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 Archives in Russia

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Catalogue of Finding Aids and Documents (Moscow State Archival Service of Russia. Stanford: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1995)

  RAM094.30947

Dictionary of archival terminology / Dictionnaire de terminologie archivistique: English and French with equivalents in Dutch, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, edited by Peter Walne, compiled by Frank B. Evans and others (Munchen. London: Saur, 1984)
[Series: ICA handbooks series. Vol 3.)

HUR025.1714

Fifteenth-Century French illuminated manuscripts in Moscow collections, Books of Hours, The Lenin Library, The Historical Museum, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, The Gorky Library of Moscow University, The Arkhangelskoye Estate-Museum, compiled and intro. by Yekaterina Zolotova; trans. from Russian by Michael Molnar, (Leningrad: 1991)

  MSS 017.7453

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972)
[1st volume issued in the series: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University; subsequent volumes form part of the series Biblioteca Slavica 9 - . Includes bibliographies]

  HLR027.50947
MSS027.547

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Part 2, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belorussia (Princeton, Guildford: Princeton University Press, 1981)
[Series: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University, Harvard Ukrainian Series. Includes index.]

  MSS027.547

Polak, Emil J. Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: a census of manuscripts found in Eastern Europe and the former USSR (Leiden: Brill, 1993)
[Series: Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, vol. 8. Includes indices]

MSS876.0309

Alshits, Daniil Natanovich. Istoricheskaia kollektsiia Ermitazhnogo sobraniia rukopisei: pamiatniki XI-XVII vv.: opisanie (Moskva: Kniga, 1968)
[Includes index.]

  MSS017.7453

Katalog inkunabulov na drevneevreiskom iazyke biblioteki Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta vostokovedeniia ANSSR, sostavitel' S.M. Iakerson (Leningrad: BAN, 1985)
[Illustrated. Text in Russian and Hebrew]

OIC011.42

Latinskie rukopisi V-XII vekov Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki im. M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: kratkoe opisanie dlia svodnogo kataloga rukopisei khraniashchikhsia v SSSR, redkollegiia S. O. Shmidt i dr.
(Leningrad: Biblioteka Akademii nauk SSSR, 1983)
[A catalogue of the Latin manuscripts of the 5th-12th Centuries in the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library of St. Petersburg. Volume 1.]

  MSS017.7453

Mokretsova, I. P. Frantzuzskaia knizhnaia miniatiura XIII veka v sovetskikh sobraniiakh 1200-1270
(Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1983)

MSS745.67 col

Mokretsova, I. P. Frantzuzskaia knizhnaia miniatiura XIII veka v sovetskikh sobraniiakh 1270-1300
(Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1984)

MSS745.67 col

Opisanie Rukopisnogo otdela Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR.: khronografy, letopisi, stepennye, rodoslovny razriadnye knigi, 2nd edn. (Leningrad: Akademiia nauka SSSR, 1959)
[Volume 3 of the Opisanie Rukopisnogo otdela Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR. Includes index.]

  MSS017.7453

Rukopisi latinskogo alfavita XVI XVII vv. sost. I. N. Lebedeva (Leningrad: Akademiia nauka SSSR, 1979) [Volume 6 of the Opisanie Rukopisnogo otdela Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR. Catalogue of Latin Manuscripts in the Library of Akademiia nauka SSSR.]

MSS017.7453

Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaia, Olga A. Les anciens manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque publique Saltykov-Scedrin de Leningrad: VIIIe-début Ixe siècle, catalogue établi par Olga. A. Dobias-Rozdestvenskaja et Wsevolod W. Bakhtine (Paris: CNRS, 1991)
[Includes indexes.]

MSS017.7453

 Art and architecture

Dictionary of Art Libraries in Europe, or libraries with important art holdings: a preliminary list (Bristol: The Library, Bristol Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design. IFLA Round Table of Art Librarians, 1979)
[Includes libraries in Russia]

HLQ026.7

Hamilton, George Heard. The Art and Architecture of Russia (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983).
[Third edition. Series: Pelican History of Art. Includes bibliography and index.]

  HLR709.47

Milner, John. A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970 (Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club, 1993)
[A comprehensive dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists. Includes introductory chapter and bibliography.]

  HLR709.47

 Bibliographies and reference guides

Collins, David N. Siberia and the Soviet Far East (Oxford: Clio, 1991)
[Series: World Bibliographical Series, vol. 127.]

 HLR957

Drage, C. L. Russian and Church Slavonic Books 1701-1800 in United Kingdom Libraries: a list with bibliographical references, locations, notes and indices. (London: C.L. Drage, 1984)

  RAR094.30947

Hartley, Janet M. Guide to Documents and Manuscripts in the United Kingdom relating to Russia and the Soviet Union (London: Mansell, 1987)
[Includes index.]

 HLR947
MSS947

Jones, David Lewis. Books in English on the Soviet Union, 1917-73: a bibliography (New York. London: Garland, 1975)
[Series: Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol 3. Includes index.]

  HLR947.084

Lewanski, Richard C. Eastern European and Russia/Soviet Union: a handbook of West European archival and library resources (New York, London: Saur, 1980)
[Series: The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, no.9]

OPL947.0074

Maichel, Karol. Guide to Russian Reference Books...ed. by J. S. G. Simmons. (Stanford, 1962)
[Series: Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series, No. 10, 18, 32, etc.]

