Research Guides: European History by Country: Russia & the Soviet Union

Recommended Resources

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history from 1450-
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Fulltext of the entire back issues of scholarly journals

Pravda Archive: Global Perspectives, 1959-1996 This link opens in a new window
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), Daily Reports 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
Translated international news coverage of U.S. policy
Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922: From Silk Road to Soviet Rule This link opens in a new window
Political and diplomatic history of Central Asia

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art
University of Chicago Library
Americans in the Land of Lenin: Documentary Photographs of Early Soviet Russia, 1917-1930
Duke University Libraries
C-SPAN
C-SPAN's video library can be searched for segments on Soviet history.
End of the Cold War
Wilson Center Digital Archive
Foreign Relations of the United States
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Making the History of 1989
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Library of Congress
Soviet-American Diplomacy
The Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
Harvard University
The National Security Archive
George Washington University

A Companion to Russian History
28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day.
A Companion to the Russian Revolution
30 essays, written by a team of respected scholars of 20th century Russian history.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts.