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castle Microform Collections

The UNC University Libraries hold many microfilms and microfiche of serials and monographs that can be found via the University Libraries catalog. This page will give you a partial list of microform collections in Slavic and East European area studies held by the Libraries. For a more comprehensive overview of these microform holdings, consult the list of Microforms: Russia, Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet State Serials.

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State [microform]. [Cambridge, England] : State Archival Service of Russia [and] Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in association with Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1993-. Over 10,000 microfilm reels; 35 mm.
Notes:
A collection of finding aids (opisi) and records (dela) documenting the activities of the Soviet State and Communist Party from 1917 until 1991. Microfilmed from the holdings of the Center for the Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD) [now called the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI)], the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents from Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI) [now called the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI), and the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF).
A significant component of this collection is Fond 89: The Soviet Communist Party on Trial in its entirety, including opisi and dela. Fond 89 contains a large number of memoranda and reports prepared by the Secretariat of the Central Committee and the Central Committee's departments. Among the most interesting are reports of subsidies—the so-called "Moscow Gold"—made to "friends" (foreign Communist parties). Opisi to other fonds are purchased as funds permit. The dela will be purchased last.
Accompanied by printed guide (3d ed.) issued in 2002 with the title Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State : Catalogue of Finding Aids and Documents, as well as the lengthier 2001 publication, Fond 89 : Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial : Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State : Guide to the Microfilm Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-4739

Boris I. Nikolaevsky Archive. Microform collection. UMI
This archive contains hundreds of thousands of rare and valuable documents relating to the Russian revolution. The collection provides unparalleled documentation of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian revolutionary movements, including the anarchists, the populists, and the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER:1-4449

Eighteenth Century Russian Publications. Continuing microfilm series, 1964- . Publisher: General Microfilm/Erasmus Press/Omni Systems. Collection is based on the Kondakov, I. P., ed., Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka, 1725 - 1800 in 5 volumes. Moscow : Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka SSSR imeni V.I. Lenina, 1962-67.
LOCATION: Davis Reference -- CALL NUMBER: Z2502 .S9
As of August 2009 the Library holds the following reels: 31, 64-65, 95-96, 144, 261, 264, 268, 304, 326, 335, 342-343, 366, 430-431, 466, 491, 557, 564, 636-658.
To browse individual authors and works, search the University Libraries catalog under the series title Eighteenth Century Russian Publications.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-3265 -
HOLDINGS AT OTHER LIBRARIES: Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has reels 1-322. The University of Washington has the entire collection.

Everyday Stalinism [microform] / Russian State Archive of Economy (RGAE). Leiden: IDC, 2001. 1141 microfiches.
Contains archival material declassified in 1993 that provides an insight into the socialist society of the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s and the cultural and political interests and economic situation of the ordinary Soviet citizen of that period through surveys administered to young workers, kolkhozniki and students. Documents produced by the Labor Statistics Department form the core of the collection; they contain information on every aspect of labor of interest to the Soviet government, including budgets, efficiency, fines, salaries, expenditures, distribution of women and others in various professions, housing, clothing, food, medical care, recreational habits. The statistical and analytical data cover various cities, regions and ethnic groups (Moscow, Leningrad, Ukraine, Ural, Volga Germans and many others).
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll. -- CALL NUMBER: 1-4119
Online summary and Finding Aid
accessible through the University Libraries catalog.

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Russia correspondence, 1883-1905 [microfilm] / British Foreign Office. Wilmington, Del. : Microfilmed for Scholarly Resources by the Public Record Office under special arrangement with H.M. Stationary Office, 1977-1981.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-1738
This collection is accompanied by several guides, including:
British Foreign Office Russia correspondence, 1883-1905 : guide to the Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Public Record Office collection, text F.O. 65. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1980-1982.
LOCATION: Davis Reference -- CALL NUMBER: Z6465.G7 B746 1980

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Russia correspondence, 1906-1948 [microfilm] / British Foreign Office. Wilmington, Del.: Microfilmed for Scholarly Resources by the Public Record Office under special arrangement with H.M. Stationary Office, 1977-1981.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-1739
This collection is accompanied by the following guide:
British Foreign Office Russia correspondence, 1906-1945: guide to the Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Public Record Office collection, text F.O. 371, registers F.O. 566. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, Inc., c1976-c1980.
LOCATION: Davis Reference -- CALL NUMBER: Z6465.G7 B747 1976