  HLR947

Pitman, Lesley. Russia/USSR, 2nd. ed., (London: Clio, 1994)
[Series: World Bibliographical Series, vol. 6. Includes index.]

  HLR947

Schaffner, Bradley L. Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its predecessors and successors (Metuchen, N.J., London: Scarecrow Press, 1995)
[Series: Scarecrow Area Bibliographies, no. 5. Includes index.]

  HLR947

A Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States: The Academies of Sciences of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Institute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
[New edition. Previous edition 1985]

  HLQ067

Simmons, J. S. G., Russian Bibliography: libraries and archives. A selective list of bibliographical references for students of Russian history, literature, political, social and philosophical thought, theology and linguistics (Twickenham: Anthony C. Hall, 1973)
[Includes indexes.]

HLR947
MSS947

Slavic Studies: a guide to bibliographies, encylopedias and handbooks (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1993)

  HLR947

Soviet Studies guide, ed. by Tania Konn (London: Bowker-Saur,1992)
[Series: Area Studies Guides. Includes index.]

  HLR947.007

Terry, Garth M. East European Languages and Literatures: A subject and name index guide to Articles in English-Language Journals, Festschriften, Conference Proceedings and collected Papers.
[5 volumes. Volume 1 covers 1900-1977 (Oxford. Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1978); volume 2 covers 1978-1981 (Nottingham: Astra Press, 1982); Volume 3 covers 1982-1984 (Nottingham: Astra Press, 1985); volume 4 covers 1985-87 (Nottingham: Astra Press, 1988); Volume 5 covers 1988-1990 (Nottingham: Astra Press, 1991).]

  HLR891.8

Walker, Gregory. Library Resources in Britain for the study of Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R., compiled by Gregory Walker and Jackie Johnson (Wheatley: G. Walker, 1992)
[Revision of: Resources for Soviet, East European & Slavonic studies in British Libraries (Birmingham: Centre for Russian & East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 1981)]

  HLR947

Ezhegodnik knigi SSSR ... sistematicheskii ukazatel' 1935-1941 (Moskva: Vsesoiuznaia knizhnaia palata, 1936-)
[Annual list of books published in Russia. No issues 1936-40. Vol. 1 in 1941 not published. Issues 1935-1941, 1043-46 and 1948 are photographic imprints.]

HLR015.47

Kniga v 1915 (-1929) : Ezhegodnik Gosudarstvennoi tsentral'noi knizhnoi palaty (Moskva-Leningrad: Gosizdat., 1927-1931)
[Annual list of books published in Russia. 7 volumes.]

HLR015.47

Mezhov, Vladimir Izmailovich. Sistematicheskii katalog russkim knigam, prodaiushchimsia v knizhnom magazinie A. F. Bazunova...v S.-Peterburgie...s ukazaniem...kriticheskikh statei, retsenzii i bibliograficheskikh zamietok, kasaiushchikhsia knig, pomieshchennykh v katalogie i izvlechennykh iz vsiekh periodicheskikh izdanii i sbornikov vyshedshikh v sviet s 1825 vilot do 1869 goda (St. Peterburg, 1869-75)

HLR015.47

Sokurova, M.V. Obshchie bibliografii russkikh knig grazhdanskoi pechati 1708-1955: annotirovannyi ukazatel' , 2nd edn.(Leningrad, 1956)

HLL015.47

Sopikov, Vasily Stepanovich. Opyt rossiiskoi bibliografii, redaktsiia...dopol'neniia i ukazatel' V. N. Rogozhina (St Peterburg, 1904)
[6 parts.]

  RAR094.0947

Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka, 1725 -1800, compiled by I. P. Kondakov and others (Moskva: Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka SSR im. V. I. Lenina, 1962-1975)
[Volumes 1-5]

RAR094.30947

Svodnyi katalog knig na inostrannykh iazykakh, izdannykh v Rossii v XVIII veke. 1701-1800, ed. V. A. Filov and others (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984-6)
[A catalogue of books in foreign languages published in Russia in the Eighteenth Century. 3 volumes.]

RAR094.30947

 Biography

Boer, S. P., de. Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union 1956-1975, compiled and edited by S. P. de Boer and others (The Hague. London: Nijhoff, 1982)
[Includes bibliography]

OPL322.40947

Vronskaya, Jeanne. The Biographical Dictionary of the former Soviet Union: prominent people in all fields from 1917 to the present (London: Bowker-Saur, 1992)
[Previously published as: A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union, 1917-1988, 1989]

  HLR920.047

Who was Who in the USSR: a biographic directory containing 5, 015 biographies of prominent Soviet historical personalities, ed. Dr Heinrich E. Schulz et al. (Metuchen, N.J.:Scarecrow Press, 1972)

  HLR920.047

Who's who in Russia and the New States, ed. by Leonard Geron and Alex Pravda (London: Tauris, 1993)

  HLR920.047

Kaufman, Isaak Mikhailovich. Russkie bibliograficheskie i biobibliograficheskie slovari (Moskva: Gosizd. Kul'turno-prosvetitel'noi literatury,1955)
[Russian biographical and bio-bibliographical dictionaries; covers numerous subject areas from 18th century to 1954]

  HLR920.047

Russkii biograficheskii slovar' ... ed by A. A. Polotsova ( St. Peterburg, Moskva, 1896, Petrograd, 1918)
[25 volumes]

HLR920.047

 Cinema and film

The Oxford History of World Cinema, ed. Geoffrey Novrell-Smith (New York: O.U.P., 1996)
[Includes a number of chapters on Russian and Soviet cinema.]

