Digital Resources for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus

Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB) for Russian printed works by the Russian Book Chamber (Knizhnaia Palata); covers publications from over 20,000 publishers. Includes citations for books, newspaper articles, journal articles, book reviews, maps, dissertation abstracts, sheet music, art works; includes a list of all Russian periodicals and continuing publications; searchable in transliteration (LC) or Cyrillic.

Searchable and browsable database of digitized issues of Krokodil (1922-2000), Novyĭ krokodil (2001-2004), and Krokodil (2005-2008).

Ogonek is one of the oldest weekly magazines in Russia, having been in continuous publication since 1923.

Russkaia literatura (archives) is a journal of literary criticism, a reliable resource featuring biographical information and criticism of Russian and Soviet authors in various genres. Published since 1958 by the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Science (Pushkinskii Dom), this journal features numerous papers, discussion pieces, articles and essays concerning classical and modern writers and poets of Russia.

One of the first Russian literary and political journals. Together with literature and arts the journal enlightened its readers on problems of internal and foreign policy of Russia, history and political life of foreign countries.

The Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents from Fond 558, which covers Stalin's personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs.The SDA is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP) to create an electronic database of finding aids, to digitize documents and images, and to publish in different forms and media materials from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.

Includes two journal titles: Niva (1870-1918), and Dlia Detei (01/31/1917-12/31/1917). Niva, an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life was a magazine of the late-nineteenth-century Russia published from 1870 to 1918 in St. Petersburg.

The collection illustrates the genres of Russian popular literature and includes chivalric tales, historical fiction and updated fairy tales, as well as stories of adventure, banditry, detectives, success, war and empire, women and gender.

Online versions of publications from the major Russian statistics agency Goskomstat Rossii and its regional statistics agencies, Statkomitet SNG, and statistical agencies of the former Soviet Union. Statistical yearbooks, monthly analytical reports, regional statistical information, and annual statistical abstracts.