Research Guides: Russian Collection Research Guide: Russian History

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OneSearch searches almost everything in UHM Library's collection. It searches through multiple databases and the library catalog at one time. Results include books, articles, conference papers, maps, government documents, DVDs, archives & manuscripts, and more.

Select Databases Relevant to Russian History

ABSEEES (American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
NOTE: ABSEES became ABSEEES (American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) on June 30, 2021.
Covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) has been compiled continuously since 1956 under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and with the support at various times of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. State Department's Title VIII program, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The bibliography is currently based at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR
The Library has purchased access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I-XV collections, Life Sciences collection, and Business IV. These collections provide full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Project Muse
Access to selected full text of approximately 250 scholarly journals published by university presses. The publishers involved are Johns Hopkins University Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Most journals included are in arts and humanities.

Select Print Journals

Kritika
Call Number: Main (Library Use Only) Z2506.K7

Publication Date: 1964-1984
The Russian Review
Call Number: Main (Library Use Only) DK1.R82

Publication Date: 1975-2006
Sibirica
Call Number: Main (Library Use Only) DK751.S422

Publication Date: 1993-present
Slavic Review
Call Number: Main (Library Use Only) D377.A1 S52

Publication Date: 1964-1928

Select Online Journals

Ab Imperio
Publication Date: 2000-present
Kritika
Publication Date: 2000-present
Russian History
Publication Date: 1974-present
The Russian Review
Publication Date: 1941-present
Sibirica
Publication Date: 2002-present
Slavic Review
Publication Date: 1961-2017
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
Publication Date: 1974-present

Library of Congress Call Numbers

Books in UH Libraries are shelved by Library of Congress call numbers. Most of the Russian Collection books and serials can be found on the second floor of Hamilton Library.

DK1 - DK949.5: History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
DK33 - DK 35.5 Ethnography
DK36 - DK293 History
     DK70 - DK112.42 History: Earliest to 1613
          DK70 - DK99.7 Rus'
          DK99.8 - DK112.42 Muscovy
     DK112.8 - DK264.8 House of Romanov, 1613-1917
     DK265 - DK265.95 Revolution, 1917-1921
     DK266 - DK292 Soviet Regime, 1918-1991
     DK293 1991-
DK500 Regions Not Limited to One Republic, A-Z
DK501 - DK949.5 Local History and Description
     DK503 - DK503.95 Estonia
     DK504 - DK504.95 Latvia
     DK505 - DK505.95 Lithuania
     DK507 - DK507.95 Belarus. Byelorussian S.S.R. White Russia
     DK508 - DK508.95 Ukraine
     DK509 Southern Soviet Union
     DK509.1 - DK509.95 Moldova. Moldovan S.S.R. Bessarabia-
     DK510 - DK651 Russia (Federation). Russian S.F.S.R.
          DK541 - DK579 Saint Petersburg. Leningrad. Petrograd.
          DK588 - DK609 Moscow
     DK670 - DK679.5 Georgia (Republic)
     DK680 - DK689.5 Armenia (Republic)
     DK690 - DK699.5 Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan S.S.R.
     DK751 - DK781 Siberia and the Russian Far East
     DK845 - DK860 Soviet Central Asia. West Turkestan
     DK901 - DK909.5 Kyrgyzstan. Kirghiz S.S.R. Kirghizia
     DK921 - DK929.5 Tajikistan. Tajik S.S.R. Tadzhikistan
     DK931 - DK939.5 Turkmenistan
     DK941 - DK949.5 Uzbekistan