  HLR803

 Dance

International dictionary of ballet, ed. M. Bremser (Detroit, London, Washington: St James Press, 1993)
[2 volumes]

  HLR792.803

International directory of dance (New York, Oxford: O.U.P.,1998)
[6 volumes. Volume 5 includes a section on Russia with a bibliography]

  HLR792.803

 Dictionaries and Glossaries

Bilingual dictionaries

Monolingual dictionaries

Multilingual dictionaries

Dictionaries of pseudonyms

Etymological dictionaries

 Bilingual dictionaries

Afghan-Russian/Russian-Afghan

Aslanov, M. G. Afgansko-russkii slovar' (pushtu): 50,000 slov, sos. M.G. Aslanov, pod. red. N.A. Dvoriankova (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1960)

OIG491.593

Amharic-Russian/Russian-Amharic

Gankin, E. B. Amkharsko-russkii slovar', okolo 25, 000 slov )Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskaia entsiklopediia", 1969)

OID492.873 OIOC

English-Russian/Russian-English

Glossary of Russian abbreviations and acronyms, compiled by The Aerospace Technology Division (Washington: Library of Congress Reference Department, Aerospace Technology Division, 1967)

  HLR491.731

The Oxford Russian Dictionary, English-Russian, ed. by Paul Falla; Russian-English, ed. by Marcus Wheeler & Boris Unbegaum; rev. and updated throughout by Colin Howlett (Oxford: OUP, 1993)
[Amalgamation and updated version of The Oxford Russian-English dictionary, 2nd edn.,1984 and The Oxford English-Russian dictionary, 1984]

  HLR491.73

Ryan W. F. The Penguin Russian dictionary, complied by W. F. Ryan (English-Russian) and Peter Norman (Russian-English) (London: Penguin, 1996)
[Originally published by London: Viking, 1995]

HLR491.73

Wheeler, Marcus. The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary, general editor: Boris Unbegaum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)

OIA491.73

Bol'shoi anglo-russkii slovar/ New English-Russian dictionary, ed. I R. Galperina, 2nd edn. (Moskva: Russkii iazyk, 1977)

  HLR491.73

Muller, V. K. Anglo-russkii slovar': 70,000 slov i vyrazhenii, 13th edn. (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1967)

  MSS491.7

Russko-angliiskii slovar', compiled by O. S. Akhmanova and others (Moskva, 1961)
[Around 50, 000 words.]

HLR491.73

- Another copy [8th edn., pub.: Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1969]

MSS491.7

Smirnitskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich. Russko-angliiskii slovar' , 4th edn. (Moskva, 1959)

OIA491.73

Indonesian-Russian/Russian-Indonesian

Russko-indoneziiskii slovar', okolo 27,000 slov, compiled by E. S. Belkina and others (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1972)

OIJ499.221

Kurdish-Russian/Russian-Kurdish

Kurdsko-russkii slovar', sostavil Ch. Kh. Bakaev, pod red. I. A. Orbeli (Moskva: Gos. izd-vo onpstrannykh i natsional'nykh slovarei, 1957)

ORW.1999.a.209 OIOC

Manchurian-Russian/ Russian-Manchurian

Zakharov, Ivan. Polnyi man'chzhursko-russkii slovar' (Sanktpeterburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi akademii nauk, 1875)

Vietnamese-Russian/Russian-Vietnamese

V'etnamsko-russkii slovar', sostavili: I. I. Glebova [i dr.], pod red. I. M. Oshanina i Vu Dang Ata (Moskva: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykhi natsional'nykh slovarei, 1961)

OIJ495.922 OIOC

Alikanov, Konstantin Mikhailovich. Russko-v'etnamskii slovar' (Moskva: Russkii iazyk, 1977)

OIJ495.922 OIOC

 Monolingual dictionaries

Dal', Vladimir Ivanovich. Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskago iazyka (S. Peterburg-Moskva 1903-1909)
[4 volumes.]

  HLR491.73

Slovar' sovremennogo russkogo literaturnogo iazyka, ed. by V. I. Chernishev and others (Moskva-Leningrad, 1948-65)
[17 volumes.]

  HLR491.73

Tolkovyi slovar russkogo iazyka, compiled by G. O. Vinokur & others (Moskva 1934-40)
[4 volumes.]

  HLR491.73

 Multilingual dictionaries

 Burger, Erich. Dictionary of Information Science in Four Languages: English, German, French, Russian (Amsterdam. Oxford: Elsevier, 1989)
[Two volumes. Volume 2 is an index.]

HUR004.03

Butler, William E. Mongolian-English-Russian dictionary of legal terms and concepts, compiled and editied by W.E. Butler and A.J. Nathanson (The Hague, London: Nijhoff, 1983)

OIK340.03 OIOC

Leuchtmann, Horst. Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus (Budapest: Akademian Kiado, 1978)
[A polyglot dictionary of musical terms in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian.]

MUS780.3

 Dictionaries of pseudonyms

Masanov, Ivan Filippovich. Slovar' psevdonimov russkikh pisatelei, uchenykh i obshchestvennykh deiatelei (Moskva: Knizhnaia palata, 1956-60)
[Dictionary of Pseudonyms of Russian writers, scholars and public figures. 4 volumes.]

