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Access to Russian Archives is an online database containing descriptions of approximately 80,000 archival fonds (record groups) from more than 20 guidebooks on Russian federal archives and 40 regional archives published from 1987 to 2004. Both printed and handwritten guides are available in digital formats, providing the most comprehensive access to the holdings of the entire Russian archive system in one simple, user-friendly electronic format.
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Covers "...major sections of the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic information system for archival repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained in Moscow under the direction of Patricia Kennedy Grimsted with cooperation from the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv--before March 2004, Federal Archival Service of Russia) and the State Public Historical Library (GPIB). The present information, presented in English by the …
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Contains nearly a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
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Electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related. More texts are available in the Armenian and Russian sections of the library.
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Balkanalysis.com is one of the leading independent news and analysis groups on the Balkans today, online since 2003 and utilizing a growing corps of writers and researchers from regional countries as well as from elsewhere in Europe and the United States. At present, our coverage focuses primarily on Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Kosovo, though other countries and supranational topics are covered too.
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The homepage of the Polish National Library in Warsaw. Provides free access to their online catalog and Polish periodical databases.
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Provides a global perspective on Central Asia studies, and to provide a key point of access to highly dispersed resources in this field. It seeks to provide basic information which is useful to both "beginners" and "experts", encompassing all fields of the social sciences and humanities wherever in the world people engage in such study.
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Provides graphic display of geographic data (down to the raion and city levels) on population and labor, social services, business, industry and agriculture, investments, transportation and communication, trade, finances and prices for the Russian Federation and other countries of Central Eurasia. Dates of coverage for the Russian Federation range from 1996 to 1998, and will soon be updated through 2000, including electoral data from …
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Details CRL's uncataloged collections and lists significant sets related to Eastern Europe, including microfilm of newspapers, Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs and political relations of Poland, the Balkans States, and Yugoslavia. Also contains microfilm of press summaries in English from 1963 to June, 1972 (Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia)
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Holdings include: Microfilm catalog (reels 1-322) of Eighteenth century Russian publications (Svodnyi Katalog Russkoi Knigi Grazhdanskoi Pechati XVIII Veka 1725-1800); an extensive collection (serials and monographs) of publications of the Russian Academy of Sciences from its founding in 1723 to 1956; these include serials and monographs; and positive microfilm set of all the titles listed in the Zernova bibliography (Zernova, A. S. Knigi …
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Finding aids on microfiche for Archives and manuscript collections in the USSR; Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to commercial relations between the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union, 1910-1949; Documents of the Russian parliament from 1906-1917. The microfilm also contains an index; British Parliamentary Papers on the Russian Empire, 1854-1899; microfiche of titles in the humanities and social sciences deposited in the …
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This selective English-language bibliography is based mainly on materials published in the United States. The main source for the selection of the monographs was the Library of Congress computerized catalog. Periodical articles were selected from ca. 70 periodicals, most of them published in America.
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The Digital Library of Slovenia is a web portal providing ready access to knowledge and cultural treasures. It offers free searching of text, visual and sound resources, which means that you can read, watch and listen to the resources.
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Digital editions of the older Serbian newspapers:
Politika (1904-1941); Zenit (1921-1926); Novine srbske (iz carstvujusćeg grada Viene (1813-1821); Novine Čitališta beogradskog (1847-1848); Vila (1865-1868); Javor (1862-1863);
Danica (1860-1872); Sedmica (1852-1858); Matica (1865-1870);
Neven (1884-1914); Beogradske ilustrovane novine (1866); Orao (1875-1902); Srpska zora (1876-1881); Srpske ilustovane novine (1881-1882)
Novi …
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The Current Bibliography, published annually within Dostoevsky Studies, was first compiled under the editorship of Martin Rice (1971-1985), followed by June Pachuta Farris (1986-current). It attempts to be the most complete and up-to-date international bibliography of recent Dostoevsky research published, and to be as nearly inclusive as possible of all material published from 1970 through the current year. However, with some exceptions, book …
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Established in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance, Dziennik Zwiazkowy continues to be published today as the Polish Daily News. This database includes the first ten years (1908-1917) of publication, which represent local, national and international issues of utmost concern to the Polish community of Chicago at that time.
