Research Guide: Historically Significant Bibliographies in Russian Studies
This is a guide of select historically significant bibliographies and catalogs in Russian Studies, available in the USC Libraries. For additional sources, consult HOMER and Electronic Resources on the libraries’ web page, library.usc.edu.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
General
Bibliographic guide to Soviet and East European studies. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978-LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2483.B48
Material taken from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress catalogs. Includes sources in East European languages.
Fomin, Aleksandr Grigorevich. Putevoditel’ po bibliografii, biobibliografii, istoriografii, khronologii i entsyklopedii literatury; sistematicheskii, annotirovannyi ukazatel’ russkikh knig i zhurnal’nykh rabot, napechatannykh v 1736-1932 gg. New York: Johnson, 1966.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2501.F67 1966
An important guide to Russian literary bibliographies from the 18th century through the early 20th century.
Foster, Ludmilla A. Bibliography of Russian emigre literature, 1918-1968. 2 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1970.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2513.F66
Two-volume work that lists literature by Russian emigres published outside the Soviet Union.
Golubeva, O. D. Literaturno-khudozhestvennye al’manakhi i sborniki; 1928-1937 gody. Moskva: Vsesoiuznaia knizhnaia palata, 1959.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2504.C6V7 v.4
Lists tables of contents of literary almanacs; includes a name index.
Ignashev, Diane M. Nemec, and Sarah Krive. Women and writing in Russia and the USSR; a bibliography of English language sources. New York: Garland, 1992.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2503.5.W6N45 1992
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2941.K5
This principal Soviet national bibliography comes out on a weekly basis. Lists books and pamphlets published in Russia and the republics in all languages.
Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei. Moskva: Nauka, 1926-
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks AI15.L4
Weekly bibliography of journal articles on all subjects. Library holdings start in 1968.
18th Century
Akademiia Nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury. Istoriia russkoi literatury XVIII veka; bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Leningrad: Nauka, 1968.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2502.S76
Cross, Anthony G., and S. Gerlad. Eighteenth century Russian literature, culture and thought: a bibliography of English-language scholarship and translations. Newtonville: Oriental Research Partners, 1984.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2501.C76 1984
LOCATION: Grand 016.8918.S712o 1962
A reprint of a complete bibliography of works printed in the Church Slavonic and Russian languages from the introduction of printing to 1813. 13,249 items in Church Slavonic and in Cyrillic; includes subject and chronological indexes, and lists the printers and their locations. Two volumes.
19th Century
Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut iazykoznaniia. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ po russkomu iazykoznaniiu s 1825 po 1880 god. Edited by V. V. Vinogradov. Moskva: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1954-1959.
LOCATION: Grand 016.4917
A reasonably complete bibliographic index for the period concerned.
Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury. Istoriia russkoi literatury XIX veka; bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Akademiia nauk SSSR, 1962.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2503.I88
Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury. Istoriia russkoi literatury kontsa XIX nachala XX veka; bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2503.I882
20th Century
Akademiia nauk SSSR. Biblioteka. Sovetskii roman, ego teoriia i istoriia; bibliograficheskii ukazatel’, 1917-1964. Leningrad: Akademiia nauk SSSR, 1966.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2504.F5A52
An annotated bibliography of the history and theory of Soviet fiction. Chronological.
Akademiia nauk SSSR. Fundamental’naia biblioteka obshchestvennykh nauk. Sovetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika: russkaia sovetskaia literatura; knigi i stat’i 1917-1962 godov. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. Moskva: Nauka, 1966.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2503.A45
An annotated bibliography of critical and historical materials on Soviet literature.
Ocheretiansky, Aleksandr. Literature and art of avant-garde Russia (1890-1930); Bibliographical Index. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1989.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2504.A74O24 1989
Woll, Josephine. Soviet dissident literature: A critical guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks Z2511.U5W64
Includes 1,300 items of samizdat literature published in Western periodicals and books, all nonfiction books, as well as articles and essays.
Catalogs
New York Public Library. Slavonic Division. Dictionary catalog of the Slavonic collection. 244 vols. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.
LOCATION: Grand, Microfilm no. 663
A reproduction of the catalog cards for Slavic and Baltic materials, and for materials in other languages on these areas published through 1971.
LOCATION: Grand Z6605.S62S9 1984
U. S. Library of Congress. Catalog Publications Division. The Slavic Cyrillic union catalog of pre-1956 imprints. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
LOCATION: Reference Center Microfiche no. 166
Reproduces the catalog cards from the Slavic Union Catalog at the Library of Congress and lists books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, periodicals, and other serial publications acquired before 1956 in the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as in Russian, Church Slavic, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian.
Archival Materials
Gosudarstvennye archivy SSSR – spravochnik. 2 vols. Moskva: Mysl’, 1989.LOCATION: Doheny Stacks CD1711.G66 1989
An annotated listing to state archives in the former USSR. Includes a name index.
Grant, Steven A., and John H. Brown. The Russian empire and the Soviet Union: A Guide to manuscripts and archival materials in the United States. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.
LOCATION: Reference Center Z2491.G66
Arranged by state. Includes a subject index.
Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives of Russia: a directory and bibliographic guide to holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. 2 vols. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000.
LOCATION: Doheny Stacks CD1710.A76 2000
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