  HLR808

 Etymological dictionaries

Gulkarov, Josef. Etimologicheskii slovar' / Etimologycal [sic] dictionary of Bukharian-Russian-English-Hebrew (Tel-Aviv: Berit. yots'e Bukharah, 1998)
[Illustrated]

OIC491.59

Vasmer, Max. Etimologicheskii slovar' russkogo iazyka (Moskva 1964-73)
[4 volumes. Translated from the German by O. N. Trubachev]

  HLR491.73

 Directories

East-West Links: directory of information providers in the Former Soviet Union and Central Eastern Europe (Wetherby, Boston Spa: British Library Document Supply service, 1996)
[Directory of Libraries and book agents in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, issued every two years.]

  HUR027.0947

Hogg, R. M. Directory of Libraries and book agents in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Boston Spa: The British Library, 1994)

HLR enquiry desk 027.047

 Economics

The Emergence of Industrial Societies, edited by Carlo M. Cipollo, Part 2 (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1976)
[Illustrated. Series: The Fontana economic history of Europe, vol 4. Collection originally published: London: Fontana, 1973. Includes bibliography and index. Includes information on Russia and the Soviet Union]

OPL330.94

Russian Economic Trends (London: Whurr for the Centre of Economic Reform, Government of the Russian Federation with the assistance of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, 1992-)
[Issues for the last three years held on open access]

OPL947.00212

 Encyclopaedias

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russian and the Soviet Union, general eds. Archie Brown and others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
[Illustrated. Includes index and bibliography]

OPL947.003

Great Soviet encyclopedia, ed. A. M. Prokhorov (New York: Macmillan, London: Collier Macmillan ,1974-1983)
[31 volumes, 3 volumes of indexes. Translation of 3rd Russian edition of Bol'shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia]

  HLR037.1

Utechin, Sergei Vasilevich. Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia (London: M. Dent & Sons. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1961)
[Series: Everyman's Reference Library. Illustrated]

  HLR947.003

Bol'shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia, ed. by O. IU. Shmidt (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1926-47)
[66 volumes.]

HLR037.1

Bol'shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 3 edn. (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1970-81)
[30 volumes.]

HLR037.1

Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' , ed. by I.E. Andreevskii (St.Peterburg: Brockhaus Efron, 1890-1970)
[82 volumes. Commonly referred to as: 'Brockhaus Efron'.]

  HLR037.1

 Foreign relations

Confidential US diplomatic post records, Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Paul Kesaris (Frederick: University Publications of America, 1982-84)
[3 volumes. Guide to microfilms held at shelfmark: SPR.mic.A.188]

OPL327.73

The Foreign Office and the Kremlin: British Documents on Anglo-Soviet Relations 1941-1945, ed. with and introduction by Graham Ross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
[Includes bibliography]

OPL327.42047

Hammond, Thomas Taylor. Soviet Foreign Relations and World Communism: a selected, annotated bibliography of 7,000 books in 30 languages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965)

OPL327.47

A Source Book on Socialist International Organisations, ed. and translated by William E. Butler (Aphen enan den Rijk: Sithoff & Noordhoff, 1978)

OPL431.242

The Soviet Diplomatic Corps 1917-1967, compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USSR, ed. by Edward L. Crowley (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1970)

OPL327.47

 Heraldry

Mandich, Donald R. Russian heraldry and nobility, by Donald R. Mandich and Joseph A. Placek (Boynton Beach, Fla. : Dramco, 1992)
[Includes index. Illustrated]

HLR891.73

 History

An Introduction to Russian History, ed. by Robert Auty and Dmitri Obolensky (Cambridge: CUP, 1976)
[Series: Companion to Russian Studies, volume 1]

HLR947

Klyuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich. A History of Russia (New York: Russell & Russell, 1960) [5 volumes.]

  HLR947

Leaders of the Russian Revolution: a guide to the microfilm collection (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994) 

RAM947.084

Memories of Revolution: Russian women remember, ed. by Anna Horsbrugh Porter, interviews by Elena Snow & Frances Welch(London: Routledge, 1993)
[Includes index.]

HUS947.08410082

Pares, Sir Bernard, K.B.E. A History of Russia...with ten maps, a revised bibliography etc. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955)

  HLR947

Pushkarev, Sergei Germanovich. Dictionary of Russian Historical Terms from the eleventh century to 1917... ed. by George Vernadsky and Ralph T. Fisher Jr. (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1970)

  HLR947.003

The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25, ed. by J. S. Bromley (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1970)
[Series: New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 6.]

HLR909.08

The Study of Russian History from British Archival Sources, ed. by Janet M. Hartley (London: Mansell, 1986)
[Conference proceedings.]

  MSS947

Vernadsky, Georgy Vladimirovich. A History of Russia (New Haven, 1946)
[New, revised edition.]

HLR947

Watson, Hugh Seton. The Russian Empire: 1801-1917 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967)
[Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe.]

