Resources on Russia

The collection of materials from the Russian Federation and the other nations of the former Soviet Union totals more than 250,000 items, including a large collection of microforms. This collection is maintained through individual purchases, standing orders, gifts and through exchanges with several dozen libraries in the area, including the national libraries and libraries of the Academies of Sciences of these countries. Exchanges are maintained with libraries in provincial Russia including such cities as Cheboksary, Ekaterinburg, Petrozavodsk, Rostov-na-Donu and Voronezh.

Newspapers | Journals | Other Collections

 

 

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Current Newspapers-Located in Room 240 of Memorial Library | top

Chas Pik Kultura Literaturnaia Gazeta Literaturnaia Rossiia Moscow News (Moskovskie novosti)

Novoe Russkoe Slove (Weekend edition) Rossiiskaia Gazeta Russkaia Mysl' St. Petersberg Times

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Other Collections | top

 

The Department of Special Collections holds several unique Russian collections. The Russian Underground Collection is a singular collection of pamphlets and illegal materials from 19th- and early 20th-century Russia, known as Vol'naia pechat'. Special Collections has a number of other important collections of materials on Russia and the former Soviet Union, including a collection on Cossacks, the Prince Romanovskii Collection (the library of a high Russian bureaucrat), and a rich collection of Pushkiniana, reputed to be the best in the U.S. In addition, the library holds an extensive collection of samizdat materials from the 1970s and early 1980s, a good collection of unofficial newspapers from the former Soviet Union dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a substantial collection of newspapers from the former Soviet republics from the late 1980s. The library likewise contains a significant collection of emigre materials published abroad after the Revolution.

The Granick archival collection deserves special mention, as it is a truly unique body of materials encompassing the entire region. It consists of eighteen boxes of primary source material used by Professor David Granick in his works on management practices in socialist economies, including his numerous interviews with socialist managers in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. The Granick collection is held in the University Archives.

Extensive materials on Russian art have been collected since 1964 and are stored in the Kohler Art Library.