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Russian History Encyclopedias
- Cambridge Histories OnlineExcellent resource. Full text. Chapters as pdfs. Extremely high quality essays with rich footnotes and bibliography.
- A Companion to the Russian RevolutionPublication Date: 2020A compendium of original essays and contemporary viewpoints on the 1917 Revolution The historiography of the last two decades has challenged conceptions of the 1917 revolution as a monolithic entity-- the causes and meanings of revolution are many, as is reflected in contemporary scholarship on the subject. Presenting a wide range of contemporary perspectives, the Companion discusses topics including the dynamics of violence in war and revolution, Russian political parties, the transformation of the Orthodox church, Bolshevism, Liberalism, and more. Although primarily focused on 1917 itself, and the singular Revolutionary experience in that year.
- A Companion to Russian HistoryPublication Date: 2009Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia,
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian LiteraturePublication Date: 2011Provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume 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.
- Encyclopedia of Russian women's movementsPublication Date: 2001
- A Companion to Russian CinemaPublication Date: 2016Provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies.
- The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet UnionPublication Date: 2018This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and gender relations in the Soviet 'East' (Tatarstan), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Within the boundaries of the Russian Federation, the scope moves beyond the typically studied urban centres of Moscow and St Petersburg to examine the regions (Krasnodar, Novosibirsk), rural societies and village life. Its chapters examine the construction of gender identities and shifts in gender roles during the twentieth century, as well as the changing status and roles of women vis-a-vis men in Soviet political institutions, the workplace and society more generally.
- The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender HistoryISBN: 9780684325538Publication Date: 2019Provides a global view of the history of LGBTQ, covering significant figures and events worldwide. Wide-ranging in scope, this encyclopedia complements courses in a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, psychology, sociology and others.
- Modern Encyclopedia Russia and Soviet HistoryCall Number: Olin Library Reference DK14 .M68Publication Date: 1982Written in the Soviet period by Soviet historians.
- The Great Soviet EncyclopediaCall Number: Library Annex Oversize AE55 .B69 1973 +Publication Date: 1982Written in the Soviet era, translated into English. See Wikipedia for an overview of its history. This is a primary source.
- Encyclopedia of Russian HistoryPublication Date: 2003Providing a comprehensive discussion of Russia's people, politics, economics, religion and social systems, the "Encyclopedia of Russian History complements the study of comparative politics, world history, geography, literature, arts and culture and world cultures. With approximately 1,600 entries and 500 illustrations, this four-volume set spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation to the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.