Russian and East European Studies: Overview

Find published guides to archives on the Libraries shelves, in English and Russian, on a variety of topics around Russian and East European Studies. You can limit your search further by discipline or "classifications" such as history, literature, or economics. Links to the samples below take you to the records in Franklin Catalog

The Stalin Digital Archive is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP). It includes finding aids, digitized documents and images, a variety of media forms and  materials from the declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.

The contents of archive date from as early as 1889 to 1952.

Detailed archival facsimiles of primarily British involvement in the region. View all Cambridge Archive Editions

Thank you to Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, PhD candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, who has made significant contributions to the creation and editing of this guide.

These guides will link to a wide variety of resources across the many disciplines within Russian and East European Studies. You'll find that some resources are freely available on the web, others you will need to look up in Franklin to connect with Penn's licensed version, which will require pennkey/password authorization.

NOTE: Be sure to search using Romanized transliteration. See the American Library Association's Russian transliteration table -- www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf

Visit each link to learn more about its particular strengths and scope:

• University of Illinois at Urbana Champagn Slavic and East Europe Library 
• Slavic, East European & Central Asian Collection at Yale University
• Slavic and East European Studies at Indiana University 
• Davis Center Collection  |
• Harvard Slavic Collections at Widener Library  
• East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections 
• Stanford Slavic & Eastern European Studies Collections 
• New York Public Library Slavic and East European Collections 
• Amherst Center for Russian Culture  |
• Columbia Bakhmetoff Archive of Russian and East European Culture  
• OSU Hilandar Research Library  
• Russia and Eurasia Collections, Hoover Institution Library & Archives