Leaders of the Russian Revolution. Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey in association with the Russian. Committee for Archives, 1992. Description of the Collection (Note: this description is on a Yale University server.) To locate the microfiche use the UNC-CH call numbers provided below
LOCATION: Davis Microform Collection Microfiche (DMCM)
CALL NUMBER:
Martov L. 1873-1923 DMCM 1-3783
Zasulich, Vera Ivanovna 1849-1919 DMCM 1-3793
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo 1886-1937 DMCM 1-4531
Kirov, Sergei Mironovich 1886-1934 DMCM 1-4530
Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich 1896-1948 DMCM 1-4522
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890 - DMCM 1-3788
Trotsky, Leon 1879-1940 DMCM 1-3789
Aksel'rod, Pavel Borisovich 1850-1928 DMCM 1-3787
Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich 1875-1946 DMCM 1-4529

Leaders of the Russian Revolution : a guide to the microfilm collection / series editor, Jana Howlett. Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey in association with the Russian Committee for Archives, 1994.
CALL NUMBER: Z2510 .L32 1994

Lenin to Khrushchev [microopaque] : the USSR in retrospect, 1917-1956. New York : Readex Microprint Corp., 1978-
A collection of pamphlets, booklets and brochures begun in 1926 by the American Russian Cultural Association, and made available through the courtesy of Prof. Bernard Koten and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library of New York University. Text in English and Russian.
Guide to External Affairs has call no.: MRR Microprint 1-5 Guide v. 1.
This guide can also be found in the Reference Department under the title:
Lenin to Khrushchev : the USSR in retrospect, 1917-1956 external affairs : checklist of the Readex Microprint collection. New York, N.Y. (101 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003) Readex Microprint Corp., c1980-
CALL NUMBER: Z6465.R9L464
Guide to Internal Affairs has call no.: MRR Microprint 1-5 Guide v.2.

Menshevik newspapers and periodicals.
Stanford University. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Menshevik Collection. Stanford University, 1967. 76 reels
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll -- CALL NUMBER: DK265.A15S8
Index CALL NUMBER: DK265.A15S8. Index

Polnoe sobranie postanovlenii i rasporiazhenii po viedomstvu pravoslavnago ispoviedaniia Rossiiskoi Imperii [microform]. Sanktpeterburg : V Sinodal'noi tip., 1869-1915.19 v. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1980. 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Contents:
Seriia 1. 1721-1741 (10 v.)
Seriia 2. TSarstvovanie Elizavety Petrovny, TSarstvovanie Petra Feodorovicha: 1741-1762 (4 v.)
Seriia 3. TSarstvovanie Ekateriny II: 1762-1796 (3 v.)
Seriia 4 TSarstvovanie Pavla I: 1796-1801 (1 v.)
Seriia 5. TSarstvovanie Nikolaia I: 1825-1835 (1 v.)
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-4714

The Russia Company: minute books & treasurer' accounts, 1667-1955. London :World Microfilms; New York, N.Y.: Dstributed by Clearwater Pub. Co., 1982.10 microfilm reels; 35mm
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-2823

Russian history and culture : a microfiche collection of scarce books on 19th- and early 20th-century Russia from Helsinki University. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, c1978-
UNC-CH has a regional responsibility for purchasing this large collection of materials not available in the United States from the Helsinki Library. This Finnish library was a depository of the Russian empire. After the Russian revolution of 1917, many publications were purged by the Bolsheviks. Materials held at the Helsinki Library have survived. The collection is accompanied by a printed guide entitled Russian History and Culture Index. The guide is located in the Microform Department (Davis Library, 2nd floor)behind the desk
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfiche -- CALL NUMBER: 1-2241

Russian revolutionary literature at Houghton Library of Harvard University. Research Publications, 1973.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll Microfilm -- CALL NUMBER: 1-2951

