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Slavic and Eastern European Studies

Karen Rondestvedt, Curator; rondest@stanford.edu; (650) 725-1052
Collections General Description Special Collections Criteria and Descriptions Archival Holdings Online Finding Aids Post Perestroika Miscellaneous Imprints Popular Culture, 1990- Artist's Books Films Maps Russian Art Russian Music Current Slavic Newspapers

Selected Full -Text Electronic Sources for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

• East View Information Services' Universal Databases: full-text, searchable online current newspapers, news magazines and newswires from Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS countries. Also selected Russian scholarly journals. Most material is in Russian, but there are a number of titles in English and some in Ukrainian. Access: Stanford-only;
• Central and East European Online Library: searchable full-text articles from 250 humanities and social science journals pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. Most are published in the region. Most are in languages of the region or English. Access: Stanford-only;
• World News Connection: English language translations of foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspaper & journal articles, plus press releases. Access: Stanford-only;
• Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty: news and analysis from entire region. Access: everyone;
• Transitions Online: analysis of current issues in entire region. Access: everyone (selected articles), Stanford-only (Premium articles);
• EurasiaNet.org: information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Access: everyone;
• International Relations and Security Network ISN: includes major emphases on Russia, Southeast Europe and NATO. Access: everyone;
• Russian and CIS statistical publications in East View's UDB Statistics. Access: Stanford-only;
• Europe-Asia Studies, formerly Soviet Studies, via JSTOR (1949-2003). Access: Stanford-only;
• Russian Review: current issues via Ingenta; older issues via JSTOR (1941-2001). Access: Stanford-only;
• Slavic and East European Journal via JSTOR (1957-2003). Access: Stanford-only;
• Slavic Review and its predecessors via JSTOR (1941-2005). Access: Stanford-only.

Selected Full -Text Russian Resources for Researchers in History and Literature

• Elektronnye resursy po istorii (History of Russia: Electronic Resources): large, well-organized site in Russian containing primary source documents, databases, reference works, links to documents posted on other sites, etc.From Moscow State University Faculty of History. Access: everyone;
• Fundamental'naia elektronnaia biblioteka "Russkaia literatura i fol'klor" (FEB-web): major collection of digital scholary editions, which include primary texts, secondary literature and bibliographical works. Digitized encyclopedias and dictionares on Russian literature and folklore also. From Gorky Institute of World Literature and Informregistr Center at Russian Ministry for Communications. Access: everyone.

Selected Slavic Reference Works

• Sokr.ru, an online dictionary of Russian and Soviet abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, etc. Access: everyone;
• Wojciech Zalewski's Russian Reference Works. Access: everyone;
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES). Access: Stanford-only;
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (INION). Access: Stanford-only;
• ArcheoBiblioBase, large extract of a guide to Russian archives maintained by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with Rosarkhiv (in English and Russian);
• Arkhivy Rossii, website of Rosarkhiv (in Russian);
• The Russian Archive Project, a scholarly collaboration, has produced several volumes of guides to formerly classified collections. Site gives titles and other information. Stanford's copies can be found using Socrates;
• UNESCO Archives Portal's links to archive websites around the world;
• RussGUS, a bibliography of German-language publications on the Soviet Union and its successor states, covering publication dates 1974 through approximately 2000;
• Russian National Bibliography, 1998- from Russian Book Chamber in cooperation with East View. Access: Stanford-only;
• From National Library of Poland: Polish national bibliography, including indexes of Polish periodical articles beginning in 1985 and underground periodicals 1976-1990 (interface in Polish);
• From National Library of the Czech Republic: Czech national bibliography and Articles in Czech newspapers, journals and collections of articles (interface in Czech or English);
• Croatian bibliographies maintained by National and University Library in Zagreb. Includes Part B of national bibliography, articles in periodicals and collections (interface in Croatian), covering 1998-

Items of Interest

• Contemporary Polish Artists' Books Exhibition and Symposium at Stanford University, 1997
• Wojciech Zalewski's "Typology of Russian Post 1989 Journals"

Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV)

Selected Internet Links

• REESWeb, search engine for Russian and East European Internet resources, from University of Pittsburgh;
• REENIC, search engine for Russian and East European Internet resources, from University of Texas at Austin;
• Slavophilia, another large search engine for Russian and East European Internet resources;
• Link Collection from Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center ;
• Internet Resources from Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois;
• Sher's Russian Index ;
• Library of Congress's Portals to the World, well-selected Internet sites from and about countries of the world;
• Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia, from University of Kansas;
• Central Eurasian Studies World Wide, sponsored by Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus;
• Stanford Slavic Department's selected Internet links;
• Friends and Partners, large and varied site "developed by friends in the US and Russia to promote better understanding between the people of our countries" (in English or Russian);
• The European Library website's The National Libraries of Europe page has links to Europe's national libraries;
• LibDex, worldwide index of library catalogs and websites;
• Elektronnye katalogi bibliotek, links to catalogs of the most important libraries in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Baltic States (in Russian);
• Transliteration tables, from the Library of Congress.

Scholarly and Grant-Giving Organizations for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

Stanford Slavic Library Staff

Related Departments and Programs at Stanford

• Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC);
• Center for Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES);
• Department of History;
• Department of Political Science;
• Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures;
• Division of International Comparative and Area Studies;
• Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies;
• Hoover Institution Library and Archives.

Last modified: December 12, 2009