HIS226: 20th Century Russian History

Library Catalog

The best subject heading to search for recent books is "Russia (Federation)" Also, "Russia History 20th Century" is useful. Doing a keyword search by your topic is anotheerr suggested approach, espepcially when combined with the term "Russia" or "Russian" (e.g., religion and Russia).

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Russia

Ref. DK 14 .C35 1994

Encyclopedia of Russian History 4 vols.

Ref. DK 14 .E53 2003

Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History

64 vols. - so far!

Ref. DK 14 .M6

Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution

Ref. DK 265 .B54 1988

Russia and the Independent States

Ref. DK 293 .D552 1993

Russia and Eurasia Documents Annual - 1992 to the present

an excellent source for primary material: speeches, reports, articles

Ref. DK 293 .R97

Abstracts and Indexes (Periodical Articles)

Historical Abstracts

Indexing for scholarly journals dealing with world history. Most citations include brief abstracts of the articles. Publications extend back to 1954. Subject coverage is from 1450 to the present.

Humanities Full Text

Indexing for scholarly journals, from 1983 to the present; contains abstracts and some full-text material. The major history journals are included.

JStor

Full-text articles from over 600 scholarly journals. Coverage varies; recent years are not included.

Project Muse

Full-text articles from almost 250 scholarly journals. Coverage varies; usually from 1995 or 1996 to the present.

WorldCat

Over 50 million records of many types from libraries around the world.

Major Journals

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

Continues: Current Digest of the Soviet Press
V. 44 - (1993 -) Bound
V. 53 - (2001 -) online at publisher
publisher

Current Digest of the Soviet Press

Continued by: Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
V. 14-43 (1962-19992) Bound

Europe-Asia Studies

Continues: Soviet Studies
V. 45 - (1993 -) Bound
V. 45 - (1993 - 4 years ago) online at JStor
JStor
V. 51 - (1999 - ) online at Ingenta
Ingenta

European History Quarterly

V. 16 - (1986 -) Bound

Journal of European Studies

V. 15 - (1985 -) Bound

Russian History / Histoire Russe

V. 17 - (1990 -) Bound

Russian Review

V.1-27 (1941-68) Bound
V.28-60 (1969-2001) on Microfilm
V. 61 - (2002 -) Bound for latest 10 years only
V. 1 - (1941 -) to 6 years ago available at JStor
JStor
Current 2 years online from the publisher
Russian Review

Slavic and East European Journal

V. 20-40 (1976-1996) Microfilm
V. 41 - (1997 -) Bound
V. 1 - (1957 - 4 years ago) online at JStor
JStor

Slavic Review

V.1-60 (1941-2001) Microfilm
V. 61 - (2002 -) Bound for latest 10 years only
V. 4-20 (1945-1961) online at JStor
JStor
V. 20 - ((1961 - 2 years ago) online at JStor
JStor

Slavonic and East European Review

V. 42-45, 47 - (1963 -) Bound
V. 79 - (2001 -) online at Ingenta
Ingenta

Soviet Review

V. 1-21 (1960-1980) Bound
V. 22-32 (1981-1991) on Microfilm

Soviet Studies

continued by Europe-Asia Studies V. 1-41 (1949-1989) on Microfilm
V. 42-44 (1990-1992) Bound

Internet Resources

Internet sites can be helpful but evaluate them critically. See:

Russia Subject Index (Columbia University)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/HI/russia.html

Russia Today (Middlebury College)

http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/RT/frameindex/frame.shtml

REES Web (University of Pittsburgh)

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

Yahoo Directory of Russia Web Sites

http://www.dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Russia/

Google

http://www.google.com

You can always do an advanced Google search on "Russia" and your area of interest, limiting to English and .edu domain.