Russian Studies
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (online)
Encyclopedia of Russian History (online)
Imperial Russia: A Reference Handbook (online)
Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation (online)
The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (online)
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (online)
Books on Russian studies will be found on the Library shelves at various call numbers, for example:
DK1 - 950 History
HC331 -340 Economics
HN521 - 530 Social conditions
JN6500 - 6598 Politics and administration
PG2001 - 2826 Language
PG2900 - 3698 Literature
You can also use the Library
Catalogue keyword search to find books on your topic. Some books are
available online (e-books).
Oxford Russian Dictionary (online)
For Russian-to-English dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
For English-to-Russian dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
MLA International
Bibliography
This database lists journal articles and books on Russian language and
literature.
Linguistics and Language
Behavior Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on Russian linguistics.
Historical
Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on Russian history from 1450 to
the present.
Worldwide Political
Science Abstracts
This database lists journal articles on Russian and Soviet politics and
government.
Newspapers
Pravda (microfilm from 1917 onwards)
Izvestiia (microfilm from 1967 onwards)
Translated newspaper articles and radio broadcasts from the period 1941 to 1996 are included in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports.
From the 1990s onwards, many Russian newspapers are available online via the Factiva database.
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