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Russian and East European Studies

Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopedia of Russian History - Olin Ref DK 14 .E53 - Four volumes providing a comprehensive discussion of Russia's people, politics, economics, religion and social systems.
  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture - Olin Ref DK 510.32 .E53 - Recent (post-Stalin) and contemporary Russian culture and history.
  • Encyclopedia of Russian women's movements - Olin Ref HQ 1665.15 .E5 - Individuals and organizations associated with Russian women's movements from the early 19th century to the post-Soviet era.
  • Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic myth and legend - Olin Ref BL 930 .D58 - Overview of the people, places, stories, and events featured in this body of literature.

Guides/Summaries

  • Russia: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present - Olin Ref DK 36 .B59 - Essays, historical dictionary, biographies, topical entries, chronologies, and maps of Russian history and culture.
  • BFI compantion to Eastern European and Russian cinema - Olin Ref PN 1993.5 .E82 B45 - British Film Institute's guide to the cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR.
  • A comprehensive Russian grammar - Olin Ref PG 2106 .W33 - A definitive guide to current Russian usage, taking many of its examples from the press and contemporary literary sources.
  • Reference guide to Russian literature - Olin Ref PG 2940 .R43
  • Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands, and culture - Olin Ref DJK 9 .E25 - Three volumes of essays examining cultural, political, and economic developments in addition to geography and history.

Dictionaries

  • Oxford Russian Dictionary - Olin Ref PG 2640 .W5 -Russian/English translation dictionary.
  • Dictionary of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions - Olin Ref PG 2752 .S57 - Words and their popular meanings that you wont find in standard Russian-English dictionaries.
  • Dictionary of Russia: 2500 cultural terms - Olin Ref DK 32 .K23
  • A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe - Olin Ref DJK 42 .P65 - Covers the countries, the region's ethnic groups, political parties, prime ministers, presidents, business organizations, geographical features, religions and border disputes.

Maps

  • Cultural atlas of Russia and the former Soviet Union - Olin Ref DK 32 .M62 - A guide to geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, and the arts in text, maps, and illustrations.
  • Atlas of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - Olin Ref G 2080 .C7