Encyclopedias
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union - DK 14.C35 1994 - Essays organized around broad topics, covering the geography, peoples, history, culture, politics,economics, etc. of Russia and the surrounding areas it has influenced and periodically controlled.
Dictionaries
Russian/English Dictionaries - PG 2001-2899
Guides/Summaries
Year's Work in Modern Language Studies - Ref PB 1 .Y45 - Annual review evaluating scholarly work on languages and literatures other than English. Reference Guide to Russian Literature - PG 2940 .R43 1998 - Essays on historical periods of Russian literature, and biographical and critical summaries of significant Russian writers. Cambridge History of Russian Literature - PG 2951 .C36 1992 - Extensive essays on historical periods of Russian literature from the beginnings of Russia to the end of the Soviet era. Dictionary of Russian Women Writers - PG 2997 .D53 1994 - Biographical and critical essays on Russian women writers. Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose - PG 3093 .R79 1998 - From the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, a collection of critical essays on Russian writers from the Napoleonic to the Crimean Wars.