This guide is an in-depth listing of Russian & Slavic Studies resources available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota
Reference and Background Info on Literature & Film
- Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new windowProvides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Includes Russian writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925, Twenty-first-century Central and Eastern European writers and more covering Russian and Slavic writers.
- Oxford Reference OnlineContains 100 language and subject dictionaries and other reference works, and searches across these resources. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
- Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema byCall Number: PN1998.2 .R578 2009ISBN: 9780810860728Publication Date: 2009
- Reference Guide to Russian Literature byCall Number: Quarto PG2940 .R43x 1998ISBN: 1884964109Publication Date: 1998
- The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 byCall Number: PN849.E9 S44x 2003ISBN: 0231114044Publication Date: 2003
- Russian Literature: a Very Short Introduction byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780192801449Publication Date: 2001Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. The book uses the figure of Pushkin--'the Russian Shakespeare'--as a recurring example, as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after him, whether they wrote prose or verse. It furthermore examines why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West. Also available in print.
Article Databases for Literature & Film
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- ABSEEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)Search for journal articles and book reviews on East-Central Europe, Russia, Soviet Union and the former Soviet republics, with a vast collection of indexed sources published in the United States, Canada and some European countries.
- Academic Search PremierA great place to start your research on any topic, search multidisciplinary, scholarly research articles. This database provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals, popular magazines and other resources. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
- Central and Eastern European Online LibrarySpecialized and comprehensive collection of full text indexed documents in the fields of Humanities and Social Science publications from and about Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Russian, Eastern European/Slavic, English and other languages.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals DatabaseInternational Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) inlcudes coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs.
- Film and Television Literature Index with Full-TextSearch articles on film and television studies' topics including theory, preservation, restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews from "Variety" back to 1914 and more.
- MLA International BibliographyUse the MLA International Bibliography to find scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. This index has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926.
- Libraries SearchSearch the University of Minnesota Libraries to find books, scholarly journal articles, news, magazines, media, and other items in the University's collection. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Books on Literature & Film
A selection of companions and general surveys and histories of literature and film in Eastern Europe and Russia. Use Libraries Search to find more and other relevant books.
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture byCall Number: eBookISBN: 1107002524Publication Date: 2012The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts.
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780521875356Publication Date: 2011This volume provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. It concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova. Also available in print (PG3017 .C36 2011)
- The Cambridge History of Russian Literature byCall Number: eBookISBN: 0521415543Publication Date: 1992An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union.
- A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas byCall Number: eBookISBN: 1444337254Publication Date: 2012Traces the history of Eastern European cinemas and offers an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures. Features consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as Albanian and Baltic cinemas, popular genre films, cross-national distribution and aesthetics, animation and documentary. Includes discussion of such films as Taxidermia, ElPerro Negro, 12:08 East of Bucharest Big Tõll, and Breakfast on the Grass and explores the work of directors including Tamás Almási, Walerian Borowczyk, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Żuławski, and Karel Vachek amongst many others.
- A History of Russian Cinema byCall Number: PN1993.5.R9 B48 2009ISBN: 1845202147Publication Date: 2009A History of Russian Cinema is the first complete history from the beginning of film to the present day and presents an engaging narrative of both the industry and its key films in the context of Russia's social and political history.
- Leo Tolstoy: a Very Short Introduction byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780198813934Publication Date: 2019In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy's work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, sheanalyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy's art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy's work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today. Also available in print.
- The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781280178481Publication Date: 2001-09-01The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also avaialble in print (PG2951 .R68 2001)
- Russian Literature: a Very Short Introduction byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780192801449Publication Date: 2001Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. The book uses the figure of Pushkin--'the Russian Shakespeare'--as a recurring example, as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after him, whether they wrote prose or verse. It furthermore examines why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West. Also available in print.
- Libraries SearchSearch the University of Minnesota Libraries to find books, scholarly journal articles, news, magazines, media, and other items in the University's collection. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Catalog Searches
Below is a selection of catalog searches for collections. Scroll further down for appropriate centuries or other categories. For more specific searches (exact titles, authors, or criticism, etc.) use Libraries Search.
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Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Death of IlyichDeveloped by UMN Faculty member, Dr. Gary Jahn. Includes English translation and English glosses and annotations to Russian original.
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