historical terms from the eleventh century to 1917.   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.  199 p.
DK36 .P87 1970

Dictionary of the Russian Revolution.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.  704 p.
DK265 .D49 1989

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism / edited by Richard Frucht.  New York: Garland Pub., 2000.  958 p. (Garland reference library of social science; v.751)
DJK6 .E53 2000

Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic myth and legend / Mike Dixon-Kennedy.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, c1998.  375 p. 
BL930 .D58 1998

• covers the myths and legends of the Russian Empire at its greatest extent as well as other Slavic people and countries.  Includes historical geographical, and biographical background information.

• revised edition of: Companion to Russian history. 1983.

Encyclopedia of Russian women's movements.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.  399 p.
HQ1665.15 .E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 520 p.
DJK28 .R87 E53 2002

The Gorbachev encyclopedia: Gorbachev, the man and his times; Mikhail Gorbachev, March 11, 1985-December 25, 1991. Salt Lake City, UT.: C. Schlacks, Jr. c1993.  437 p.
DK286 .G67 1993

Great Soviet encyclopedia.  New York: Macmillan, 1973-. 
AE55 .B6413 1973

Historical dictionary of Russia.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.  411 p. (European historical dictionaries; no. 26) 
DK36 .R39 1998

Key facts in Soviet history / Stephen de Mowbray.  London: Pinter, 1990.
DK40 .D46 1990

The Longman companion to America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1941-1998.  2nd ed. London: Longman, 1999. 309 p.
D840 .Y68 1999

The Longman companion to Imperial Russia.  New York: Longman, 2000.  517 p. (Longman companions to history).
DK113 .L66 2000

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.  624 p.
DK14 .M26 1961

The Modern encyclopedia of religions in Russia and the Soviet Union.  Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1988-.
BL980 .S65 M62 1988

The Modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history.  Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1976-. (Academic international reference series)
DK14 .M6 1976

The Newly independent states of Eurasia: handbook of former Soviet Republics.  Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1993.  205 p.
DK17 .B37 1993

Political and economic encyclopaedia of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.  Harlow, England: Longman, 1990. 328 p.
DJK50 .P64 1990

Political parties of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the successor states / edited by Bogdan Szajkowski.  New York: Stockton Press, 1994.  735 p.
DJK51 .P65 1994

The Soviet and East European political dictionary.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1984.  367 p. (Clio dictionaries in political science; 4)
DJK6 .M16 1984

The Territories of the Russian Federation. London: Europa Publications, Ltd., c1999.  286 p.
DK293 .T47 1999

Sources

The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918: documents and materials / by James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher.  Stanford: Stanford University, 1934.  735 p.
DK265 .B84 1934

British documents on foreign affairs -- reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War.  Series A, Russia, 1859-1914. [Frederick, Md.]: University Publications of America, 1983.  6 v.
JX632 .B7473 1983

British documents on foreign affairs -- reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, from the First to the Second World War.  Series A, the Soviet Union, 1917-1939. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, c1984-.  17 v.
JX632 .B7475 1984

Documents of Russian history, 1914-1917 / translated by Emanuel Aronsberg.  Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1964, c1927.  663 p.
DK251 .G64 1927

The Emergence of the modern Russian state, 1855-81  / by Martin McCauley and Peter Waldron.  Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1988.  218 p.
DK219 .M163 1988

Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918: documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry / edited by Z.A.B. Zeman.  London: Oxford University Press, 1958.  157 p.
DK265 .A522

Imperial Russia: a source book, 1700-1917 / edited by Basil Dmytryshyn.  Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1999.  558 p.
DK3 .D59 1999

Reinterpreting Russian history: readings, 860-1860's / compiled and edited by Daniel H. Kaiser, Gary Marker.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.  445 p.
DK3 .R45 1994

The Russian civil war: documents from the Soviet archives / edited by V.P. Butt.  England: Macmillan Publishers, 1996.  217 p.
DK265 .A5372 1996

A Source book for Russian history from early times to 1917 / George Vernadsky.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972.  3 v.
DK3 .V45 1972    

Soviet foreign policy, 1928-1934: documents and material / by Xenia Joukoff Eudin and Robert M. Slusser.  2 v.
DK63 .E82 1966

The Trotsky papers, 1917-1922 / edited and annotated by Jan M. Meijer.  The Hague: Mouton, 1964-. 
DK254 .T6 A28 1964

Voices of revolution, 1917.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, c2001. 404 p.
DK265 .A544 S84 2001

Article Indexes

ABSEES Online.  Stanford, Calif. : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1967-
DR10 .A52

• ABSEES Online is the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies, 1967-
• excellent source for journal articles, books, reviews, dissertations, selected government publications.

Academic Search Premier [electronic resource].  Ispwich, Mass. : EBSCOhost.
Z6944 .S3 INTERNET

• provides full text for over 2,810 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. 

Historical abstracts [electronic resource].  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1998-
D299 INTERNET

• excellent source for articles and reviews.

Humanities abstracts [electronic resource].  New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1997-
AI3 INTERNET

• a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, dance, drama and film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Abstracting coverage begins Mar. 1994 and indexing coverage begins 1984.

PAIS international [electronic resource].  [Norwood, Mass.:]: SilverPlatter International.

• Indexes journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world. Areas covered include the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.

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