Selected Internet Resources

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Reading Cyrillic on the WWW Other Libraries with Major Collections Academic Departments and Programs Associations, Institutes and Organizations Dictionaries and other Language Resources Archives & Archival Projects/Genealogy Sites Exhibits Journals, Databases, and Indexes Literature and Other Works Maps News Resources Women's Studies WWW Gateways Additional Resources (by area and country)

Reading Cyrillic on the WWW

• Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape browser
• Fingertip Software - fonts, software and keyboards for Cyrillic (Belarussian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian) as well as Baltic & Central European languages.
• SovInformBureau: Russify Everything

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Other Libraries with Major Collections

• The British Library, Slavonic and East European Collections
• Columbia University Libraries: Russian, Eurasian & East European studies
• The European Library - A Comprehensive guide to European Libraries
• Harvard University's Widener Library Slavic Collection
• Hoover Institution Library's Russian/CIS Collection
• Indiana University's Slavic Collection
• The Library of Congress European Reading Room
• New York Public Library's Slavic and Baltic Division
• Ohio State University's Hilandar Research Library Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
• Princeton University's Russian Studies & Slavic Resources
• Stanford University's Slavic and Eastern European Studies
• University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
• University of Alberta's Ukrainian Studies Resources
• University of Calgary's Slavic Studies Collection
• University of California, Berkeley, Library's Slavic and East European Studies
• University of Cambridge's SPRILIB Russian North - search this database of publications concerning northern Russia and Siberia
• University of Chicago Library's Slavic and East European Collection
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Slavic and East European Library
• University of Kansas Slavic and East European Collections
• University of Michigan Graduate Library, Slavic and East European Division
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Slavic and East European Collections
• University of Pittsburgh's Russian and East European Collection

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Academic Departments and Programs

• Bucknell University's Russian Studies Department
• Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
• Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center
• Indiana University's Slavic Department
• Ohio State University, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
• Russian Studies On The Web (Roman Leibov)
• School of Slavonic, Central and East European - Glasgow, Scotland
• Stanford University's Center for Russian & East European Studies
• University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies
• University of Alberta's Slavic and East European Studies
• University of California, Berkeley's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department
• Univeristy of Oregon, Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC)
• University of Pennsylvania's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• University of Pittsburgh's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• University of Texas at Austin's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• University of Washington's Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center
• Yale University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

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Associations, Institutes, and Organizations

• AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)
• AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
• AWSS (The Association of Women in Slavic Studies)
• BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies)
• BESEDA (Bibliothécaires en Etudes Slaves et Documentalistes Associés) - Association of Slavic Studies Librarians (French)
• Bulgarian Studies Association
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - supports programs on Russian and Eurasian affairs. Site includes policy papers and other publications, transcripts of speeches by top officials, and a special section on Russian elections and politics.
• Carnegie Moscow Center - contains full-text papers and monographs, mostly in Russian.
• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of The John Hopkins University
• East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections
• International Higher Education Support Program - offers information for Fellows Programs for teaching and program development in the social sciences in the Newly Independent States, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
• Council for European Studies at Columbia University
• COSEELIS (Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services)
• ESSA (Early Slavic Studies Association)
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting - news reports on the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
• IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) - IREX programs, grants, fellowships and other resources.
• Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV)
• Sabre Foundation - provides information on donating books to Eastern Europe and Russia.
• Slavic and East European Folklore Association (SEEFA)
• Slavic and East European Section (SEES)

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Dictionaries and other Language Resources

Archives and Archival Projects/Genealogy Sites

• ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia - searchable database of archival repositories in the Russian Federation.
• EastEuropeGenWeb
• Federation of East European Family History Societies
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies - KGB documents available in pdf format.
• Main Ukrainian Archives' Addresses - see also Western Ukraine and South-eastern Poland.
• NYG&B: A Selected Bibliography for Eastern European Research
• Openness in Russia and Eastern Europe Project - "multinational undertaking that includes collaborative investigations of contemporary history, joint publications, multinational conferences, technical assistance, training and seed funding, in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow, Bucharest, Sofia, Prague, Potsdam and elsewhere."
• Poland Border Surnames - links for those researching genealogy in the former historical borders of Poland including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moravia, Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, and East Prussia.
• Polish Archives - links to archival sources around the world.
• Polish Genealogical Society of America: Archives in Poland
• Polish Manuscripts in Vilnius Collections - searchable database containing information on 1561 sets of manuscripts in five Vilnius collections.
• Researching Russian Roots: Archives
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress) - "the documents that the Library of Congress has here chosen from the 500 made available from the Russian archives cover the entire range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991. They include material from archives that had been key working files of the Communist rulers until August 1991: the archives of the Central Committee, the Presidential archive, and the KGB."
• Russian Archives Online - collection of photographs, films, audio clips and transcripts.
• Russian/CIS Collection of the Hoover Institution
• Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State
• Soviet Archives - Russian documents available in pdf format.
• Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP)
• Yale Russian Archive Project (YRAP)

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Exhibits

• Alexander Palace - Everyday life in a Romanov Palace
• Beyond the Fall: the former Soviet Bloc in Transition 1989-1999 - annotated photographs from a TIME magazine project.
• Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era - titles from McGill University's collection of more than 350 Soviet children's books published in the 1920s and 30s. Organized into eight themes.
• The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress) - photographic survey of eleven regions of the Russian Empire taken between 1909-1915.
  
