The Maximenkov Collection contains video recordings of a variety of television shows, both news and entertainment. Examples of what is offered include films, concerts, sporting events and Vremia news reports, in addition to Russian-related stories on North American news networks such as CTV and CNN.
The video cassettes contained in this collection cover a wide range of subjects, including documentaries, news programs, musical performances and assorted Russian television programs. The content is either in Russian or in English but with Russian content.
The Digital National Security Archive contains more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical United States policy decisions. There are 29 complete collections, each offering specialized insights, for example: “Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962”; “Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962”; and “Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991”, which is a document set of more than 600 U.S. intelligence estimates and assessments concerning the Soviet Union during the entire period of the Cold War.
The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified United States government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more. A wide range of documents is devoted to the Soviet Union, selected Soviet republics, and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. Highlights include U.S.
The collection of teaching slides of peoples and places created under the auspices of Griffith Taylor, W.C. Wilson and Donal Fulton Putnam while they were heads of the department, include views of Russia.
The Centre for Russian and East European Studies was established at the University of Toronto in 1963 to promote the interdisciplinary study of the region.
These records consist of announcements, publicity materials, course descriptions, reports, and photographs relating to the Summer Russian workshops.
The Centre for Russian and East European Studies was established at the University of Toronto in 1963 to promote the interdisciplinary study of the region. These records consist of subject files on Canadian-Soviet educational exchanges.
Research files, interview transcripts, drafts of manuscript of the publication Moscow Despatches inside Cold War Russia, by John Watkins; edited and with an introduction by Dean Beeby and William Kaplan (Toronto: Lorimer, 1987). The publication includes selections from official despatches written while Watkins was ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Irvine Israel Glass (1918-1994) obtained his B.Sc. (1947) and M.Sc. (1948) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Toronto. In 1950, he obtained his Ph.D. from the newly formed Institute of Aerophysics at the University of Toronto. He served in this Institute until his retirement in 1983, and thereafter he worked as Professor Emeritus. Glass made major contributions to gasdynamics research and shock-wave phenomena.
The collection includes a variety of material concerning agrarian development and the peasantry of 19th century Russia. The main bulk of the publications of the Zemstvo, provincial administrative bodies set up after the Reform of 1861, consists of more than 4000 volumes covering the period from 1860 to 1917. The material in the collection is important not only for historians of Russia but also for economists and others concerned with the agrarian economy and the doctrinal debate of the Marxists and Russian Populists.