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European Histories-Primary Resources: Russian Histories

University of Pennsylvania Libraries have a rich collection of monumental histories from countries around the world. This guide focuses on Central and Eastern Europe.

Featured Resources

Memoirs:

  • Memories of Lenin<
    • Reminiscences of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya on her husband Vladimir Lenin, translated by E. Verney.
  • The Notebooks of Sologdin
    • Translated by John Moore.
  • Memoir of a Gulag actress
    • The memoirs of Tamara Petkevich, an imprisoned actress who spent seven years in a GULAC forced-labor camp. She documents four decades of Soviet life.Also available in print: LIBRA DK268.P44 A3 2010
  • Recollections of a Foreign Minister
    • The memoirs of Alexander Iswolsky, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1906-1910) and Russian Ambassador to France (1910-1917), translated by Charles Louis Seger.
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