• Georgia Revealed: Searching for the Soul of the Caucasus - interactive website about the environment and culture of Georgia accompanied by beautiful photographs, streaming audio and video, daily journal entries and expedition maps.
• In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures (Library of Congress)
• NEWSEUM: The Commissar Vanishes - depicts the works of photo censors in the Soviet Union between 1929-1953. Images of people who fell out of favor with Joseph Stalin were routinely removed from the Soviet photographic archives.
• Prasa w Internecie - Digitalization of two serials: Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1859-1865) and Chimera (1901-1907).
• The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books - selections from a 1997/98 exhibit at the New York Public Library.
• The Ukrainian Museum in New York - permanent exhibits and collections
• Yannis Kontos - photographs covering the war in Kosovo, the fall of Milosevic, Yugoslavian children's institution, and more. Not for the squeamish.
• Gallery-A - Features a variety of fine art exhibits

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Journals, Databases, and Indexes

• The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia - some past issues available online (1983-onwards)
• Balkanistica
• Center for Research Libraries' CIS Serials Database - search the holdings of CRL. Materials can be borrowed through interlibrary loan.
• Eastern European Constitutional Review
• The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
• Journal of Slavic Linguistics - abstracts and table of contents; full text of Reflections articles.
• Katalog Czasopism Kulturalnych - catalogue of Polish socio-cultural journals and magazines.
• The Russian Review - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
• The Slavic and East European Journal - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
• Slavic Review - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
• Soviet Studies - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
• Transitions Online
• The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (French)
• MLA Bibliography - searches can be limited by language. (access requires Yale IP)
• Online Databases of Russian Publications - 7 fulltext databases covering newspapers, military periodicals, parliamentary publications, Russian legislation, and social science and humanities journals. (access requires Yale IP)
• Periodicals Contents Index - searches can be limited by language. (access requires Yale IP)
• RussGUS - "bibliographic database of German language materials on Russia, the Soviet Union and its successor states.The database covers the period since 1974 and consists now of about 170.000 records."
• Vreme News Digest at Ruters University Library
• Yale Collection of Electronic Journals - browse or search for electronic journals available to the Yale community.

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Literature and Other Works

• The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (access requires Yale IP)
• Czech and Slovak Literature Resources
• Dostoevskii's three journals: Vremia, Epokha and Grazhdanim - full text.
• Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature - digitized classic texts of Ukrainian prose.
• Eugene's Electronic Library - links to works by Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin and more.
• Lithuanian Poetry
• Maksim Moshkow's library
• Modern Russian Writers
• PolishWriting - searchable database of English translations of Polish prose and poetry, with extracts of key works.
• Polska Bibliografia Literacka - search the years 1988 and 1989 as well as a retrospective index of all authors ever featured. Print publications cover 1944-1988 (SML, Stacks, Yale Classification X697 +P76).
• Skarbnica Literatury Polskiej
• Tolstoy Library
• Ukrainian Literature

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Maps

• CIA World Factbook Reference Maps
• Oddens' Bookmarks of Maps and Atlases
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin) - modern and historical maps.
• United Nations Cartographic Section (maps are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader)

News Resources

Women's Studies

• Network of East-West Women
• Open Women Line - articles and links for womens' studies in Russia. Russian version updated more frequently than English one.
• Refugee Women of the Balkans - special issue of The Anthropology of East Europe Review (1995 13:1).
• Russian and Soviet women's collections - bibliographic guide to works held in the British Library.
• Russian Feminism Resources
• Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership - mostly a list of names; photographs and biographical information available for some.

