Western-language materials on Russia

See also Library catalogs and Subject sections

Due to the rapid development of the electronic information technology, a significant portion of Western-language materials, especially those published in English in the last decade, are available in machine readable form. Consult: Machine readable bibliographies.

Books

Retrospective bibliographies

Horecky, P.L., ed. RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO WESTERN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1965;

continued by

Horak, S.M. RUSSIA, THE USSR, AND EASTERN EUROPE. A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS. 1964-1974. Littleton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1979; and continuation for 1975-1980, published in 1982; for 1981-1985, published in 1987;

continued by

Sullivan, H.F., Burger, R. H. RUSSIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS. 1986-1991. Englewood, Libraries Unlimited, 1994.

Bollard, S. D. REINTERPRETING RUSSIA: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON RUSSIA, THE SOVIET UNION AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 1991-1996. Lanham, Scarecrow, 1997.

Schaffner, B. L. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOVIET UNION, ITS PREDECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1995. (Scarecrow Area Bibliogrphies, No. 5).
Books published mainly since 1984.

Jones, D.L. BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON THE SOVIET UNION 1917-73. A BIBLIOGRAPHY. New York, Garland, 1975.

Schultheiss, T., ed. RUSSIAN STUDIES 1941-1958. A CUMULATION OF THE ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES FROM THE RUSSIAN REVIEW. Ann Arbor, The Pierian Press, 1972.

Grierson, P. BOOKS ON SOVIET RUSSIA 1917-1942. A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND A GUIDE TO READING. London, Methuen, 1943.

Books and articles

Kerner, R.J. SLAVIC EUROPE. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1918.

Catalogs

CATALOGUE DE LA SECTION DES RUSSICA OU ECRITS SUR LA RUSSIE EN LANGUES ETRANGERES. St. Petersburg, Bibliotheque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg, 1873. 2 vols.

Gol'dberg, A.L., IAkovleva, I.G. DOREVOLIUTSIONNYE IZDANIIA PO ISTORII SSSR V INOSTRANNOM FONDE GOSUDARSTVENNOI PUBLICHNOI BIBLIOTEKI IM. M.E. SATLYKOVA-SHCHEDRINA. SISTEMATICHESKII UKAZATEL'. Leningrad, 1982-1986. 3 vols.

Current bibliographies: Books and articles

United States

AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, 1956-.

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Western Europe

EUROPEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOVIET, EAST EUROPEAN, AND SLAVONIC STUDIES, 1975-, Birmingham, 1978-. It was preceded by registration in the journals:

CAHIERS DU MONDE RUSSE ET SOVIETIQUE;

SOVIET, EAST EUROPEAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES.

For countries not contributing to the EUROPEAN BIBLIOGRAPHY see

RICHERCHE SLAVISTICHE (Italy), continued in EUROPA ORIENTALIS since 1982; SCANDO-SLAVICA (Scandinavian countries except Finland).

East Germany

Pohrt, H. BIBLIOGRAPHIE SLAVISCHER PUBLIKAZIONEN AUS DER DEUTSCHEN DEMOKRATISCHEN REPUBLIK, 1946-1967. Berlin, Akademischer Verlag, 1968-.

Canada

Stevens, M. "Canadian publications on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for...," CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS, 1978-.

Lists of serials

Lists of serials can be found in current bibliographies as well as in form List of Abbreviations in subject bibliographies.

Hoskins, J.W. THE USSR AND EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: PERIODICALS IN WESTERN LANGUAGES. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1980.

de Bonnieres, F. GUIDE DE L'ETUDIANT EN RUSSE. Paris, Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1977 (Documents Pedagogiques de l'Institut d'Etudes Slaves, XIV).

Wynar, L.R. ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF ETHNIC NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED STATES. 2nd edn. Littleton, Libraries Unlimited, 1976.