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Literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is the most comprehensive work in the English language on Ukraine, its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage. This site was created and is updated/maintained by a team of scholars and editors from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) (University of Alberta/University of Toronto). Hundreds of specialists from around the world have contributed and continue to contribute to …
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International section provides data, statistical reports, forecasts ans analyses. Analyses include country energy profiles, chronologies of energy events, international energy security, and other special topics.
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The site is designed to facilitate research on the politics and economics of transition states in the post-communist world. You will find thousands of links to governmental and non-governmental web sites based in post-communist states, fonts to install on your computer, and other resources.
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Russian Internet TV
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Guide to finding print and electronic materials produced by the European Union
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The Journal of the Slavic & East European Folklore Association. Published since 1997, SEEFA covers all aspects Slavic and Eastern European folkloric tradition. International in scope. Content in English.
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Search by region, country, or topic. Includes foreign government and international web sites and related information, including news and statistics.
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The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The HPSSS Online is a collection of summary transcripts of 693 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind …
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The database "contains peer-reviewed journal articles, proceedings, educational resources and any kind of scholarly works of Hokkaido University." -- from the introduction
北海道大学の「研究者や大学院生等が著した学術論文、学会発表資料、教育資料等を保存・公開するもの」。
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Electronic resources for information on world governments and country profiles. Contains some hard-copy resources.
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The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyzes events occuring in the Middle East and the Balkans.
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Includes a large variety of data, some of which is free, some of which requires subscription. Includes global data, such as the World Economic Outlook Databases and International Financial Statistics; IMF financial data by country and by topic; Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, and many others
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Provides access to publications in international relations and security by research institutes, think tanks, and government and non-governmental organizations.
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This inventory is a database of metadata about Slavic, East European, and Eurasian digital projects. Inventories in which collection creators submit their own entries (subject to editing by the maintainer of the registry) are called registries. The inventory will shortly migrate to a database, and we will then welcome submissions (subject to editing) but also continue to create some of our own records for projects
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The site contains primary documents, news and current affairs, and research and publications pertaining to international security issues. All content and newsletters are free and several newsletters can be subscribed to by email/
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Data resulting from the compliation of the work: Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust, by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack.
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Johnson's Russia List is collection of articles about Russia from news sources all over the world. Articles are selected (then translated, if necessary), distributed twice daily via the JRL listserve, and later posted online. Topics include the arts, humanities, culture, economics, the environment, politics, social problems and more. JRL provides a snapshot of events, issues, problems, issues, etc. as they unfold and are reported in the …
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"Pipss.org is an online international social sciences journal devoted to the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. The journal's focus is the comparative and multi-disciplinary study of the structures and forces that make up the security systems, administrations and institutions employing armed personnel in all the Republics of the Former Soviet Union (FSU)."
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On-line encyclopedia of Russian History. Organized chronologically by century and decade. Thematic list also provided
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Directory of newspapers and other news sources on the internet. Includes links to 19,520 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world. Every country has its own integrated page.
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List of occasional papers on a wide range of topics. Mostly in Japanese. Some in English and Russian
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Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
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Migdal is a large unique Jewish non-profit organization that offers numerous services to the Jewish Community of Odessa, Ukraine as well as conducts cultural and educational exchange with Jewish Communities worldwide through exhibits, seminars, conferences, and other programs. So far we conducted exchange programs with our colleagues from Israel, America, Austria and Germany.
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MERLN (the Military Education Research Library Network) is a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach. It represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of researchers and scholars. MERLN’s extensive electronic resources include the following:
(1) Military Policy Awareness Links (MiPALs), …
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Multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal devoted to Nabokov studies. Content in English, French, German, and Russian. Parallel sites in English and Russian
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A list of Russian regional archives
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An online journal of issues pertaining to the Polish military and Polish soldiers.
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A private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwestern Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In countries stretching from Belarus to Bosnia and from the Arctic Sea to the Persian Gulf. RFE/RL provides balanced, reliable information to bolster democratic development and market economies in countries …
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A database of web resources for the Russian and East European area. Functionality includes keyword searching; browse by subject, geographical region, culture, time period; as well as a calendar for Russia & Eastern Europe related event around the world.