HLR940

Istoriia SSSR: ukazatel' sovetskoi literatury za 1917-1952 gg. ed. by I. P. Dorovin & others (Moskva, 1956-)
[History of the USSR: bibliography of Soviet literature for 1917-1952. 3 volumes. ]

  HLR947

Sovetskaia istoricheskaia entsiklopediia, ed. E. M. Zhukov (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1961-76)
[Series: Entsiklopedii, slovari, spravochniki. Soviet historical encylopaedia]

  HLR947.003

Spravochnik po istorii dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii, bibliograficheskii ukazatel', nauchnoe rukovodstvo, redaktsiia i vstupitel'naia stat'ia P. A. Zaionchkovskogo, 2nd edn. (Moskva: Kniga, 1978)

  HLR947

 Jewish studies

Korsch, Boris. Soviet publications on Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel, 1984-1988: an annotated bibliography, compiled, annotated and introduced by Boris Korsch (New York, London: Garland 1990)
[Series: Garland reference library of social science, v. 482. Includes index]

OIC909.049 OIOC

Karasik, Vladimir. Evreiskie periodicheskie izdaniia Rossii 1960-1994 (Tel Aviv: Tel-Avivskii universitet, Institut izucheniia evreiskoi pressy, 1994)
[Jewish Periodicals in Russia, 1960-1994. Includes indexes]

OIC011.34

Katalog inkunabulov na drevneevreiskom iazyke biblioteki Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta vostokovedeniia ANSSR, sostavitel' S.M. Iakerson (Leningrad: BAN, 1985)
[Illustrated. Text in Russian and Hebrew]

OIC011.42

 Language / linguistics

Mikhelson, Morits Il'ich. Russkaia mysl' i riech, svoe i chuzhoe. Opyt russkoi frazeologii (St. Peterburg, 1902)
[2 volumes.]

  HLR491.731

Materaly dlia slovaria drevne-russkago iazyka po pis'mennym pamiatnikam (St. Peterburg, 1890-1912)
(3 volumes.)

  HLR491.77

Faensen, Johannes. Sprachen in der UdSSR, Verzeichnis der Namen mit Angaben zu Verbreitung (Osnabruck: Biblio verlag., 1983)

  OIA409.47

 Law

Butler, William E. Mongolian-English-Russian dictionary of legal terms and concepts, compiled and editied by W.E. Butler and A.J. Nathanson (The Hague, London: Nijhoff, 1983)

OIK340.03 OIOC

Paenson, Isaac. English-French-Spanish-Russian manual of the terminology of public international law (law of peace) and international organizations (Brussels: Bruylant, 1983)

OPL340.03

Novaia Rossiia: informatsionno-statisticheskii al'manakh (Moskva: SP 'Vsia Moskva' Mezhdunarodnaia akademiia informatizatsii, 1994-)
[Illustrated]

OPL947.00212

Unger, Aryeh L. Constitutional development in the USSR: a guide to the Soviet Constitutions (New York: Pica, 1982) 

OPL346.147

 Literature

General reference guides

Histories

Literary criticism

Guides to English translations of Russian works

Émigré literature

Revolutionary literature

Siberian literature

 General reference guides

Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. by Victor Terras (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1985)
[Includes index]

HLR891.709

An Introduction to Russian Language and Literature, ed. by Robert Auty and Dimitri Obolensky (Cambridge: CUP, 1976)
[Series: Companion to Russian Studies. In 3 volumes. Volume 2 is devoted to literature. Includes bibliography and index.]

  HLR891.709

Kasack, Wolfgang. Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917, tr. by Maria Carlson and Jane T. Hedges (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988)
[Translation of Lexicon der russichen literatur ab 1917 and Lexicon der russichen literatur ab 1917, Ergänzungsband.] 

HLR891.709

Library of Congress Classification Class P (PG in part) Russian Literature (Washington, Library of Congress, 1948)

  HUR025.433

M. L. A. International bibliography on books and articles on the modern languages and literatures 1921- (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1921-)
[Includes a brief section on Russian Literature]

HUR809

Reference Guide to Russian Literature, ed. by Neil Cornwell. Assoc. ed. Nicole Christian (London. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998)
[Most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the main writers of Russian literature and their principal works. Includes entries on 273 writers and 293 works. Covers Russian literature from the Kievan period to post-Communist writing. Arranged alphabetically.]

  HLR891.709

Dmitrieva, Rufina Petrovna. Bibliografiia russkogo letopisaniia (Moskva-Leningrad: Akademiia nauk SSSR,1962)
[Bibliography of Russian chronicles. A comprehensive bibliography of texts and critical literature relating to Russian chronicles]

  HLR947

Kratkaia literaturnaia entsiklopediia, ed. by A. A. Surov (Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1962-1978)
[9 volumes. Volume 9 includes an index. Series: Entsiklopedii, slovari, spravochniki]

  HLR803

Literaturno-khudozhestvennye al'manakhi i sbornik. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moskva: Vsesoiuznaia Knizhnaia Palata, 1954-60)
[4 volumes.]

  HUR891.708

Russkie pisateli vtoroi poloviny XIX - nachala XX vv. ( do 1917 goda). Rekomendatel'nyi ukazatel' literatury, ed. by R. N. Krendel & B. A. Peskinoi (Moskva: Gos. Biblioteka SSSR im. V. I. Lenin, 1958-63)
[3 volumes.]

