Slavic, Central & Eastern European Studies

 

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Slavic, Central & Eastern European Studies Scope Top Databases Other Databases Books Archives Bibliographies Biography/Genealogy/Nationalities Country Guides Encyclopedias Geography Historical Dictionaries Literature Journals Topic-Specific Entry Call Number Browsing (Library of Congress) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Subject Guides Digital Libraries Open Access Journals Associations Government Statistics Websites & Portals General Country Information (Websites) Forums, Mailing Lists, Discussion Groups

 

 

Scope

This is a broad topic that includes many disciplines; however, it is informed by the national, ethnic and religious perspectives of each of the various countries in this region of the world.

 

eg. see maps on the following Wikipedia pages:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages

 

 

This research guide is not meant to be exhaustive or comprehensive. Rather, it's aim is to provide a starting point for research and to provide an easily updated repository for sources in this area.

 

Top Databases

 

Academic Search Complete: available at: BCIT, UBC

Academic Search Premier (Multidisciplinary subjects): available at: CAM, CAP, DC, ECIAD, JIBC, KUC, NLC, OC, RRU, TRU, TWU, UCFV, UNBC, UVic, VCC

Academic Search Elite: available at: CNC, COTR, LC, MUC, NIC, NWCC, SC, SFU, YC

 

EBSEES (European sources from 1991)

 

Global Newsbank (PoliSci, IR): available at: UBC, UVic

 

Lexis Nexis Academic (Legal, Finance, Business): available at: RRU, SFU, UBC, UNBC, UNBC

 

Other Databases

 

ABI/Inform (business, markets, etc.)

• Complete: available at: MUC, OC, VCC
• Global : available at: CNC, COTR, LC, RRU, SC, TRU, UBC, UNBC

 

ABSEES (American Slavic bibliography)

 

 

American bibliography (Multidisciplinary subjects from 1990)

 

Business Source Premier (Business)

• Business Source Complete: available at: BCIT, DC, SFU, TWU, UBC
• Business Source Elite: available at: JIBC, UNBC
• Business Source Premier: available at: CAM, CAP, KUC, OC, RRU, TRU, UCFV, UVic

 

CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online (International Affairs from 1991): available at: RRU, TWU, UBC, UVic

 

 

EBSEES (European sources from 1991)

 

Europe 1450-1789 (Encyclopedia)

 

JSTOR (Ecclectic journal articles)

• Arts & Sciences Collections: available at: CAM, KUC, OC, SFU
• Language & Literature Collection: available at: OC, SFU
• Unknown Collections: available at: DC, LC, MUC, RRU, TRU, UCFV, UBC, UNBC, UVic

 

Proquest Dissertations and Theses: available at: RRU, UBC, UNBC

• as Digital Dissertations: SFU, TWU
• as Dissertations and Theses: UVic

 

Books

 

Archives

Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg (Grimstead, Patricia Kennedy) CD1710.A76 2000

Archives in Russia 1992: A Brief Directory (Grimstead, Patricia Kennedy) CD1711.A75 1992

The GDR in German Archives: A Guide to Primary Sources and Research Institutions on the History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1990 (Schafer, Bernd) DD257.2.S29 2002

Political Archives of the Soviet Union JN6598.K4 I553

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Catalogue of Finding Aids and Documents (Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace : State Archival Service of Russia) JN6598.K55 A73 2002

A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s (Fitzpatrick, Sheila & Viola, Lynne) ZHN523.R473 1990

 

 

See also online:

Cold War Studies at Harvard University, Online Document Archive [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/documents.htm]

Guide Books to Russian Archives [http://guides.eastview.com/search/basic/BasicSearch.html;jsessionid=Sf6gdzxLGD99mCRz]

Meeting of Frontiers (Library of Congress) [http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html]

The East European Data Archive Network (EDAN) [http://www.gesis.org/en/cooperation/data_service/eastern_europe/index.htm]

 

Bibliographies

Russia and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English-language publications, 1989-1999 (Sullivan, Helen F.) DJK9.S94 2001

 

 

 

NB: See also online bibliography

 

 

 

Biography/Genealogy/Nationalities

 

 

 

 

See also:

Archival Sources for the Study of Polish Canadians [http://biblioteka.info/archive.htm]

