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Library Catalogs

Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Books, videos, government documents, etc. in Bowdoin's library.

NExpress
A combined catalog containing the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Williams, Middlebury, and Northeastern. Requests take 2-3 days.

MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Requests take 2-5 days

WorldCat
A combined database of many library catalogs worldwide. Request items found in WorldCat through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Reference Sources

Historical/Political

Annual survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Armonk, N.Y.. : M.E. Sharpe, c1998-
Main Ref DJK51 .O65 1997
This source covers Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe and Russia. ARticles analyze the economy, government, business environment and foreign policy.

Atlas of Russia and the Independent Republics
Moshe Brawer
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994
Main Ref G2110 .B7 1994 ATLAS STAND
Maps, statistical graphs and articles on the economy, natural resources and government.

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union
Edited by Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith ; associate editor Patricia Brown Edition 2nd ed.
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994
Main Ref DK14 .C35 1994
Chapters include art and architecture, politics, history, language and literature, society, religion and culture.

Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union
By Robin Milner-Gulland with Nikolai Dejevsky
New York : Facts on File Publications, 1989
Main Ref DK32 .M62 1989
A wealth of information conveyed through maps, graphs and illustrations.

An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires
Edited by James S. Olson ; Lee Brigance Pappas and Nicholas C.J. Pappas, associate editors
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994
Main Ref DK33 .E837 1994
Entries range from a paragraph to a page. The appendix includes statistics and a chronology of events.

Academic Search Premier
(journal articles and some newspaper articles) Try a keyword search using "and" between terms, or do a subject search on Russia and narrow by subdivision.

Historical Abstracts
Try keyword searching or to browse the Subject Terms, click the magnifying glass.

The Modern encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian history
Prepared by the editors of Academic International Press
Gulf Breeze, Fla. : Academic International Press, 1994-
Main Ref DK14 .M6
Sixty volumes provide an in depth analysis of the many issues affecting the former republic.

Official publications of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-1980 : a select annotated bibliography
Edited by Gregory Walker
London : Mansell ; Bronx, N.Y. : Distributed by H.W. Wilson, 1982
Main Ref Z2499 .O36 1982
By country, find a listing of bibliographical works and government documents in the native language or English. There are references to documents addressing international relations, economic affairs, the military and cultural affairs.

PAIS International
Find abstracts to articles concerning the economy, politics and social issues.

Political parties of Eastern Europe, Russia and the successor states
Edited by Bogdan Szajkowski
Harlow, Essex, U.K. : Longman, 1994
Main Ref JN96.A979 P65 1994
Arranged by country, information includes the history of the development of political parties and a directory of parties with contact information.

Russia and the independent states
Edited by Daniel C. Diller
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c1993
Main Ref DK293 .D55 1993
The focus is on the general economic condition and politics of this region of the world. The first section covers history from the revolution to Yeltsin. There is a chronology of events and excepts of speeches and Soviet government documents. A detailed index and bibliography add to the usefulness of this resource.

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. Nijhoff ; Hingham, MA : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, 1982
Main Ref DK275.A1 B56 1982

Brief profiles

Biography Index
This database provides citations to articles. Use the Subject option and type the last name first.

Who's who in Russia since 1900
Martin McCauley
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
Main Ref CT1203 .M37 1997
Brief profiles, maps and a glossary

Who's Who
Select the Who's Who databases from the list, and once connected, use the Index to select the name of an individual.

Who's who in the Soviet Union : a biographical encyclopedia of 5,000 leading personalities in the Soviet Union
Edited by Borys Lewytzkyj
München ; New York : K.G. Saur, 1984
Main Ref DK37 .W48 1984
Brief profiles and a profession index

Women in Russia and the Soviet Union : an annotated bibliography
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
New York : G.K. Hall ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993
Main Ref Z7964.S68 R88 1993

Language and Literature

This is organized by time period and has a title and subject index.

Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917
Wolfgang Kasack ; translated by Maria Carlson and Jane T. Hedges ; bibliographical revision by Rebecca Atack
New York : Columbia University Press, 1988
Main Ref PG2991.4 .K3513 1988
The entries range from a few paragraphs to a couple pages. Theories, ideas, characters, authors and a listing of works are included.

Early modern Russian writers : late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Edited by Marcus C. Levitt Detroit : Gale Research, c1995
Main Ref PG2991.2 .E17 1995
The focus is on biographical information, not criticism.

Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic myth and legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998
Main Ref BL930 .D58 1998
Entries range from a paragraph to a few pages. There is a topic finder and an index.

Handbook of Russian literature
Edited by Victor Terras
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1985
Main Ref PG2940 .H29 1985
This has similar coverage as the Dictionary of Russian Literature.

MLA International Bibliography
Find abstracts to articles concerning language and literature.

New English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary M.A. O'Brien New York, Dover Publications, 1944
Main Ref PG2640 .O3 1944
Note: Other dictionaries/grammar guides available in the reference and circulating collection. Browse the call number area.

Russian [sound recording]
[Oxford] : Berlitz Pub. Co., p1992
Display Audio Learn to speak Russian or improve pronunciation and grammar.

Russian literature in the age of Pushkin and Gogol. Prose
Edited by Christine A. Rydel
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1999
Main Ref PG3093 .R79 1998
The emphasis is on biographical information, not criticism.

Newspapers

With the exception of Pravda, these holdings are current.

Argumenty i fakty : biulleten ordena Lenina vsesoiuznogo obshchestva "Znanie," lektoram, ropagandistam, politinformatoram, agitatoram
Moskva : Izd-vo "Znanie",
Main Newspaper
One month's backfiles.

Izvestiia
Moskva : Izd-vo "Izvestiia,"
Main Newspaper
One month's backfiles in paper
Online through Access World News, 1996-

Literaturnaia gazeta : organ Pravleniia Soiuza sovetskikh pisatelei SSSR
Moskva : Tip. Gudok
Main Newspaper
Print edition: one month's backfiles
Microfilm: 1955-1991

Archived Newspapers

Academic Universe
Follow the World and Eastern Europe links. Some of the newspapers are back filed for a month, but the focus is on providing today's news.
Try the News and then World News sections. Click More Options and change the search default to Headline and Lead Paragraph.

Web Sites

The following web sites were chosen for their ease of use and wealth of information. Each of the sites has a subject directory that organizes links by subtopic. Some of the metasites also include an internal search engine.

Friends and Partners
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/home.html
A large collection of web sites.

Russophilia
http://dove.net.au/~rabogna/russian/rusindex.htm
Clear designation of topics and over 7000 linked sites. Whether the site is in English or Russian is specified.

Russia on the Net
www.ru/
All links are annotated.

REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources
www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
Sites are divided by type of resource (academic programs, listservs) and topic. All sites are annotated.

Totalnews.com
totalnews.com
A web source that provides access to current news stories.