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Russia and East Europe

This page provides information about our Russian and East European collection and connects to Internet resources on campus, around the nation and the world.

The Russian and East European Collection

The Russian and East European collection focuses on Russian language, literature, history, religious studies, art, architecture, music, theater, philosophy, economics and political science.The Llibraries hold approximately 100,000 Slavic-language volumes. Geographical coverage includes the countries of Russia and the former Soviet Union,. the Balkan Peninsula as well as the countries of East-Central Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia.

The guide 20th Century Russian Literature: English-Language Resources is a selected listing of English-language reference sources considered useful for the undergraduate pursuing research on 20th century literary topics. Listings include encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, indexes and abstracts. These works may also helpful for researchers in other Russian studies areas. A plain text version is available for Web browsers unable to read the PDF format.

ASU Libraries has one of the two largest Slavic collections in Arizona's academic libraries. The other is at University of Arizona Libraries and is described on their Russian and Slavic Studies Page.

Selected Bibliographies and Indexes

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

A weekly compilation of English translations or summaries of articles from the Russian language press. Lists news and events by countries which were formerly Soviet republics. Latest issues are in Current Periodicals, D839 .C87.

MLA International Bibliography

Indexes articles and books on modern languages, literature, folklore and linguistics. Located in Hayden REF PB1 .M16x. Also available on public access workstations in the Library by searching the journal indexes section on the main menu of the online catalog.

Slavic studies : a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks

Compiled and edited by Murlin Croucher, Slavic Studies Area Specialist at Indiana University Libraries, this guide serves as a tool for research in the humanities and social sciences for East European and Slavic studies. Arranges reference works by subject, so it is not necessary to know the author or title of a specific work. Geographical reas of coverage include the Balkans, Bulgaria, former Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, Poland, former Soviet Union, and former Yugoslavia. Located in Hayden Reference, DJK27 .S63x 1993 v.1-2.

Electronic Reference Sources

FBIS Publications

A quarterly updated CD-ROM index which includes full text of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports for all regions of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as well as other areas of the world. The Reports consist of English translations of news and commentary from foreign broadcasts, news agencies and newspapers. Coverage is from January through December 1996. Located in Hayden Government Documents.

Index to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports

A CD-ROM index containing references to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. Full text of the FBIS Daily Report. East Europe and Daily Report. Central Eurasia are available on microfiche through mid-1996. Coverage will be continued by the quarterly updates of the FBIS Publications described above. Both the the Index and the microfiche are located in Hayden Government Documents.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies - material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe. Since 1992, cites and abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations and articles from 10,000 periodicals.
At present, this database is not compatible with current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and therefore, is not available on the Library's public terminals. However, the soon-to-be released version of Explorer 4.0 will permit access on Library workstations. If you search from your home or office you will need to use Netscape and the special logon command and password that is available only to ASU faculty, staff and students. Please contact me for this information via e-mail at: iemxm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu .
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Russian and Slavic Programs at Arizona Universities

Arizona State University Department of Languages and Literatures. Slavic Languages Section Arizona State University. Russian and East European Studies Consortium
University of Arizona Department of Russian and Slavic Languages

National Library Cooperation

ASU Libraries is a member of the Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP) of the Center for Research Libraries. This Project seeks to acquire microform copies of unique, scarce, rare and/or unusually bulky and expensive research material pertaining to the field of Slavic and East European studies; and to preserve deteriorating printed and manuscript materials of scholarly value. Areas of interest for this research material are the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic States and the countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Regional Library Cooperation

ASU Libraries is a member of the The Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV) The Consortium was founded in 1996 to promote sharing of Slavic studies resources among libraries with large Slavic collections in the Western United States and Canada.

  • Affiliated institution:

    University of British Columbia Library

    Russian and Slavic Internet Resources

    ReesWeb at the University of Pittsburgh

    ReesWeb, sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Pittsburgh is a comprehensive index of electronic resources on Russia, the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It provides an excellent starting point for exploring Russian and East European Web resources with its links to national home pages, online newspapers, reference tools and even sites where fonts necessary for viewing Cyrillic texts are available, to name just a sampling of its coverage.

    REENIC (Russian and East European Network Information Center) at the University of Texas, Austin.

    REENIC features a directory for 28 counries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. It includes links to information servers in and about these countries.