Full guide to Russian and East European Studies
- Guide to Russian and East European Studiesbroader selection of materials both online and in print
Making Full Use of the Libraries even though you are away from campus
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Virtual Support Page
- Submit questions (see my contact information in column 3)
- chat with a librarian
- find out about access to electronic and physical books and journals,
- connect with tech support
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Access to physcial boks
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Request Digital Delivery -- book pages or chapters and journal articles
Selected books available from the Libraries
Dialogues: Ilya Kabakov & Vikor Pivovarov, Stories about Ourselves by Call Number: Fine Arts Library. N6999.K23 A4 2019 In print and onlineISBN: 9781978814929Publication Date: 2020Presents the work of artists, Kabakov and Pivovaro within the context of its original presentation. Includes illustrations, interviews with the artists, and translations of Russian text.
Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe by Call Number: Fine Arts Library. N6758 .A749 2018 In printISBN: 9781633450646Publication Date: 2018Takes the pivotal political changes between 1989 and 1991 to reflect on the effects that communism's disintegration across Central and Eastern Europe had on the art practices, criticism, and cultural production of the following decades.
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Keywords - subject terms
As you read and have discussions, take note of the vocabulary your are seeing and hearing. For instance, here are some terms that come from the reading "Vanguard of the Future: Mobility, Nationalism and the Postsocialist Condition"
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Guide URL
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Photograph by John Pavelka "Arch of Neutrality" in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan used under a CC 2.0 license
Finding books, journal articles, and other material
Franklin--the Libraries' catalog for books, music, film, newspapers, journals, primary source material and more.
- Sample Search (use "keyword expert" from the dropdown):
- ("eastern europe" OR "post soviet" OR "post communist") AND (travel OR migration) AND (culture OR art OR design)
- "eastern europe" AND ("post soviet" OR "post communist") AND (life OR geography OR people*)
ABSEES--American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
- Sample Searches:
- ("eastern europe" OR "post soviet" OR "post communist") AND (travel OR migration)
- ("eastern europe" OR "post soviet" OR "post communist") AND (culture OR art OR design OR expression OR creat*)>
East View Russia—Social Sciences--A selection of articles from 30 scholarly periodicals “of Russian”, translated into English. Dates: 2016-2020 (and continuing)>
- Sample searches:
- generation* AND (art OR creat* OR perspective)
JSTOR--full text to a wide range of journals across the disciplines. Some journals include the current 2020 issues, many have a slow rolling cut off date of 3-5 years back.
Project Muse--full text of contemporary journals in the social sciences and humanities
Articles+ --- the Libraries multidisciplinary database of journals, book chapters, newspapers and magazines. Includes access to full text and citations (request digital delivery)
Sample search: "post soviet" architectural style
ARTSTOR--Searchable database of more than 500,000 digital images and associated catalog data. Try searching "eastern europe" and set dates for 1991 (or later) - 2020 in advanced search.
GoogleScholar--This link will take you through the proxy. You can also set Google Scholar up to recognize you as a Penn Student all of the time, regardless of how you get there. Look for the three vertical lines in upper right hand corner. Click on them. Click on "settings", then click on "library links," Next find "University of Pennsylvania" in the drop down and hit return. You should be set!
Boolean diagram for the search: ("eastern europe" OR "post soviet" OR "post communist") AND (travel or migration [other synonyms?]) AND (culture OR art* Or design)
(. ) create a set in the same way a colored circle does in the diagram.
" " enclose a phrase and keep the terms adjacent
* serves to truncate a word. art can be art arts artist artisan artful artless ...
Subject Librarian Russian and East European Studies
Books from the catalog
Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. HN380.7.A8 M43 2012 In Print and OnlineISBN: 9780739174944Publication Date: 2012a collection of analyses of Eastern European media from scholars in the field.
The Roma Cafe: Human Rights and the Plight of the Romani People by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 074532052XPublication Date: 2004Analyzes the diverse problems facing Central and Eastern Europe's gypsy populations, including the largely unacknowledged legacy of the Roma Holocaust.
In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780520949478Publication Date: 2011In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik--traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. History, memoir, and political critique
Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 0415731313Publication Date: 2013The book examines different national cinemas and dissimilar cinematic modes - from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese independent cinema; from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of Mozambique - all formulated as within the postcommunist condition.
Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in a Post-Soviet Landscape by Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DK510.29 .R54 2010 in PrintISBN: 9781590513484Publication Date: 2010Powers talks with individuals from different corners of the former Soviet Union to present their stories.