  HLR891.708

Sovetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika. Russkaia sovetskaia literatura ( obshchie raboty): knigi i stati 1917-1962 godov. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moskva: Nauka, 1966)

also:
Sovetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika. Russkaia sovetskaia literatura ( obshchie raboty): knigi i stati 1963-1967 godov. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moskva: Nauka, 1970)

Sovetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika. Russkaia sovetskaia literatura: ukazatel' knig i statei za 1968-1970 gody. (Moskva: Nauka, 1975)

Sovetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika. Russkaia sovetskaia literatura: ukazatel' knig i statei za 1971-1973 gody (Moskva: Nauka, 1979)

  HLR891.709

Sukusova, M.V. Obshchie bibliografii russkikh knig grazhdanskoi pechati 1708-1955. Annotirovannyi ukazatel' , 2nd edn. (Leningrad, 1956)

HLL015.47

 Histories

The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, ed. by Charles A. Moser (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1992)
[Includes bibliography & index.]

  HLR891.709

Chizhevsky, Dmitro. History of Russian Literature from the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque (S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1960)
[Series: Slavistische drukken en herdrukken, no.12]

HLR891.709

Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature (New Haven. London : Yale University Press, 1991)
[Includes bibliography & index.]

HLR891.709

Muratova, Kseniya Dmitrievna. Istoriia russkoi literatury kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moskva-Leningrad: Akademii nauk, 1962-3)
[2 volumes.]

HLR891.7

 Literary criticism

Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1850 (New Haven. London. Yale University Press, 1995)
[Volume 7 includes a history of Russian literary criticism. Includes bibliography & index.]

  HLR801.95  

 Guides to English translations of Russian works

The Literatures of the World in English Translation: A Bibliography. Vol. II. The Slavic Literatures, compiled by Richard C. Lewanski (New York: New York Public Library, 1967)

HLR808.8

 Émigré literature

Foster, Ludmila A. Bibliography of Russian Émigré Literature 1918-1968 (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1970)
[Two volumes]

HLR891.7  

 Revolutionary literature

Russian Revolutionary Literature Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University: a descriptive guide and key to the collection on microfilm (New Haven: Research Publications Inc., 1976)

RAM094.30947 HA

  Siberian literature

Zdobnov, Nikolai Vasilevich. Materialy dlia sibirskogo slovaria pisatelei...predvaritel'nyi spisok poetov, belletristov, dramaturgov i kritikov (Letchworth: Prideaux Press, 1972)
[Series: Russian titles for the specialist, no.46]

HLR808.04917

 Music

General reference guides

Minstrels

Rock and jazz

Individual composers

 General reference guides

Beliaev, Viktor, M., Central Asian Music: Essays in the history of the music of the peoples of the USSR, ed. and annotated by Marc Slobin, tr. by Marc and Greta Slobin (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1975)
[Translation and abridgement of Ocherki po istorii muzyki narodov SSSR. Volume 1. (Moskva, Gos. muzykal'noe izdatel'stvo, 1962). Includes bibliography]

  HUS789.294

Bennett, John R. A Catalogue of vocal recordings from the Russian catalogues of the Gramophone Company Limited, Obshchestvo Grammofon c Ogr. Otv. 1899-1915 (Oakwood Press, 1977)

HUS782.001660947 GRA

Bennett, John R. Melodiya: a Soviet Russian LP discography, compiled by John R. Bennett, foreword by Boris Semeonoff and Anatoli Zhelezny (Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1981)
[Series: Discography, no. 6. Includes index]

HUS780/660947

Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers, ed. Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofenov (New York. London: Greenwood, 1989)

MUS780.92247

Moldon, David. A bibliography of Russian Composers (London: White Lion Publishers, 1976)

  MUS780.92247

Schwarz, Boris. Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1976) 

MUS780.947

Koltypina, G. B. Bibliografiia muzykal'noi bibliografii. Annotirovannyi perechen' ukazatelei literatury, izdannoi na russkom iazyke (Moskva: 1963)

  MUS780.162

Koltypina G. B. Spravochnaia literatura po muzyke. Slovari, sborniki biografii, kalendari, khroniki, pamiatnye knizhki, putevoditeli, sborniki libretto, sborniki tsitat. Ukazatel' izdanii na russkon iazyke 1773-1962 (Moskva, 1964) 

MUS780.162

Sovetskie kompozitory. Kratkii biograficheskii spravochnik. Compiled by G. Bernandt & A. Dolzhanskii (Moskva: Soiuz sovetskikh kompozitorov SSSR, 1957)

  MUS780.92247

Leuchtmann, Horst. Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus (Budapest: Akademian Kiado, 1978)
[A polyglot dictionary of musical terms in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian.]

MUS780.3

  Minstrels

Zguta, Russell. Russian Minstrels: a history of the skomorokhi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
[Includes index. Illustrated.]

HUS789.2917102  

 Rock and jazz

Troitsky, Artemy. Back in the USSR: the true story of rock in Russia (London: Omnibus, 1987) [Illustrated]

HUS789.400947

Troitsky, Artemy. Tusovka: Who's Who in the new Soviet Rock Culture (London: Omnibus, 1990)
[Illustrated]

HUS789.400947

Rocking the State: rock music and politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, ed. by Sabrina Petra Ramet (Boulder. Oxford : Westview Press, 1994)
[Includes index. Illustrated.]

  HUS789.400947

Starr, S. Frederick. Red and Hot: the fate of jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980 (New York, Oxford: O.U.P., 1983)
[Includes index. Illustrated]

HUS789.500947  

 Individual composers

Balakirev

Garden, Edward. Balakirev: A Critical Study of his Life and Music (London: Faber & Faber, 1967)
[Includes portraits and musical illustrations.]

