Slavic & East European Studies

Special Area Materials for Research

The UCLA Library contains a number of important collections in print, microform, and CD-ROM for conducting research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Some of these collections have titles which are not always fully indicative of their content. A selection of these primary research materials is given below. Check library catalogs for the exact location of the materials and any accompanying user guides. If there is an accompanying printed guide, it is usually shelved in Microform & Media Services (M&MS) on the 2nd floor of YRL, even though the main set may be housed elsewhere. Materials on microfilm or microfiche are located in M&MS or SRLF. CD-ROMs will be found either in M&MS, in the stacks, in SRLF, or in Reference and Instructional Services. Assistance is available for locating these materials.

Contents:

Linguistic and Literary Texts

History and Politics

• Diplomatic Correspondence
• Materials on the Russian Revolution
• Governmental Reports and Documents
• Other

The Arts

Linguistic and Literary Texts

Russian Futurism, 1910-16; Poetry and Manifestos

(54 fiche - PG 3235 F8 R87 1976 - M&MS)

"...the most complete collection of primary material on Russian Futurism before the Revolution. The majority of these titles were reproduced from copies in two large private collections in England and France."
Guide: PG 3235 F8 R87 1976 Guide, in M&MS

Church Slavonic and Russian Hagiographies

(647 fiche - BX 596 C48 1989 - M&MS)

A collection of hagiographies; translations of paterika and hagiographies, reference works, etc.
Guide: BX 596 C48 1989 Guide, in M&MS

Russian Books Before 1701

(342 reels - SRLF)

Reproductions of nearly 500 books printed in Russia before Peter the Great. Titles recorded in Zernova's Knigi kirillovskoi pechati izdannye v Moskve v XVI-XVII vekakh.
Guide: PG 3223 R87 1984 Guide, in M&MS

Eighteenth Century Russian Publications

(microfilm - PG 3200 A2 - M&MS)

"...Items selected from the Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII-ogo veka". This continuing collection now contains over 800 reels.
Guide: PG 3200 A2, in M&MS

The Complete Workbooks of Alexander Pushkin

(continuing - Dept. of Spec. Coll.)

Facsimile edition of the 18 handwritten working notebooks of A.S. Pushkin, never before published, containing both draft and final versions of many of his major works

The Slavonic Manuscripts of Saint Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon) on Mount Athos

(28 reels - SRLF)

A collection of rare Slavonic manuscripts compiled by Dean S. Worth and Anthony-Emil N. Tachaios
Guide: Z 6605 S62 H33 1981 Guide, in M&MS

The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures (MESBEL)

Former title: The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literatures (MERSL)

(10+ vols. - YRL Ref: PG 2940 M719)

This set attempts to bring together the scattered existing materials on literary figures, national literatures and related disciplines. It covers many aspects of Russian and Soviet cultural life which relate to literature and includes major emigre writers, past and present. While the emphasis is still on Russian, more attention is now given to the literatures of newly independent nations, including those of the Turkic, Armenian, Georgian, and Baltic peoples.

Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopisei

(Print version: *DK 3 R92p continuing; Microfiche: DK 3 R92p /vv. 1-32/, in M&MS). A collection of chronicles and other Old Russian texts; titles of individual documents are given below, followed by their volume number in the collection, in parentheses; editions for print (P) and microfiche (M) are given following the volume number.

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History and Politics

• Diplomatic correspondence

  Diplomatic Correspondence of British Ministers to the Russian Court, 1704-1776

  (105 fiche - DA 47.65 D56 - M&MS)
  Guide: DA 47.65 D56 Index, in M&MS

  The diplomatic dispatches were originally published in Sbornik imperatorskago russkago istoricheskago obshchestva. The letters, mostly in English, contain information about the relations of two of the major powers of Europe, and therefore indirectly about international relations during the 18th century.