East European Geneaological Society (EEGS) [http://www.eegsociety.org/Home.aspx]

Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEHS) [http://feefhs.org/]

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) [http://www.ihf-hr.org/index.php]

Memorial: International Historical-Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society [http://www.memo.ru/eng/index.htm]

 

Country Guides

 

Country Information - Library of Congress Country Guides online [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html]

 

 

Also available in print (e.g. below) - search in catalogue by "Library of Congress, Federal Research Division"

 

 

 

Encyclopedias

 

 

 

 

Geography

Historical Atlas of Central Europe (Magocsi, Paul R.) G1881.S1 M32 2002

Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (Crampton, R.J.) G2080.C7 1996

Mapping Modernities: Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe, 1920-2000 (Dingsdale, Alan) GF645.E92 D56 2001

 

 

 

Historical Dictionaries

 

 

 

Literature

Modern Slavic Literatures (Mihailovich, Vasa D.) PG501.M518 1972

Bibliography of Slavic Literature (Nisula, Dasha Culic) PG501.N57 2001

The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Literatures (Rollberg, P.) PG2940.M6 1996

Reference Guide to Russian Literature (Cornwell, Neil) PG2940.R43 1998

Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (Ledkovsky, Marina) PG2997.D53 1994

Russian Women Writers (Tomei, Christine D.) PG3203.W64 R868 1999

Dictionary of Polish Literature (Czerwinski, E.J.) PG7007.D5 1994

Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature (Pynsent, Robert B.) PN849.E9 R38 1993

 

 

See databases also:

Contemporary Authors Online GALE

Contemporary Litarary Criticism GALE

 

Journals

 

The Slavonic and East European Review D377.A1 S65

 

Canadian Slavic Studies DK1.C313 (1967 to 1971)

 

Canadian-American Slavic Studies DK1.C313 (1972 to present)

 

Russian History DK1.R86 H47

 

Canadian Slavonic Papers PG1.C3

 

 

See also the Central and East European Online Library [http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/alphablist.aspx]

 

Topic-Specific Entry

 

Call Number Browsing (Library of Congress)

 

 

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

 

 

 

Subject Guides

Digital Libraries

Open Access Journals

Associations

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/]

 

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies [http://www.loyola.edu/awss/]

 

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies [http://www.basees.org.uk/]

 

Canadian Association of Slavists [http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/affiliated.html]

 

Central Eurasian Studies Society [http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/index.html]

 

Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services [http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/COSEELIS/links.html]

 

The Early Slavic Studies Association [http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~essa]/

 

East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections [http://www.princeton.edu/~nshapiro/eastconsrt.html]

 

The International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature [http://www.mapryal.org/english/]

 

The North American Association for Belarusian Studies [http://www.belarusianstudies.org/]

 

The Slavonic and East European Mediaeval Studies Group [http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~cleminsr/Seemsg.html]

 

Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia [http://www.sgecr.co.uk/]

 

 

Government

 

Statistics

The Census Online: Internet Census Resources for Eastern Europe and the FSU [http://www.lib.msu.edu/ticklet/census.htm]

 

Central Statistics Office, Poland [http://www.stat.gov.pl/english/index.htm]

 

Czech Statistical Office [http://www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/home]

 

Latvian Statistics [http://www.csb.lv/avidus.cfm?lng=en]

 

State Statistics Committee of Ukraine [http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/]

 

Statistics Lithuania [http://www.stat.gov.lt/en/?PHPSESSID=fa7fb7ef5b989dc5855e3eb22ddf5829]

 

United Nations Statistics Division [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm]

 

Websites & Portals

 

Cold War Studies at Harvard University, Soviet History Bibliography [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/resources.htm]

History Cooperative [http://www.historycooperative.org/]

ISI Emerging Markets [http://site.securities.com/ch.html?pc=RU〈=en]

UK Research Resources for Russian and East European Studies [http://www.cocorees.ac.uk/]

The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies [http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/]

 

 

General Country Information (Websites)

 

Take a look at the following websites for general information on a country of your choice (insert or choose from the appropriate web page menu the country about which you would like more information):

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria

 

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

 

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1765.html

 

http://www.voyage.gc.ca/dest/ctry/reportpage-en.asp

 

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ez.html

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107706.html

 

http://www.economist.com/countries/

 

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