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General Information

Russia/Soviet Union:
Course Number: 680:121

Instructor Information:
Dr. Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski
(319) 273- 6951
email: alicja.boruta-sadkowski@uni.edu [4]

For website questions, please contact:
Rod Library Reference and Instructional Services-

Stan Lyle, Library Reference Librarian
(319) 273-2843, stanley.lyle@uni.edu [5]

Elaine Chen, Instructional Design Specialist
(319)-273-3021, elaine.chen@uni.edu [6]

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UNISTAR

Use UNISTAR to identify Rod Library books, government publications, and other sources on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

UNISTAR Subject searches for countries group together materials on particular aspects, such as: Actors - Soviet Union - Biography

Subject headings for:

• Russia [7]
• Soviet Union [8]

Other subject headings:

• Russia History [9]
• Soviet Union History [10]
• Russian Literature [11]
• Art, Russia [12]
• Icons, Russian [13]
• Socialist Realism in Art [14]
• Russia Folklore [15]
• Music Soviet Union [16]
• Cookery, Russian [17]
• Russian Wit and Humor [18]

UNISTAR Keyword searches can combine a country and very specific topic of interest, such as:

• russia* and health [19]
• russia* and (church or religion*) [20]
• russian customs [21]
• russia* folk music [22]
• (russia* or soviet) and motion pictures, limited to DVDs [23]

Reference Sources

These are examples of reference books that focus on Russia or the Soviet Union or that include sections on Russia or the Soviet Union.  Additional print and electronic reference sources focus on topics such as Russian theatre, literature, language, history, women's movements, and cinema.  Some of the sources in the Web Links section also include facts and figures about Russia and the Soviet Union.

UNISTAR Advanced searches can be done to find additional reference sources dealing with Russia or the Soviet Union:
(russia* or "soviet union*") [24] limited to location of Reference

The Gale Virtual Reference Library [25] contains some 140 reference sources, many of which include entries on Russia and the Soviet Union.

Art

• Oxford Art Online [26]

Biography

• A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988
  Reference CT 1213 V76 1989
• Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union: From the Romanov Dynasty to Vladimir Putin
  Reference DK 40 P36 2004
• Who's Who in Russia and the CIS Republics
  Reference CT 1203 W46 1995
• Who Was Who in the USSR; a Biographic Directory Containing 5,015 Biographies of Prominent Soviet Historical Personalities
  Reference CT 1212 I57 197

Culture

• Countries and Their Cultures
  Reference GN307 .C68 2001
• CultureGrams: the Nations Around Us
  Reference GT150 .C85
  Includes discussions of customs and courtesies such as greetings, gestures, visiting, and eating. Lifestyle section covers topics such as family, housing, dating, life cycle, diet, and recreation.
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture
  Reference DL 510.32 .E53 2007

History

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia
  Reference DK 14 E53 2004
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
  Reference DK 14 C35 1994
• Dictionary of the Russian Revolution
  Reference DK 265 D49 1989
• Encyclopedia of Russian History
  Reference DK 14 .E53 2004
• Encyclopedia of Russian History: From the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-Up of the U.S.S.R.
  Reference DK 36 P39 1993
• Imperial Russia: A Reference Handbook
  Reference DK 14 P39 2001
• The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History
  Reference DK 36 M55 1976
• Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
  Reference DK 36 B59 2004

Literature

• Another Rod Library document lists more Russian Literature [27] sources.
• Reference Guide to Russian Literature
  Reference PG 2940 R44 1998
• Handbook of Russian Literature
  Reference PG 2940 H29 1985
• Dictionary of Russian Women Writers
  Reference PG 2997 D53 1994
• The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature
  Reference PG 2940 M6
• The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia
  Reference PG 3328 A09L36 2004
• Dictionary of Literary Biography:
• Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.150
• Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose, Poetry and Drama(Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.198, v. 205
• Russian Literature in the Age of Realism (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.277
• Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.238
• Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890-1925 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.295
• Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.272
• Russian Prose Writers After World War II (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.302
• Twentieth-Century Russian émigré Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.317
• Russian Writers Since 1980 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
  Reference PS 121 D4 v.28

Music

• Oxford Music Online [28]

Russian Language Overview

• Languages Across Europe: Russia, Russky (BBC) [29]

Other:

• The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema
  Reference PN 1993.5 E2B44 2000
• Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movement
  Reference HQ 1665.15 E5 2001
• Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater
  Reference PN 2721 S46 2007
• Political Handbook of the World
  Reference JF 37 .P6 2007
• Soviet Cinema
  Reference PN 1998 A2B56

Databases @ UNI

Use these databases to look for articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals on Russia and the Soviet Union. Additional databases are listed by Field of Study on the Rod Library home [30] page under the heading, Journal and Magazine Articles (Panther Prowler). Databases can be seached simultaneously in groups or directly by clicking on the database title. Links from the Rod Library home page, under Databases A-Z, may be faster than the ones below.

LexisNexis Academic, World News Connection, and PressDisplay are good tools for finding newspaper articles on current events. Some Russian newspapers, such as the St. Petersburg Times [31], provide free access to some of their articles.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic [32]
  Best online source for current events worldwide!
• World Geography [33]
• MLA International Bibliography [34]
• Academic OneFile [35]
• Project Muse [36]
• PAIS International [37]
• Sociological Abstracts [38]
• Press Display [39]
  Great newspaper source for news around the world.
• Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) [40]
• Historical Abstracts [41]
• GEOBASE [42]
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide [43]
• Gender Studies Database [44]

Web Links

These are examples of web sites that focus on Russia or include sections on Russia.

• Portals to the World: Library of Congress [45]
  • Russia [46]- covers topics such as Culture, Language and Literature, and Recreation
• Russian Analytical Digest [47]
• News and Analysis - Radio Free Europe [48]
• RBC - RosBusinessConsulting [49]
• ROA Novosti - Russian News & Information Agency [50]
• BBC News Europe [51]
• Background Notes (U.S. State Deparment [52])
• CIA World Factbook [53]
• Council on Foreign Relations [54]
• Countries & Regions World Bank Group [55]
• SCOLA - Television From Around the World [56]

Research Guides

Rod Library publishes research guides in areas such as Russian Literature [27], International Studies [57], International Business and Economics [58], and Geography. The Geography guide is listed below.

• Plagiarism [59]
• Research Tips [60]