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WWW Gateways

• Erik Herron's Guide to Post-Communist States on the Web
• CREECA Web - a Guide to Russian, East European and Central Asian Collections (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• REENIC - Russian and East European Network Information Center (University of Texas-Austin)
• REESweb : Russian and East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
• NUPI Centre for Russian Studies
• Resources - Russian Study Program (Bucknell University)
• Slavophilia - Slavic and East European Resources

Additional Resources, by Area and Country

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General Resources

• Central European University Press
• CIA World Factbook - provides data on population, government, economy, etc. for each country
• Countrywatch.com - political, economic, and business information. Some sections for subscribers only; access by Yale IP recognition.
• Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
• EIU Country Reports - analyses of political and economic trends in nearly 200 countries. (access requires Yale IP)
• The European Library - A comprehensive guide to European Libraries
• European Political Resources - arranged by country.
• The History Guy: New and Recent Conflicts of the World - synopsis of conflicts with related links.
• The Libary of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks Series
  • Afghanistan Country Study
• Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter - provides news and analysis, lists of new & forthcoming publications, compilation of articles from various sources, abstracts of doctoral thesis, and related links.
• Search Engine Colossus - directory of search engines arranged by country.
• Search Engines Worldwide - yet another directory of search engines arranged by country.
• U.S. Dept of State: Europe and Eurasia - latest news plus links to related documents and resources.

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Albania

• Albania - Land of the Eagles - general information
• Albanian Parliament - in Albanian and English.

Armenia

• Armenia Resource Page
• Embassy of the Republic of Armenia (Washington, DC)

Azerbaijan

• Azerbaijan.com - latest news and more.
• Azerbaijan Internet Links - links to country & city information, maps, and the Armenian - Azerbaijan conflict.
• Azerbaijan Resource Page - contains numerous links as well as suggested readings.
• Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Washington, DC)

Belarus

• National Centre of Legal Information - includes a searchable legal database (in Russian) and English translations of legislative acts.
• National Library of Belarus
• Virtual Guide to Belarus
• WWW-VL Belarusian History Index

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Bosnia-Hercegovina

• BosNet
• Domovina Net
• Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Washington, DC)
• OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (Organization for Securityand Cooperation in Europe)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

• Balkan Info: Bulgarian Room
• Bulgaria Online
• Embassy of Bulgaria (Washington, DC)
• President of the Republic of Bulgaria

Central Asia

• Asian American Net: Central Asia - resources for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
• Central Asian Studies World Wide Website - contains comprehensive information about institutions, resources, scholars and other information related to the study of Central Asia
  • Dissertations in Central Asian Studies
• Central Eurasia Project Resource Page - latest news and articles plus country resource pages.

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Croatia

• Croatica Net
• Croatia Bibliography -
  • Series A, Books ( years 1999 - 2003 )
  • Series B, Articles in Journals and Proceedings ( years 1998 - 2001 )
  • Series C, Serials ( years 1997 - 2000 )
• Croatian Bureau of Statistics - latest statistical figures available online. In Croatian and English.
• Croatian Tourist Information Service
• Embassy of the Republic of Croatia (Washington, DC)
• Vlada Republike Hrvatske - Government of the Republic of Croatia
• WWW.HR Directory - general information on culture, politics, geography, cities, and history. Includes a directory of Croatian WWW servers.
• Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Czech Republic

• Czech Center New York - a non-profit organization offering cultural events and programs as well as a lending library.
• Czech Theatre Web Site
• Embassy of the Czech Republic (Washington, DC)
• Parliament of the Czech Republic - webpages available in English, Czech, French and German.

Estonia

• Embassy of Estonia (Washington, DC)
• Estonia-Wide Web
• The Estonian Institute
• Institute of Baltic Studies
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs - webpages available in several languages.
• Old Estonian newspapers

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Finland

• Embassy of Finland (Washington, DC)
• The Finnish Government - information on the government and its ministries.
• Virtual Finland
• Helsinki Univeristy Library - The National Library of Finland

Finno-Ugric peoples

• Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples

Georgia

• Embassy Of Georgia (Washington, DC)
• Georgia Net
• Georgia Resource Page

Hungary

• British Library's "Hungary 1956" a catalogue compiled by Bridget Guzner and Ildiko Wollner was first published in 1997.
• Embassy of Hungary (Washington, DC)
• Homepage of the Hungarian Government - in Hungarian and English.
• Hungarian Home Page - provides general information as well as annotated links to other websites. The Hungarian version is more up-to-date than the English version.
• Hungarian Publishing Houses

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Kazakhstan

• Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan in New York
• Cultural Heritage of Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan Resource Page

Kyrgyzstan

• Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic (Washington, DC)
• Kyrgyzstan Resource Page

Latvia

• Embassy of Latvia (Washington, DC)
• Latnet Guide to Latvia
• Republic of Latvia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - in Latvian and English.