MUS789 BALA

Chaliapin

Borovsky, Victor. Chaliapin: A Critical Biography (London: Hamilton, 1988)
[Includes index. Illustrated]

  HUS782.1092 CHA

Musorgskii

Musorgsky remembered. Compiled and ed. by Alexandra Orlov, trs. by Veronique Zaytzeff and Frederick Morrison. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991)
[Includes index. Illustrated]

MUS789 MUSO

Prokof'ev

Nestev, Izrail. Prokofiev (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960)
[Translated from the Russian by Florence Jonas]

  MUS789 PRO

Prokof'ev, S. S., Prokofiev by Prokofiev: a composer's memoir, abridged, ed. and tr. from the Russian by Guy Daniels (London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1979)
[Illustrated]

MUS789 PRO

Avtografy S. S. Prokof'eva v fondakh Gosudarstvennogo tsentral'nogo muzeia muzykal'noi kul'tury im. M. I. Glinki: spravochnik, compiled by F.A. Kransinskaia & M. K. Starodubtseva (Moskva: Sovetskii kompozitor, 1977)

  MUS789 PRO

Prokof'ev, S. S. Avtobiografiia, ed. by M. G. Kozlova (Moskva: Sovetskii kompozitor, 1982)
[Illustrated]

  MUS789 PRO

Rachmaninov

Martyn, Barrie. Rachmaninoff: composer, pianist, conductor (Aldershot: Scolar, 1990)
[Includes index]

HUS780.92 RAC
MUS789 RAC

Palmieri, Robert. Sergei Vasilevich Rachmaninoff: a guide to research (New York: Garland, 1985)
[Series: Garland Composer Resource Manuals, vol.3.]

MUS789 RAC

Threlfall, Robert & Norris, Geoffrey. A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff (London: Scolar, 1982) 

MUS789 RAC

Rimskii-Korsakov

Rimskii-Korsakov, N. A. My Musical Life: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakoff, tr. from the fifth revised ed. by Judith A. Joffe; ed. with an intro. by Carl Van Rechten (London: Erast Eulenberg Ltd., 1974)
[Illustrated]

MUS789 RIM

 Seaman, Gerald R., Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: a guide to research (New York: Garland, 1988)
[Series: Garland Composer Resource Manuals, vol. 17.]

MUS789 RIM

Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich: catalogue, bibliography and discography (Muir-of-Ord: Kyle & Glen Music, 1982)
[The Library also holds the 2nd edn, Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.]

  MUS789 SHO

Stravinsky

Caesar, Clifford. Igor Stravinsky, a complete catalogue (San Fransisco: San Fransisco Press, 1982)
[Illustrated. Includes indexes]

MUS789 STRAV

 Stravinsky, Igor. Selected Correspondence, ed. and with commentaries by Robert Croft,  Vol. 1 (London: Faber, 1984)
[Illustrated]

MUS789 STRAV

- Volume 2 (1984)

MUS789 STRAV

- Volume 3 (1985)

MUS789 STRAV

Taruskin, Richard. Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
[2 volumes. Illustrated. Includes index and bibliography]

MUS789 STRAV

Walsh, Stephen. The Music of Stravinsky (London: Routledge, 1988)

 MUS789 STRAV

Tchaikovskii

Brown, David. Tchaikovsky: a biographical and critical study (London: Gollanz, 1978-1991)
[4 Volumes. Volume 1: The Early Years: 1849-1874 (pub. 1978)
Volume 2: The Crisis Years: 1874-1878 (pub. 1982)
Volume 3: The Years of Wandering: 1878-1885 (pub. 1986)
Volume 4: The Final Years: 1885-1893 (pub. 1991)]

  MUS789 CHAI

Catalogue thématique des oeuvres de P. Tchaikowsky, rédigé par B. Jurgenson (London: H. Baron, 1965)
[Thematic catalogue. Reprint of the edn. published: Moscou: P. Jurgenson, 1987]

MUS789 CHAI

Chaikovskii, P. I. Letters to his Family: an autobiography, Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, translated by Galina von Meck, with additional annotations by Percy M. Young (New York: Stein & Day, 1981)

  MUS789 CHAI

Chaikovskii, P. I. To My Best Friend: Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck 1876-78, ed. by E. Garden and N. Gotteri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
[Translated from the Russian by G. von Meck. Illustrated]

MUS789 CHAI

 Orlova, A. A. Tchaikovsky: a self-portrait (Oxford: O.U.P., 1990)
[Illustrated]

MUS789 CHAI

 Newspapers

Alfavitnyi sluzhebnyi katalog russkikh dorevoliutsionnykh gazet 1702-1916 (Leningrad: Gos. Publichnaia Biblioteka im. M. E. Saltykova-Schcedrina, 1958)

HUR011.350947

 Official publications

Official Publications of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1945-1980: a select annotated bibliography, edited by Gregory Walker (London: Mansell, 1982)
[Includes index]

OPL947.0043

 Paper-making and watermarks

Tromonin, Kornily Yakovlevich. Iziasneniia znakov, vidimykh v pischei bumage/ Tromonin's Watermark Album: a facsimile of the Moscow 1844 edition, with additional materials by S. A. Klepikov, ed., translated and adapted for publication in English by J. S. G. Simmons (Hilverson: Paper Publications Society, 1965)
[Series: Monumenta chartae papyraccae historiam illustratia no.11]

