This guide is an in-depth listing of Russian & Slavic Studies resources available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota
Primary Source Databases for Russian & Slavic Studies
Below is a selected of primary source databases for Russian & Slavic Studies. For databases covering historical news, see Find News.
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European HistoryPortal to open access primary historical documents for European countries that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Texts, video, sound files, maps, photographs and other imagery, databases, and other documentation are also available. Coverage is from Prehistoric Europe to present day.
- FEB-web: The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature & FolkloreA full-text digital resource, FEB-web accumulates information in text, audio, visual, and other forms on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies. In English.
- History of Russia Primary Documents (EuroDocs)Links to primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Video, sound files, maps, photographs and other imagery, databases, and other documentation are also available.
- Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital ProjectsHosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), an inventory of digital projects.
- Russian Archives OnlineGathers Russian archival collections of photographs and films, audio, clips and transcripts from the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and many more. In English.
- Russian State Library's Electronic LibraryIncludes eBooks, digital manuscripts, early printed books, music scores, as well as scientific and educational literature
- Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International PropagandaThis collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
- UMediaDiscover 161,819 images, maps, manuscripts, video, audio, and more. UMedia provides open access to digitized materials from across the University of Minnesota.
- Visual History ArchiveA fully streaming video collection of more than 55,000 primary source testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian Genocide, the Central African Republic Conflict, contemporary antisemitism, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre. Note: only available remotely to UMN users. See Visual History Archive Online (version for non-UMN users).
- All Primary Source DatabasesList of all primary source databases available to University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff.
Finding Primary Source Materials in Library Catalog
Additional resources can be found by searching the University of Minnesota Libraries' Catalog. Enter the term "sources" as a subject keyword and the keywords for the country, event or topic (e.g. "france" "revolution" su="sources") . More information
Film & Images
- Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International PropagandaThis collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
- History of Russia in PhotographsDigitized images of Russia and the Soviet Union collected from archives and museums throughout Russi
Digital Collections & Digital Libraries
- EuropeanaSingle access point to millions of artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
- FEB-web: The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature & FolkloreA full-text digital resource, FEB-web accumulates information in text, audio, visual, and other forms on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies. In English.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust provides access to millions of books and other materials. Full text searching of most books is available and books in the public domain (generally older books) can be freely viewed and/or downloaded. Books still in copyright have more limited access. Users with print-reading disabilities can apply for special access to digitized works by emailing wilsref@umn.edu.
- Russian Books of the 18th CenturyA collection of books printed in Russia from 1725-1801 based on Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka. Most titles were curated from the impressive digitization project, Natsional’naia Elektronnaia Biblioteka, operated by the Russian State Library. This collection is curated by the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) from the Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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