Lithuania

• Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania (Washington, DC)
• Lithuanian Center of Cultural Heritage
• Lithuanian Home Page
• Lithuanian Parliament

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Macedonia

• Government of the Republic of Macedonia
• Macedonia: Country Background and Recent Conflict - a pdf-formatted report from the Congressional Research Service.
• Ministry of Information
• .mk - the Macedonian Directory

Moldova

• MoldData, Moldova Web Directory
• Republica Moldova, official site

Poland

• Directory of Polish Libraries
• EBIB - Elektroniczna Biblioteka - links to Polish libraries's webpages as well as resources for librarians.
• Embassy of Poland (Washington, DC)
• Handlowa Ksiega Adresowa Polski i Gdanska, a 1923 commercial directory
• Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich: Centre for Eastern Studies
• Poland Home Page
• Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
• Polish Official Statistics
• Polska w Internecie
• Prasa w Internecie - Digitization of two Polish serials: Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1859-1865) and Chimera (1901-1907).
• Spis Abonentow Warszawskiej Sieci Telefonow, a white pages directory of Warsaw from the eve of WWII
• US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis 1980-1981 - full text publication from the Center for the Study of Intelligence.
• Wirtualna Polska

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Romania

• Embassy of Romania (Washington, DC)
• Government of Romania - in Romanian and English.
• Romanian Directory
• Romania Factbook

Russia

• ACRL's Internet Resources for Russian Studies - extensive annotated links.
• Electronic Library of dissertations
• Embassy of the Russian Federation (Washington, DC)
• Garant - provides Russian legal documents and English translations for sale.
• Meeting of Frontiers - "bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest." Includes digital versions of manuscripts, maps, films, photographs, sound recordings, and printed material. From the Library of Congress.
• Moscow City Homepage
• Museums of Russia
• Open Russian Electronic Library
• Russia on the Net
• Russia Profile
• Russian Government Homepage
• Russian Patent and Trademark Office - in Russian and English. Documents are in Russian only.
• Russian Reference Works
• St. Petersburg Web
• Textology News

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Russian History Resources

• Alexander Palace - Everyday life in a Romanov Palace
• Altai Regional Server of Historical Research and Education - may be slow to load. Available in Russian and English.
• Annals of Communism - series of books with "selected documents concerning the history of Soviet and international communism from Russian state and party archives. " Some books will be available online after the publication of the print version.
• The Avalon Project: Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States-1918-Russia
• H-Russia Discussion Network - for the scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history.
• Illustrated history of Russia and the Former USSR
• Otechestvennaia Istoriia - links to Russian-language history and map sites.
• Russian Reference Works by Wojciech Zalewski
• The Russian Revolution - links to quotes, maps, important dates, translation of Trotsky's book, biographies, and commentaries.
• UNC's Research Guide to Soviet History

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Serbia and Montenegro

• The Archives of Serbia and Montenegro - includes scanned images of selected documents and maps.
• Development Fund of the Republic of Montenegro
• Digital Resources of the National Library of Serbia
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Montenegro.con
• National Bibliography : Serbia
• Republic of Serbia
• Republic of Montenegro
• Serbian National Library

Slovak Republic

• Embassy of the Slovak Republic (Washington, DC)
• Slovaks and Slovakia Home Page

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Slovenia

• Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia (Washington, DC)
• Republic of Slovenia
• Slovenia Resources

Tajikistan

• Tajikistan Resource Page
• The Tajikistan Update - includes a bibliography on the history of Tajikistan, articles about Tajikistan, news resources, and cultural resources.

Turkmenistan

• Embassy of Turkmenistan (Washington, DC)
• Turkmenistan Resource Page

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Ukraine

• BRAMA - Gateway Ukraine
• Embassy of Ukraine (Washington, DC)
• Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Library of the Lviv Theological Academy
• Online directory of library homepages in Ukraine
• Taras Kuzio.net: Ukrainian Studies - offers an overview of Ukrainian studies in North America and a bibliography of scholarly publications on contemporary Ukraine.
• The Ukraine List - a listserv run by Dominique Arel at Brown University (Subscribe by emailing to: darel@brown.edu)
• Ukraine.com
• Ukrainian Library Association
• Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University - provides information about the institute and descriptions of its collections. Includes a bibliography of English-language publications.
• Vernadsky National Library

Uzbekistan

• Consulate General of Uzbekistan in New York
• Government of Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan Resource Page
• Uzbekistan Advantour - travel information and guide

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Yugoslavia: Conflicts and Politics

• BBC News: Yugoslavia Elections
• Bosnia References and Resources - articles, links, and bibliography compiled by the New York Times.
• BosniaLINK - US Department of Defense site about military activities in Bosnia.
• Bosnian Institute - offers a searchable bibliographic database of books on Bosnia. Includes a bi-monthly magazine, Bosnia Report.
• CNN.com In-depth special: Uprising in Serbia
• Domovina Net - news articles and video images available in several languages.
• INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict in Kosovo
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting - news reports with related links and book titles.
• Justice for Kosovo: Massacre at Cuska - includes maps, photographs and interviews with militia & survivors.
• OSCE Mission to Kosovo (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
• United Nations Kosovo Home Page
• US State Department's Kosovo Page
• War Among the Yugoslavs - special issue of The Anthropology of East Europe Review (1993 11:1-2).

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