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This paper examines the character, structure, and fate of the archive of the Russian military attaché in Japan. This investigation describes the multidimensional and complex nature of the archive, incorporating several independent volumes of documents associated mostly with activities surrounding Russian supply commissions in Japan from 1914 to 1921. The author highlights the crucial role of the Russian All-Military Union in saving the historical records of the Russian Army and emphasizes that these activities, ignored until now in the description of existing collections, constitute an important contextual background of the archive that symbolically reflects the drama of Russian postrevolutionary epoch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper recounts the details of the purchase of the historian E. A. Presniakov's Russian library by the Columbia University Library in 1930 and gives a general description of its components and significance. It uses the library as the basis for a general assessment of the breadth and depth of Presniakov historical contributions, concluding that the originality of insight and interpretation place him among a number of great prerevolutionary historians. The lateness of his professional development, culminating after the Bolshevik seizure of power and during the vicissitudes of the 1920s, and then his early death by cancer have deprived him of that recognition. This paper describes and assesses his major works on medieval Russia, the Lithuanian-Russian state and Ukraine, as well as his late writings on nineteenth century monarchs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on three important Library of Congress staff members from the period 1941–2015 to describe the library's interaction with Russia and the Soviet Union and the buildup of the library's Russian and Soviet collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Video appeals to the president of Russia are a primary source of unprecedented richness for the study of various aspects of contemporary Russian life. Online videos are recorded by diverse groups and individuals in Russia as attempts to prompt President V.V. Putin to directly resolve specific social, economic, cultural, and environmental problems; and to express opinions on a variety of issues or to wish him well. The content of this material and its role as a historical source can be compared to epistolary archives and, specifically, letters to the authorities written by Soviet citizens. This paper describes an experimental project in collecting, preserving, and providing access to these videos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper traces the growth of the Muslim press in Russia, its consolidation, and its survival during the Soviet Period, followed by its revival in the early 1990s. Although by no means comprehensive in scope, it is a necessary step in beginning to shed light on this under-researched topic. These unique publishing cultures represent outlets for freedom of expression, even in controlled cultural spaces, and document the intellectual protest among Muslim communities in Russia. Understanding the contributions of various Muslim publishing centres is critical to gaining a broader view of Russian and Soviet Studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though well known for its historical and political collections, the Hoover Institution Library also has a small but valuable collection of books and periodicals on Russian art, which was collected by Professor Frank Golder in the Soviet Union in 1925. The collection consists basically of items from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on subjects ranging from painting to illustrated travel accounts. It also includes some older books with unusual bindings of considerable value, some of which are from imperial libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article discusses the University of California-Berkeley's collection of select rare books from Imperial Russia and its predecessor states while relating this tracing to the history of printing in Russia. For this case study, a sample of pre-Petrine era and early Imperial Russian books that were published before 1800 was gathered and analyzed for the subject distribution. This article provides some historical background on how this collection evolved over the history of UC Berkeley. The collection was also analyzed based on Old Church Slavonic and Russian along with the places of imprints within the Russian Empire. The purpose of this case study was to document the rare books from pre-Imperial and Imperial Russia while providing the ancillary yet useful information about the Russian Studies collection development at UC Berkeley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harold M. Leich's outstanding service as a Slavic librarian from 1969 to 2019 earned him the Distinguished Service Award of the Committee on Libraries and Information Resources, delivered during the 2019 annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). He began as a cataloger at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where six years later he was promoted to Librarian for Slavic and East European Acquisitions. From 1987 until retirement he served at the Library of Congress as Russian Area Specialist. For his last 20 years there he also served as the specialist for Modern Greek. He assisted Dr. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and noted scholar of Russia, with many projects. Over his career, Leich produced more than 50 publications, mostly concerning Russian materials, but also on Modern Greek collections as well as on book matters relating to other countries. He participated on many ASEEES committees, and he also served on committees for the American Library Association, the Modern Greek Studies Association, and other societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethnocentrism affects perception and choices, and scholars, teachers, and students may not see or seek the "global" in our "global information revolution," especially in such vast monolingual social spaces as the United States and the Anglophone world. Russia illuminates how unfortunate this state of affairs is because perceptions of Russia are so negative; whereas online information and open access there are so plentiful. Elibrary.ru offers free, full-text access to Russia's periodical scholarship in all disciplines. Postnauka.ru is a lecture platform for Russian academics that rivals TED Talks in scale and production quality. Kul'tura is a federal television channel devoted entirely to education. Academic talk shows constitute part of the programming there and elsewhere. High-quality and reliable online tools such as these can enhance "Western" scholars' and educators' resource repertoires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article describes the life of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920) through the correspondence with her parents: the Emperor of Russia Alexander II, the Empress and close friends. The accent is on Grand Duchess's life in Great Britain after her marriage in 1874 to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900), second son of the Queen Victoria but also about her life in the Duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after 1893 with frequent visits to her family in Russia. The letters give us important information about the Grand Duchess's life, her children, and her social contacts with political and diplomatic circles of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We may not think of Russia as an advanced information society with open access to its scholarship, but it is. The Russian Electronic Library at elibrary.ru offers us twenty-eight million academic journal articles, essays in edited volumes, book reviews, and other texts from all disciplines, many of them in PDF full text and free to download. All of Russia's periodical scholarship is open to the world in elibrary.ru. Just one keyword search, for "Чешская республика" [Czech Republic], brings us 863 results, 372 of them (forty-three percent) in full text. We can find much more writing about Czech subjects with other search terms, but even this single corpus of 863 results shows us the diversity of scholars, interests, and perspectives in Russia on the Czech Republic and the Czech people in the past and present. The Russian Electronic Library can help us reduce ethnocentrism in Czech studies. It gives us open access to a diverse and unfolding scholarship outside the Czech Republic, the European Union and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important resources for social and family historians researching the former Russian Empire are the revision lists, a series of ten enumerations of the population conducted between 1719 and 1858. Listing the members of each household among taxable classes of people across the Russian Empire, the revision lists are useful for studying historical population demographics and reconstructing family relationships. An awareness of these records and where to access them can be useful for Slavic librarians to facilitate the research of Russian historians and genealogists. This article provides an overview of the history and content of the revision lists with a survey of available collections online and offline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author recalls her professional relationship and close, personal friendship with Katia Genieva, the long-time director of the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article introduces readers and scholars interested in Russian art, considered broadly, to collections housed at one of the major repositories in the United States, Stanford University Libraries (SUL), with the adjacent Hoover Institution Library (although it concentrates on SUL). In general, the two collections complement each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors provide a brief history of the firm now called East View Information Services. From its beginning in 1989 as a sole-proprietorship company, it has grown from microfilming the back file of a single Soviet journal to being a subscription agent, book vendor, database aggregator, provider of maps and other geospatial information, and more—from Slavic countries, East Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]