  British Diplomatic Blue Books: The Russian Empire,1801-1899

  (228 fiche - DA 47.65 G795 1975 - M&MS)
  Guide: Z 2009 V86b, in YRL Reference & Instructional Services

  Consists of dispatches and reports that arrived at the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. These Parliamentary Papers were presented to the House of Commons and contain materials on the Napoleonic Wars (1806-1816), Turkish affairs and the Crimean War (1828-1880), Polish affairs (1831-1898), Central Asia (1873-1895), the Hague Conference (1899), and other events.

  Papers of Queen Victoria on Foreign Affairs: Russia & Eastern Europe, 1846-1900

  (4 reels - SRLF)

  This part of the Royal Archives collection on Russia deals with Russia's relations with France and Germany, the complications of the Sino-Japanese war and the purchase of Alaska.
  Guide: DA 550 V528 1990 Guide, in M&MS

  Dispatches from U.S. Ministers to Russia, 1808-1906

  (66 reels - SRLF)

  Russia in Transition: The Diplomatic Papers of David Rowland Francis, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1916-18

  (11 reels - SRLF)

  Chronicles American involvement in and perceptions of the Russian Revolution through reports and letters to the State Department and to friends and associates in America.
  Guide: E 183.8 S65 F73 1985 Guide, in M&MS

  British Foreign Office Russia Correspondence, 1883-1948

  (988 reels - SRLF)

  "The records of the London Files containing material received from abroad or from London. In addition the collection includes public proclamations by various national leaders, governments and organizations, communications with foreign governments, pertinent publications, personal requests made of the Foreign Office and records of parliamentary questions directed to the Foreign Office."
  Guides, all in M&MS:
  DA 47.65 G7 Index 1883-1905
  DA 47.65 G7 Index 1906-1917
  DA 47.65 G7 Index 1918-1921
  DA 47.65 G7 Index 1922-1929
  DA 47.65 G7(Index)1930-1940
  

  U.S. Confidential Diplomatic Post Records; Russia and the Soviet Union, 1914-1941; Parts 1-3

  (145 reels - SRLF)

  Covers congresses and conferences, commerce, relations of states and the internal affairs of state.
  Guide: DK 254 C66 Guide I, II, III, all in M&MS

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• Materials on the Russian Revolution

  Newspapers from the Russian Revolutionary Era

  (455 reels - M&MS and SRLF)

  The collection is based on the holdings of Columbia University's Lehman Library. It consists of Russian and foreign newspapers covering almost every facet of the Russian revolution, providing local and outside views of the turbulent era.
  Newspapers are cataloged individually.

  Russian Revolutionary Literature

  (47 reels - DK 188 H261r - M&MS)

  The collection includes 1170 titles from Harvard's Houghton Library and other sources. It covers the period beginning with the 1825 Decembrist uprising to 1917 and beyond. It contains books, pamphlets, journals, ephemeral and anonymous works. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection."
  Guide: DK 188 H261r Guide, in M&MS

  Russian Revolutionary Pamphlets, 1860-1923

  Reproductions of 243 pamphlets unique to the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics)

  (323 fiche - DK 188 R922 1988 - M&MS)
  Guide: *DK 188 R922 1988 Guide, in M&MS

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• Governmental Reports and Documents

  U.S. State Department Records/Files Relating to Internal Affairs:
  Primarily instructions and dispatches from U.S. diplomatic and consular staff regarding political, economic, military, social and other internal conditions and events.

  Czechoslovakia, 1910-44 (32 reels - SRLF) Guide: DB 2186 R43 1982 Guide, in M&MS

  Czechoslovakia, 1945-49 (17 reels - SRLF)

  Czechoslovakia, 1950-54 (15 reels - SRLF)

  Czechoslovakia, 1955-59 (8 reels - SRLF)

  Poland, 1916-44 (75 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 4397 R43 Guide, in M&MS

  Poland, 1945-49 (29 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 4429 U55 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  Poland, 1950-54 (17 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 4429 U552 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  Poland, 1955-59 (16 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 4429 U554 1987 Guide, in M&MS

  [Because the correspondence with U.S. diplomatic and consular offices in Imperial Russia between 1910-1917 was limited, and formal relations between the U.S. and Russia after the November Revolution were discontinued, most of the dispatches reproduced in the following six sets came from diplomatic and consular offices in the Baltic States, in the Scandinavian countries, Poland, Germany and China.]

