Selected Russian & East Central Europe Resources

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Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

Databases
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.  
• *CIAO-Columbia International Affairs Online (1991-  )
  The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
• *EconLit with Full Text
  Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the world′s foremost source of references to economic literature. Also includes full text for more than 430 journals including titles from the American Economic Association, such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. The database contains more than 735,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
• *Facts.com
  Brings together content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. The seven databases are Facts On File World News Digest; Issues and Controversies On File; Today′s Science On File; Editorials On File; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; Reuters On-Line News Service; The World Almanac and Book of Facts. FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.
• FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (Sipri)
  Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all.
• *Lexis-Nexis (includes Congressional Universe, Statistical Universe)
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It couples the convenience of the Internet with the power of Lexis-Nexis services so you can quickly and easily retrieve documents that meet your specific research needs.
• *Military and Intelligence Database
   The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• PAIS [print Ref Z7164.E2 P34]
• *World News Connection
  An extremely valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC). Analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.

Online Journals & News
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *SerialsSolutions Index of Online Journals in Law, Politics and Government
• *JSTOR Political Science Journals
• *JSTOR Slavic Studies Journals
• *Blackwell Online Political Science Journals
• BBC
• CNN: Europe
• Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports; Open CRS; University of North Texas CRS Reports
• EurasiaNet.org
  EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The web site also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews and book reviews.
• Moscow Times
• *New York Times Digital Image Edition
• *Newsbank
  "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times.
• *Oxford Online Journals
• Online Newspapers.com
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline
• World Newspapers.com
• Policy Review (Hoover Institution)
• Prague Daily Monitor
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline
  RFE/RL Newsline is a daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is based on news gathered by the correspondents, services and regional specialists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
• Russian National News Service
• St. Petersburg Times
• Russia Today
• *Wall Street Journal, 1984-
  The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
• *Washington Post (1977-  )
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level

Online Reference Sources
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History
• *Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
• *Chambers World History
• CIA World Factbook and *Here
• *Concise Atlas of World History (Andromeda)
• *Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
• *Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *Dictionary of Diplomacy
• *Dictionary of Political Biography
• *Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present
• *Dictionary of World History
• *Dynasties of the World 
• *Encyclopedia of World History
• Europa World Yearbook [Print Ref: JN1 .E85}
• *Hutchinson Chronology of World History
• *Online Maps (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
• *Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
• *Oxford Companion to World War II
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
• *Oxford Guide to Countries of the World
• *Oxford Companion to Military History
• Statesman′s Yearbook [Print Ref: JA51 .S7]
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century

Websites - Russia

• Constitution of the Russian Federation
• Country Links (DMOZ)
  The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
• Duma (in Russian)
• Government of the Russian Federation (in Russian)
• International Affairs Resources (WWW VL)
• International Relations Resources (Library of Congress)
• International Relations Sources (Fletcher School, Tufts)
• International Relations and Security Network
  The ISN is a free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide.
• NSA - National Security Adminstration Documents
• Nationmaster  
  Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
• Portals to the World - Russia (Library of Congress) 
• REENIC - Russian and East European Network Information Center (U of Texas)|
  Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union region (general resources)
• REESWeb: WWW VL for Russian and East European Studies
• Russia-Eurasia (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• Russia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Russian Economy Website (Hoover Institution)
  Welcome to our web site on the Russian economy.  We encourage you to add our site to your list of bookmarks or favorites.  The object of this site is to provide scholarly discussion and analysis of Russia’s economy in global perspective.  We address the issues surrounding contraction, recovery, and economic growth in Russia and other post-central plan economies, giving special attention to comparisons with China.
• Russian Federation (in Russian with some documents in English); DUMA; Council of Federation; President (English);
• Russia Profile.org
  RUSSIA PROFILE is an English-language information service offering expert analysis of Russian politics, economics, society and culture. It consists of a website and magazine.
• Russian Studies Resources (Bucknell)
• Russia - Research Help (Library of Congress)
• Soviet Archives Exhibit
  This exhibit, also shown in Moscow, is a milestone in this process -- the first public display of the hitherto highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule. The legendary secretiveness and general inaccessibility of the entire Soviet archival system was maintained throughout the Gorbachev era. The willingness of the new Russian Archival Committee under Pikhoia to cooperate in preparing this exhibit with the Library of Congress dramatizes the break that a newly democratic Russia is attempting to make with the entire Soviet past. They are helping to turn material long used for one-sided political combat into material for shared historical investigation in the post-Cold War era.
• United Nations Website
• University of Michigan Documents Center
  The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
• World Political Leaders 1945- see also Rulers.

Websites - Eastern & Central Europe

• At Cold War′s End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 (CIA)
  As a contribution to the conference, CSI prepared a compendium of newly declassified US intelligence documents covering the years 1989-1991
• BISNIS
  BISNIS is the U.S. Government′s primary market information center for U.S. companies exploring export and investment opportunities in Russia and Eurasia. BISNIS provides U.S. companies with the latest market reports and tips on developments, export and investment leads, and strategies for doing business in Russia and Eurasia.
• Beyond the Fall: The Former Soviet Bloc in Transit
  For 10 years following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, TIME contract photographer Anthony Suau has traveled the lands of the former Soviet bloc. In the hundreds of powerful images and audio commentaries that follow, Suau documents in stark detail the people of that region as they shed their former skin and head into an unknown future.
• Central Europe Online
• Central Europe Review
• Chernobyl Information
• DMOZ Links to Central and East Europe Websites; Caucasus Region; Balkans; Baltic Sea
• Eastern Europe Resources (WWW VL for International Affairs)
• Erik Herron′s Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia
• FOIA Electronic Reading Room
  The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents
• Guide to Slavonic and East European Internet Sources (British Library)
• Internet Resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia (University  College London)
  The following pages contain links to selected resources on the region, chosen to support the School′s teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• National Security Archives (George Washington University)
  An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.  
• Slavophilia: Slavic and East European Resources
• Portals to the World - Central and Eastern Europe (Library of Congress)