RAR676.209

Uchastkina, Zoya Vasil'evna. A History of Russian Hand Paper-Mills and their watermarks...ed. and adpt. for publication in English by J.S.G. Simmons (Hilverson: Paper Publications Society, 1962)
[Series: Monumenta chartae papyraccae historiam illustratia no.9. Includes plates and maps]

RAR676.209

Geraklitov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Filigrani XVII veka na bumage rukopisnykh i pechatnykh dokumentov russkogo proiskhozdeniia, ed. A. N. Nasonov & A. A. Novosel'skii (Moskva: Izdarel'svo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963)
[Watermarks of the XVII century in the paper of manuscripts and printed documents of Russian origin]

  RAR676. 28027

Klepikov, Sokrat Aleksandrovich. Filigrani i shtempeli na bumage russkogo i inostrannogo proizvodstva XVII-XX veka (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoiuznoi Knizhnoi Palaty, 1959)
[Watermarks and stamps in paper of Russian and foreign production of the XVII-XX centuries. Illustrated.] 

RAR676. 28027

 Periodicals

Historical Periodicals Directory, eds. Eric H. Boehm, Barbara H. Pope and Marie S. Ensign. Vol. 3: Europe; East and South East; USSR (Santa Barbara, Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1984)
[Series: Clio Periodicals Directories. Includes index]

  HUR905.016

Smits, Rudolf. Half a Century of Soviet Serials, 1917-1968: a bibliography and union list of serials published in the USSR (Washington, 1968)
[Two volumes]

HUR011.340947

Belyaeva, Lyuisya Nikitichna. Bibliografiia periodicheskikh izdanii Rossii 1901-1916, (1958-1961)
[4 Volumes. A bibliography of Russian periodicals, 1901-1916. The material is listed alphabetically in the first 3 volumes - volume 4 contains indexes and a guide to historical periodicals.]

  HUR011.340947

Karasik, Vladimir. Evreiskie periodicheskie izdaniia Rossii 1960-1994 (Tel Aviv: Tel-Avivskii universitet, Institut izucheniia evreiskoi pressy, 1994)
[Jewish Periodicals in Russia, 1960-1994. Includes indexes]

OIC011.34

Lisovsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich. Russkaia periodicheskaia pechat' 1703-1900 gg. Bibliografiia i graficheskiia tablitsy. (Materialy dlia istorii russkoi zhurnalistiki) Petrograd, 1915
[A bibliography of the Russian periodical press, 1703-1900]

HUL011.340947

Masanov, Iurii Ivanovich, Ukazateli soderzhaniia russkikh zhurnalov i prodolzhaiushchikhsia izdanii 1735-1970 gg (Moskva: Kniga, 1975)

HUR011.340947

Periodicheskaia pechat' SSSR 1917-1949. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moskva: 1955-63)
[11 Volumes]

HUR011.340947

Périodiques slaves en caractères cyrilliques. État des collections en 1950, catalogue rédigé par E. Belin de Ballu (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, France, Departement des livres imprimés, 1956)
[2 volumes]

HUR011.340947

 Poetry

The Oxford Book of Russian Verse (Oxford, 1953)
[2nd edn. Supplemented by D. P. Costello]

HLR891.71

Tarasenkov, Anatoly Kuzmich. Russkie poety XX veka. 1900-1935. Bibliografiia. (Moskva, 1966)

  HLR891.714

 Politics

A source book on socialist international organizations, edited and translated by William E. Butler (Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978)
['All documents...translated from the Russian language text']

OPL341.242

 Religion

Akiner, Shirin. Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union (with an appendix on the non-Muslim Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union) (London: Kegan Paul, 1983)
[Includes bibliography and index]

OIF947.004

Bennigsen, Alexandre. Muslims of the Soviet Empire: a guide (London: Hurst, 1986)
[Includes bibliography and index. Illustrated]

OIF947.008

 Social life and customs

Parker, Tony. Russian Voices, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1991)

HUS301.092247

 Statistics

Pockney, B. P. Soviet Statistics since 1950 (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991)

OPL947.00212

Statistical handbook 1996: States of the former USSR / Statisticheskii sbornik, 1996 god: gosudarstva byvshego Sovetskogo Soiuza (Washington D.C.: World Bank, 1996)
[Series: Studies of economies in transformation 1014-997x, no.21. Parallel text in English and Russian]

OPL947.00212

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Tsentral'noe Statisticheskoi Upravlenie. Soviet Union 50 Years: Statistical Returns, ed. and prepared by V. N. Starovsky and others (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969)

OPL947.00212

Novaia Rossiia: informatsionno-statisticheskii al'manakh (Moskva: SP 'Vsia Moskva' Mezhdunarodnaia akademiia informatizatsii, 1994-)
[Illustrated]

OPL947.00212

 Theatre

Rubin, D. World encyclopaedia of contemporary theatre. 6 vols. (London: Routledge, 1994-2000)
[Volume 1 includes a section on Russia with a useful bibliography]

  HLR792.03

International Dictionary of Theatre, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (Chicago, London: St James Press, 1992-1996)
[3 Volumes. Volume 1: Plays; Volume 2: Playwrights; Volume 3: Actors, Directors, Designers]

HLR792

 Travel

Nerhood, Harry Warren. To Russia and Return: An annotated bibliography of travelers' English-language accounts of Russia from the Ninth Century to the Present (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968)

  HLR914.704