  Russia/Soviet Union, 1910-29 (177 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 246 U55 1960 Guide, in M&MS

  Soviet Union, 1930-39 (75 reels - SRLF)

  Soviet Union, 1940-44 (34 reels - SRLF)

  Soviet Union, 1945-49 (39 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3U6 1984 Guide, in M&MS

  Soviet Union, 1950-54 (38 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3U6 1985 Guide, in M&MS

  Soviet Union, 1955-59 (46 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3U6 1989 Guide, in M&MS

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  Ukraine, 1918-49 (6 reels - DK 508.79 U55 1984 - M&MS)

  Yugoslavia, 1910-29 (27 reels - SRLF) Guide: DR 1273 U6 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  Yugoslavia, 1930-44 (28 reels - SRLF)

  Yugoslavia, 1945-49 (18 reels - SRLF) Guide: DR 1299 U55 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  Yugoslavia, 1950-54 (23 reels - SRLF) Guide: DR 1299 U552 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  Yugoslavia, 1955-59 (18 reels - SRLF) Guide: DR 1299 U554 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  U.S. State Department Files Relating to Political Relations:

  Eastern Europe, 1930-39 (46 reels - SRLF)

  Eastern Europe, 1940-44 (5 reels - SRLF)

  U.S. State Department Files Relating to Political Relations Between Russia/Soviet Union and Other States:

  1910-29 (20 reels - SRLF)
  1930-39 (14 reels - SRLF)
  1940-44 (4 reels - SRLF)
  

  U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Political Relations Between the U.S. and Russia/Soviet Union:

  Before 1917 the documents are mostly instructions to and dispatches from diplomatic and consular officials. As there were no American diplomatic representatives in Moscow after 1917, most records originated from Vladivostok during the years 1917-1919 and from American diplomatic posts in the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Germany and China during the years 1920-29

  1910-29 (7 reels - SRLF) Guide: E 183.8 S65 U57 1960 sup., in M&MS
  1930-39 (3 reels - SRLF)
  1940-44 (1 reel - SRLF)

  U.S. State Department Confidential Central Files--The Soviet Union: Foreign Affairs

  1945-49 (10 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3 U6 1984 Guide, in M&MS

  1950-54 (12 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3 U6 1985 Guide, in M&MS

  1955-59 (15 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3 U6 1989 Guide, in M&MS

  U.S. State Department Records Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Yugoslavia:

  1910-29 (1 reel - SRLF) Guide: DR 1273 U63 1986 Guide
  Dispaches from and instructions to diplomatic and consular officials

  U.S. State Department Records Relating to Political Relations Between Yugoslavia and Other States:

  1910-1929 (9 reels - SRLF) Guide: DR 1273 U62 1986 Guide, in M&MS

  U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Internal Affairs of Montenegro and to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Montenegro:

  1910-29 (2 reels - SRLF)

  U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Internal Affairs of Serbia and to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Serbia:

  1910-29 (3 reels - SRLF)

  OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research Reports:
  Consist of monographs and reports prepared by leading scholars for the Office of Strategic Services and the U.S. State Department during World War II and the postwar period.

  Soviet Union, 1941-49 (8 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 267 S69 Guide, in M&MS

  Soviet Union, 1950-61 (6 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 S65 1963 Guide, in M&MS

  Joint Chiefs of Staff Records:
  Include material on U.S. military and diplomatic policy toward the Soviet Union. The records of the Joint Chief of Staff cover a variety of strategic topics such as Allied aircraft and bombing missions.

