HISTORY 300
Russian Revolution
Selected Resources
PRINT SOURCES
deMowbray, Stephen, Key facts in Soviet history. London : Pinter Publishers in association with John Spiers, 1990.
HAYDEN REFERENCE DK266 .D39 1990b
Provides an exhaustive chronology of the Revolution.
Jackson, George. Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. New York : Greenwood Press, 1989
HAYDEN REFERENCE DK265 .D49 1989
Shukman, Harold. The Blackwell encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1988.
HAYDEN REFERENCE DK265 .B54 1988
A basic encyclopedia of the revolution, chronologically and topically arranged. Provides good textual overview and context for the period.
Wieczynski, Joseph L. The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history. Gulf Breeze, Fl : Academic International Press, 1976-
HAYDEN REFERENCE DK 14 .M6
A massive on-going encyclopedic effort now number 60 volumes. Volumes 57 & 58 respectively are comprehensive indexes of entries by topics and time periods.
INDEXES TO OLDER LITERATURE
Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History 1838-1974. 11 vols. Washington: Carrollton, 1977-78.
HAYDEN REFERENCE D 1 .C7X
Indexes all articles from the earliest volumes through 1974 for 243 English language periodicals covering all periods and all areas in the field of history. Arranged by subject and author.
International Index. New York: Wilson, 1907-65.
HAYDEN REFERENCE AI 3 .R49
PAIS: Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service; annual cumulation. New York [etc.] Public Affairs Information Service, 1915-1968.
HAYDEN REFERENCE H 1 .P849x
Cumulative subject index to the Public Affairs Information Service bulletins, 1915-1974. Arlington, Va. : Carrollton Press, c1977-1978.
HAYDEN REFERENCE Z 7163 .P913x
Essential source for articles on governments, politics and political movements. Continued online by PAIS International (1972+).
ONLINE INDEXES AND RESOURCES
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1990+)
Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.
Historical Abstracts (1954+)
Covers the world's scholarly literature in history. Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.
Historical New York Times Index(Proquest). (1851-1999) ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times 1851-1999 is an electronic database to articles published in The New York Times from 1851-1999.
JSTOR (Electronic Journals Collection)
Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.
Periodicals Contents Index - PCI Full Text (selected titles) (1770-1990/91)
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (1992+) Describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals.
Universal Database of Social Sciences and Humanities Includes materials from newspapers, journals, government documents, dissertations, etc. from Russia. It covers not only Humanities and Social Sciences but also Science and Technology, Medicine, and Agriculture.
SELECTED INTERNET SITES
History of the Russian Revolution, The - complete three-volume work by Leon Trotsky in HTML and PDF form.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This site forms one of the three "parent" sourcebooks of the Internet History Sourcebooks which are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts compiled under the direction of Paul Halsall of Fordham University. One of the many sub-sourcebooks of this site deals specifically with the Russian Revolution.
Russian Revolution Links - extensive collection of information and links to sites on the revolution of 1917.
Soviet History/Marxist History/Marxist Internet Archive
This excellent web page of the larger site “Marxist History” includes links to information concerning the Soviet state and Russian Revolution as well as to the full text archive of significant Marxist writers.
Yahoo - History - Russian Revolution
Particularly useful for tracking down sites with primary sources. Its hierarchical arrangement is as close to a library as one gets on the web.
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
Political Science/History Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu
