Russian & Soviet

Two series containing thirty-eight titles are indispensable to historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists, bibliographers, and literary historians, as well as those interested in Russian and Eastern culture of the past and of the present. The material is in Russian and covers the period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The collection includes dictionaries, bibliographies, government documents, collections of laws, and periodicals.

The collection consists of primary materials on Russian Futurism before the Revolution. It contains monochrome and colour microfiche of journals, poetry, manifestos and miscellanies. The titles in this collection are from private collections in England, France, and the United States of America.

The collection includes biographical information on 75,000 important personages from the earliest times, the rule of the Rjurikiden, to the end of the dynasty of the Romanovs in 1917, providing historical information for all of the Russian states, including White Russia, Ukraine, as well as the Baltic States and Poland. Compiled from more than 150 source works published between 1827 and 1995.

In 1830, M. M. Speranskii and his colleagues published forty-five volumes (entitled Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii) containing, in chronological order, the texts of more than 31,600 legislative enactments beginning with the Ulozhenie of 1649 and ending with the reign of Alexander I on December 11, 1825. Later, a second and third series were issued. The second, embracing the reigns of Nicholas I and Alexander II (1825-1880), takes up 55 volumes, the third comprises 33 volumes for the period March 1881-1913, when publication was terminated by the Revolution.

A collection of unedited intelligence reports—many of them handwritten—from Red Army operatives throughout Russia.  Included are traditional operational and intelligence reports and evaluations.  The political intelligence reports contain surveys of civilian attitudes and assessments of the mood and circumstances of Red Army troops.

The One-Day Newspaper Collection consists of newspapers that had unusually short runs, published in the period between the first year of the Russian Revolution and the start of the Gorbachev era. The One-Day Newspaper Collection of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library is the largest, with more than 6400 titles.

A collection of records documenting the activities of the Soviet State, Central Committee of the Communist Party and All-Union Young Communist League from March 1953 until April 1966, from the holdings of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) in Moscow.

The collection includes writings on Russia by French, German, English and other western observers representing ideologies ranging from Orleanism to anarchy, and including various religious doctrines. Works of Russian political emigrés, including Turgenev and Bakunin, are also included. Among the many concrete topics dealt with in the collection are tsarism and Russian political history, serfdom, Russian socialism and early revolutionary movements. The collection provides the researcher with a broad account of 19th century Russia and of how it was regarded in the West.

The collection includes sources covering events leading up to and including the overthrow of the Russian Empire. The collection is based on the holdings at Columbia University's Herbert Lehman Library. Included are titles such as Journal de St.

This collection includes all pre-revolutionary journals dedicated to the gramophone and the phonograph, which were still considered novelties at the time these journals were published. It also includes six Moscow journals from 1774 to the early 20th century.