  Soviet Union, 1942-45 (2 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 267 R42 index pt.1, in M&MS

  Soviet Union, 1946-53 (7 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 267 R42 index pt.2, in M&MS

  U.S. Military Intelligence Reports:
  American military staff reported on military affairs, domestic politics and government, and foreign affairs based on interviews with military and government officials, evaluations of activities of political parties, and eyewitness coverage of military action.

  Soviet Union, 1919-41 (10 reels - SRLF)

  Cover topics such as the Civil War; the intervention of foreign troops; the organization of the Red Army; major events at the Eastern Front such as the invasion June 1941 by Germany, the Soviet offensive 1943-44, the industrial production during the war, the overhaul of the Soviet military leadership, etc."

  Soviet Union, 1941-44 (22 reels - M&MS - DK 266 A3 U55 1985) Guide: DK 266 A3 U55 1985 Guide, in M&MS

  U.S. Army Department General Staff, Military Intelligence Division--Correspondence Relating to General, Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in Russia/Soviet Union: 1918-41
  Largely reports from the US military attache and his assistants in Russia and the USSR

  (23 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 266 A3 U54 1987 Guide, in M&MS

  CIA Research Reports

  These research reports on all aspects of area studies as well as on U.S. foreign policy toward both allies and adversaries examine important developments in area domestic politics, military affairs, economic matters and foreign relations.

  Soviet Union, 1946-1976 (5 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 C53 Guide, in M&MS

  John F. Kennedy National Security Files:

  USSR & Eastern Europe, 1961-63 (3 reels - SRLF) Guide: UA 770 J58 1988 Guide, in M&MS

  Document critical developments in the evolution of U.S. relations with Moscow and its satellites between 1961 and 1963. Include documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files:

  USSR & Eastern Europe, 1963-69 (1 reel - SRLF) Guide: E 846 L96 1987 Guide, in M&MS

  L.B.Johnson's years as president marked an important transitional period in the Cold War. The documents give a good sense of the day-to-day management of U.S.-Soviet relations and a particularly good indication of the ways in which the Vietnam War affected the relationship.

  Soviet Union & *Republics of FSU, Special Studies
  Studies on the Soviet Union from universities, colleges, corporations, think tanks and individuals contracted by the US Government to provide data and analysis.

  1970-80 (9 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 S65 1967 Index, in M&MS

  1980-82 (8 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 S65 1968 Guide, in M&MS

  1982-85 (9 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 S65 1969 sup. Guide, in M&MS

  1985-88 (9 reels - SRLF) Guide:

  1989-91 (13 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 274 S65 1992 Guide, in M&MS

  *1992-94 (16 reels - DK 285 S65 1995 - M&MS) Guide: DK 285 S65 1995 Guide, in M&MS

  British Documents on Foreign Affairs (Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print):

  Russia, 1859-1914 (6vv - *JX 632 B74 1983)

  Soviet Union, 1917-39 (17vv - *DK 266 A3 B68 1984)

  Soviet Union & Finland, 1940-1945 (6vv) *JX 632 B7762 1997

  Soviet Union & Finland, 1946-1950 (2+ vv) *JZ 632 B77 1999

  The Confidential Print includes diplomatic despatches and other papers printed for limited internal circulation within the British government. Contents include materials on the political, economic, and social conditions throughout the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.

  National Security Archive; The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-91

  (190 fiche - JK 468 I6 S68 1995 - in M&MS) (Guide: JK 468 I6 S68 1995 Guide, in M&MS)

  The set publishes together for the first time more than 600 intelligence estimates and reports, representing nearly 14,000 pages of documentation from the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and other organizations, as well as the Pentagon's 1,000-page internal history of the United States-Soviet arms race.

