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Dictionaries and Transliteration Guides

Library of Congress Transliteration Tables for Cyrillic Alphabets

Multitran - Russian-English and English-Russian dictionary

Translit Plus - Online transliteration tool

Finding Good Articles

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

The best place to look for articles is the library databases. Here are the best databases for discovering articles related to Russian Studies.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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History and culture of the world, excluding the United States and Canada

JSTOR
Scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, and sciences
Literature Resource Center
Biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works

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Index to journals, series, and books covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing, from the 1920s-present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text scholarly journals in the fields of: area and ethnic studies; art and architecture; creative writing; education; film, theater, and performing arts; history; language and linguistics; library science and publishing; literature; medicine and health; music; philosophy; religion; science, technology, and mathematics; social sciences; studies by time period; women's studies, gender, and sexuality.
WorldCat (Discovery) This link opens in a new window
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Catalog of library resources held by institutions around the world. Find materials and place interlibrary loan requests for resources not owned locally.
WorldCat on the former FirstSearch platform is available from http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/worldcat-firstsearch
Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume I This link opens in a new window
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Full text digitized cartoon/comic strips, comics, artwork, commentary, and other primary documents focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s to the works of modern artists.

Welcome!

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General Russian Studies Links

Russia Links (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Excellent organization of links, including the language of the suggested sites, with occasional evaluation of sites.

Russian Webliography - Comprehensive list of resources related to the study of Russian language and culture, created by the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center at Duke University.

School of Russian and Asian Studies Library - "Everything and Anything about Russia and Eurasia."

Additional Web Resources

ArcheoBiblioBase
Bibliographies
University of Arizona Library's guide to Slavic Studies research.
The Fundamental Digital Library: Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web)
A project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications. A repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it (from their website).
Hoover Institution's Russia/Eurasia Collection
Introduction to Russian Archives
Kazakhstan Central State Archive
National Library of Russia
National Library of Russia
English version
Russian State Library
Slavic Reference Service
A service of the University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library.
The Russian Empire and Soviet Union. A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States
Searchable database of this 1981 publication.
Russian Federal Archival Service
Slavic, Eurasian and East Europeans Collection at UNC Chapel Hill
State Archival Service of Ukraine

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

Russian Studies Research Guide: Home

Dictionaries and Transliteration Guides

Finding Good Articles

Welcome!

General Russian Studies Links

Additional Web Resources