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Encyclopedia of Russian History
Four volumes. Helmke Library also has a print copy.

Google Books
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Books: Search Examples

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Catalog Search Example: Soviet and Russian History
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Scholarly Article Databases

Historical Abstracts
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JSTOR
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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Google Scholar
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Primary Sources

Library Catalogs & Collections

Helmke Library Catalog
The Library's Catalog include a large a collection of primary sources, both in print and online. A few search strategies include: search by author (for important historical figures), resort by publication date and experiment with keywords such as: correspondence, documents, sources, memoirs, diares, etc. You could also try adding the word translated to your search.

FirstSearch: WorldCat Advanced Search (See also WorldCat Advanced Search: FirstSearch)
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HathiTrust
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HathiTrust: A Search Example of Translated Titles
This search provides 131 results. Try using the filters at left to narrow your search.

Digital Collections: Websites and Online Archives

Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
From the Wilson Center Digital Archive, with documents from former communist countries.
EuroDocs: Russian Revolution, Civil War and USSR 1917-1991
From Brigham Young University
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
Summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
Internet Archive
A digital archive that includes items digitized in collaboration with U.S. public libraries, museums and academic institutions. Try also their homepage and Advanced Search.
Internet Sourcebook: Russian Revolution
From Fordham University
Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941
From the Avalon Project at Yale.
Posters of the Russian Civil War 1918-1922
From New York Public Library
Russian Posters Collection, 1919-1989 and undated
From Duke University
Soviet Memoir Literature in English Translation
A bibliography of titles from UW Madison Libraries. Try searching for titles of interest in the library catalog or WorldCat.
World War II: Selected Resources at the MSU Libraries: Soviet Union
From Michigan State University

U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.

Central Intelligence Agency's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
Declassified documents available from the CIA's website.

Country Intelligence Reports/State Department''s Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports: USSR
Department of State reports on the USSR, 1941-1947, from the U.S. National Archives.

Digital National Security Archive
Includes over 36 collections with, with over 80,000 indexed documents. See Collections Guide within DNSA for more info. From ProQuest.

FBI Records: The Vault
The FBI's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Library; search or browse by category or an A to Z index.
National Archives Catalog
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) holds the historical records of the U.S. federal government. The catalog searches both digitized items and physical items held by NARA.

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files
One of Gale's Archives Unbound collections, this collection contains more than 9,000 documents relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Afghanistan from 1945-1963.

Digital Collections of Slavic Resources
A guide to digital collections, with links to a number of Russian language sites. From the University of Texas Libraries.

Maps

IUB's Cyrillic Map Collection
Indiana University Bloomington has a large collection of Soviet military topographic maps. There is an interactive index map and IUB is in the process of digitizing the collection.
Soviet 1:200,000 maps
Soviet Union and Afghanistan topographic maps at 1:200,000. Developed with support from Chris Thiry at Colorado School of Mines.
MSU Map Library: Links to Useful Sites
This guide, from the Michigan State University Libraries, includes links to a number of major online map collections.

Reference and E-Reference

Encyclopedia of Russian History
Four volumes. Helmke Library also has a print copy.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution by Harold Shukman
ISBN: 0631195254
Publication Date: 1994-12-05
Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary by Archie Brown (Editor)
ISBN: 0028970713
Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Some 1,400 biographies cover leading personalities from 1917 to the present, paying special attention to politicians, journalists, social scientists, and writers who have contributed to glasnost.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union by Archie Brown; John Fennell (Editor); Michael Kaser; H. T. Willetts (Editor); Gerald S. Smith
ISBN: 0521231698
Publication Date: 1982-02-18

This handbook written by over 100 specialists covers all aspects of Soviet life in a concise format.
Soviet Culture and Power by Katerina Clark (Editor); Oleg V. Naumov (Compiled by); Evgeny Dobrenko (Editor); Andrei Artizov (Compiled by); Marian Schwartz (Translator)
ISBN: 9780300106466
Publication Date: 2007-09-28

Included in the volume are "decisions of the Politburo, Stalin’s correspondence with individual intellectuals, his responses to particular plays, novels, and movie scripts, petitions to leaders from intellectuals, and secret police reports on intellectuals under surveillance. Introductions, explanatory materials, and a biographical index accompany the documents."

Gale Virtual Reference Library
E-reference from a variety of publishers.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
E-reference titles from Oxford University press.

Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian Documentation Style
From the University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center
Turabian Footnote/Endnote Style
From the Georgetown University Library

The Chicago Manual of Style
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