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• Other

  Russian Political Parties Collection

  (597 fiche - SRLF) Guide: *JN 6699 A795 R87, in M&MS

  Reproduces 240 titles published in the period 1900-1930 on outlawed and suppressed Russian political parties of the late 19th and early 20th century. Included are populist, agrarian, terrorist, and early socialist groups.

  The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (MERSH)

  Supplement to The Modern ... (SMERSH)

  (59+ vols. - YRL Ref: DK 14 M719 and DK 14 M719 sup.)

  This is designed to be the most comprehensive aid to the study of the Russian past ever created in English. It encompasses all major facts, events, personalities, and institutions important to the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia. Much of the material included has not appeared in any other compendium. The Encyclopedia was compiled by translating and editing articles from many standard Russian reference sources, including encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries, supplemented by new entries by contemporary scholars.

  Results of the 1989 USSR Population Census

  The final and most comprehensive population census of the former Soviet Union ever conducted. Contains data from the 24-vol., 15,000 page printed version in database format, with interactive maps. In both English and Russian.

  (CD-ROM - YRL Reference & Instructional Services; HA 1434 1989(b)

  Zhivopisnaia Rossiia

  An illustrated account of the history and culture, as well as the political, social, and economic life of the Russian Empire during the late 19th and early 20th century.

  (135 fiche - DK 26 Z62 1881A - M&MS)

  Articles on Russian and Soviet History, 1500-1990

  A 14-volume anthology of scholarly articles, lectures, roundtables, and excerpts from unpublished dissertations and manuscripts never previously available as a coherent unit. The set covers social, cultural, and economic history.
  (volumes are cataloged individually)

  Russian History and Culture

  (microfiche - continuing - DK 188 R92, in M&MS) Guide: DK 188 R92 Index, in YRL Reference & Instructional Services

  A collection of thousands of scarce books on 19th and early 20th century Russia from the Helsinki University Library.

  Lenin to Khrushchev: The USSR in Retrospect, 1917-56 Internal and External Affairs

  (2034 microprint cards - M&MS - DK 266 A3 L46) Guide: DK 266 A3 L46 Index, in M&MS

  A collection of pamphlets, booklets and brochures in both English and Russian which chronicles all facets of development in the Soviet Union during the first 40 years of its existence

  Records of the Smolensk Oblast 1917-1941

  (75 reels - SRLF) Guide: DK 511 S7 K65 Guide, in M&MS

  Archival files on life in the formative years of the Soviet regime and about the problems confronting the state and population.

  Yugoslavia: Peoples, States, and Society

  (109 reels - DR 1214 Y836 1991) Guide: DR 1214 Y836 1991 Guide, in M&MS

  Socio-political and historical pamphlets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each title in the collection is cataloged individually.

  ZEMSTVO Statistics; Russia 1870-1917

  (Microfiche - SRLF) Guide: *HA 1444 P75 1992 Guide, in M&MS

  Materials on aspects of Russian society compiled by statisticians from provincial administrative agencies established after the reforms of the 1860s. Besides agricultural economy, there are data on public health, education and industry. Includes materials on the Kostroma, Moscow, Riazan, and Saratov regions, as well as general works.

  Russian Regional Explorer: Geography, Government, Economy, Ecology

  Contains data on population, economic reforms, foreign trade, environment, health statistics, politics, etc.

  (CD-ROM with guide - G 2110 R87 1996 - YRL Reference & Instructional Services)

  Post-Soviet Russian Politics

  (4 boxes of documents, 5 video- and 1 audio cassette; SRLF - JN 6699 A795C65 1990)

  A collection of political publications, campaign literature, audio- and video cassettes prepared and distributed for recent election campaigns in Russia

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The Arts

Barshchevsky Collection of 19th Century Russian Photography

(CD-ROM - M&MS, NA 1181 B37 1995)

Over 2000 images recorded 1882-1896 by I.F. Barshchevskii, photographer of the Russian Imperial Archaeological Society, with contemporary maps and textual commentary

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