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Online guide to published reference reference sources on Russia.
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The Institute supports a wide range of sociological data about Russia's diverse populations and regions. Resources included: Sociological atlas of the Russia's Regions, online journal of social policy (SPERO), and The Russian Sociological Data Archive which consolidates data from 12 major sociological institutions in Russia -- ВЦИОМ (Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения), …
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Scholarly website dedicated to the life and works of Leo Tolstoy. Includes digitized. Includes fully searchable versions of the 90 volume Jubilee edition of Tolstoy's collected works, annotated bibliographies of Tolstoy's Library at Yasnaia Poliana, and resources from the Lenin Library, all in searchable format.
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This set of reference grammars has been designed for advanced-level language users and linguists to compare semantic categories across languages. Each grammar also provides background information about the language and its speakers. In some cases the author has included a topic which provides greater illumination of the language (e.g. tongue twisters, slang/profanity, or a set of exemplary texts). These sections are indicated by a shaded …
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SEVENTEEN MOMENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY has been funded by a generous educational development grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). The project has been directed and created by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University), and the principal designer of the site is Krzystof Karski. The project was developed in collaboration with MATRIX, a center devoted to the application of new …
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The mission of the SEELRC (pronounced "see-l-r-c") is to improve the national capacity to teach and learn Slavic and East European languages. The Center accomplishes this by developing teaching and assessment materials as well as by supporting research and a variety of activities, including undergraduate and graduate education and exchange programs, conferences, seminars, and public outreach programs. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. …
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An excellent repository of guides and recommended websites for the Slavic and Eurasian area. Arrangement by resource type and by country.
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This site takes a discipline- (or area studies) based approach to information literacy. It attempts to ascertain and enunciate the core information literacies and competencies students and scholars of Slavic are expected to demonstrate (or at least possess) in order to be productive members of the field. It focuses on those literacies/competencies that, at present, are most often acquired, if at all, outside of the usual scholarly or …
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Website contains several official statistical publications for Slovenia, including census and regional statististcal data. Titles include Popisni atlas Slovenije, Statistične informacije, Statistični letopis, Slovenske regije v številkah, Pomembnejši stastični podatki o Sloveniji
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This searchable database provides access to World War I and II posters held by the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Public Library. Collection contains over 6,000 items.
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Provides in-depth analysis on all 28 countries of Central and Eastern, and Southern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Baltic, Central Asia, and other republics of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. It provides timely analysis of current events in post-communist countries and insightful features on societies and cultures in transition. Access to the journal Transitions from 1997 to present, also includes archives of publications by the …
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The TransMONEE database includes statistical data (Excel file) for the regions of Russia, East-Central Europe, Balkans, and Central Asia. Data sets include: Population, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators.
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Offers up to date news and other information on development in Russia and many other countries worldwide. Includes annual Human Development reports for the Russian Federation.
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"The UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life." Includes reports (PDF) on UNDP programs
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Offers high quality national and international statistics, and global statistical programs; cross-country, cross-sector, thematic research outputs from the World Bank's main research unit; and information, analysis and advice on global trends in the world economy.
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The official site of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. It is dedicated to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. Parallel sites in English and Russian
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Stanford's Student Journal of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The purpose of this journal is to enrich Stanford student life by creating a needed outlet for dedicated students to share their interests in Slavic Studies and to foster an interest among other students for further academic engagement in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
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Online version of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia [Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia]
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Online version of the smaller Brokgauz and Efron Encyclopedia [Malyi entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauza i Efrona]
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The Goal of the Russian Virtual Library [Russkaia virtualnaia biblioteka] is to publish in electronic format classical and contemporary works of Russian literature according from authoritative sources.
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"Russian poetry of the 1960's in hypertext" [Russkaia poeziia 1960-x godov kak gipertekst] includes works by Russian poets from the 1960's
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Home page of the Russian National Library [Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka]. Provides access to catalogs and online exhibits
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Online version of Vladimir Dal's famous 19th century dictionary of the Russian language [Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo iazyka Vladimira Dalia].
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"FEB-web" is short for The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore [Fundamental'naia Elektronaia biblioteka: Russkaia literatura i fol'klor], a project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and online since July 2002. FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital …
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