Based on the holdings of the Harvard University Houghton Library and supplemented with materials from additional sources, the Russian Revolutionary Literature Collection on microfilm offers over 1,000 titles by anonymous and well-known authors in and around Russia. The classic collection originated from a box of materials on the revolutionary movement offered in 1896 by Ivan Panin, the American correspondent of the Geneva publication Obshchee delo. From that box came such rare and valuable titles as Listok Narodnoi voli, Nabat, Obshchee delo, and Vestnik Narodnoi voli. The collection dates as far back as the report of a commission on the 1825 Decembrists' uprising. It also contains materials by Aleksander Herzen, to whom the origins of Russian socialism can be traced, along with the writings of Bakunin, Chernyshevskii, Tkachev, Plekhanov, Kropotkin, Chernov, Martov, Trotskii, Lenin. In addition to books, pamphlets, and journals by these and other authors, there are hundreds of ephemeral pieces, mostly anonymous or pseudonymous, which were distributed among the workers and peasants, particularly before and during the Revolution of 1905. The collection includes writings of various groups and intellectual persuasions, from the early anarchists and populists on up to the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Lenin's Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Most of this revolutionary material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but the Russian Revolutionary Literature Collection also includes a number of legally issued publications of major authors, as well as monarchist broadsides, plus some official "Tsarist publications about the revolutionary movement."
Bibliographic Aids:
Houghton Library. Russian revolutionary literature collection : a descriptive guide and key to the collection on microfilm. Research Publications, 1976.
LOCATION: Davis Reference -- CALL NUMBER: Z2509 .H3

Samizdat Russian Newspapers.
A collection of unofficial Russian Newspapers published between 1988 and 1992. Collected and published on microfiche by the Institut gumanitarno-politicheskikh issledovanii. Arkhiv M-BIO
NOT YET CATALOGED

"Smolensk Archive" Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza. Smolenskii oblastnoi komitet. Partiinyi arkhiv. [Records of the All-Union Communist Party, Smolensk District, 1917-41]. Washington, 195?. [75 reels of microfilm:T87 reels 1-69; T84 reels 27-28; T88 reels 1-4. NCSU has all of T87, which is commonly considered the complete archive. UNC has reels 1-17, two copies of 18-20, reels 21-56, and 61-68 of T87; reels 1-3 of T88; and reels 27-28 of T84. T87 reel one contains two guides to the archive; there are printed guides in the stacks, in govt. docs., and in the microform reading room: Guide to the Records of the Smolensk Oblast of the All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1917-1941]
LOCATION: Davis Microform Coll. Microfilm 1-1269 [=T87 reels 1-56, 18-20, 61-68]
Microfilm 1-2611 [= T88 reels 1-3] and Microfilm 328.43 G373 [=T84, reels 27-28]
Guide: Microforms Reading Room, Govt. Docs.
Preliminary draft, guide: DK511 .S7 K61 Index

Sanktpeterburgskiia viedomosti [microform serial].Sanktpeterburg : Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk, 1728-1917. [Title S-Peterburgskiia viedomosti 1863-1917]. Microfilm produced by IDC.
Russia's first newspaper, launched by Peter the Great as a biweekly publication, served as an outlet for the government as well as a profit-making enterprise for the publishers. The first two or three pages contained decrees, information on visits to court and other official news, followed by local and foreign news, required announcements of departures of foreigners, and anything else deemed newsworthy. Contains a wealth of information that can be found nowhere else and provides insight into how the government wished to portray itself, the outside world, and its relations with that world. The library owns the complete microfilms for 1728-1815, and is gradually filling in gaps in the quite extensive holdings for the following hundred years. A Guide is kept in the Microforms Collection.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll. -- CALL NUMBER 1-842

Soviet Biographic Archive, 1954-1985 microform]. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. 2,812 microfiches. Published in association with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc. and the Hoover Institution.
A working clippings file compiled and kept current for the benefit of the staff of RFE/RL Inc., the `Red Archive' covers a vast range of public figures, from listParty and State officials, members of the security apparatus and military personnel to directors of enterprises, chairmen of kolkhozes and prominent scientists, artists and journalists. Consists of one million clippings from over 35 newspapers and magazines and abstracts on over 50,000 people arranged by name in Russian alphabetic order.
LOCATION: Davis Microforms Coll. -- CALL NUMBER: 1-4150

For more comprehensive information see Research Guide to Soviet History Based on Materials at Davis Library, UNC-Chapel Hill by Professor Donald J. Raleigh and Nadia Zilper.

 

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