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Russian Guide

Introduction

Welcome to the Mount Holyoke College Russian Research Guide!

In this section, you will find a variety of resources that can assist you with your research. The resources here are geared to more advanced or native-speaking students and majors that are conducting research for their course assignments. 

Core Resources

Some of the resources helpful for Russian Research are:

Featured E-Reference Books:

The University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library offers a free service in discovering products or challenging reference inquiries in the Slavic field. Individuals and libraries can contact the Slavic Reference Service with bibliographic and reference issues in the humanities and social sciences.

Featured Reference Books

Call Number: MH Reference / PG2991.3 .R867 2004Library Info

ISBN: 078766832X

Publication Date: 2004-04-09

Call Number: AE55.B623 Ref.

Use the Index volume to find your topic; this English translation is not in A-Z order because it follows the original Cyrillic alphabet order. Or consult the more comprehensive original (in the stacks AE55.B62) Bol'shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia

​​​​​​​Call Number: MH Reference / PG2991.4 .R78 2003Library Info

ISBN: 0787668222

Publication Date: 2003-08-20

Call Number: MH Reference / DK14 .C35 1994Library Info

ISBN: 0521355931

Publication Date: 1994-10-27

Call Number: MH Stacks / PG2940 .M6

ISBN: 087569070X

Publication Date: 1977-01-01

Primary Sources:

With a large collection of indexed sources published in the United States and Canada, this bibliographic resource contains information about East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. ABSEES has been available from 1989 until the present.

This multidisciplinary database contains full text for over 4,600 journals, including roughly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles with full text (PDFs). Over a hundred periodicals have backfiles dating back to 1975 or earlier, and more than 1,000 titles have searchable references.

ProjectMUSE is a significant source of scholarly information in the digital humanities and social sciences.

Useful Databases

Through LITS you have access to several journals to help you with your research. Here is the link to the full list of databases that one can access.  If you need help, please contact a librarian through on the LITS page. The following are particularly helpful for language and culture research topics. 

Literary Criticism Index (the 1920s - present)

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

Bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts and humanities from 1975-present. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection

The following are specific to the Russian language and culture:

It features some of the best "meta sites," or sites that link to a lot of other sites and are grouped by subject, theme, or format.

"Amazing collection of rare Russian books, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, and works of art honoring Russia's cultural and intellectual achievements in the twentieth century."

Materials published in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom are covered by EBSEES. 

The database is divided into two parts: 1991-2000 and 2001-present. It's completely free to use. 
Print volumes 1977-1995 in the stacks Z 2483.E94 Folio

A German-language bibliographic database of materials on Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states. The database contains approximately 170.000 records and dates back to 1974.

Citing Sources

It is important to cite your sources correctly. This LITS Research Guide gives you all the updated and complete information that you need. 

Check out this page for particular information on citing sources in a foreign language in APA, MLA, and other platforms.