Sheehy, Eugene P. Guide to Reference Books. 10th ed. Chicago, 1986.

Totok, Wilhelm. Handbuch der bibliographischen Nachshlagewerke. 6th ed. Frankfurt, 1984.

Walford, Albert John, ed. Walford's Guide to Reference Material. 5th ed. London, 1989- [See especially vols. 2 and 3]

White, Carl M. Sources of Information in the Social Sciences: A Guide to the Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago, 1986.

American Historical Association. Guide to Historical Literature. New York, 1961.

Historical Abstracts [Does Not Contain Full Text]

Poulton, Helen J. The Historian's Handbook: A Descriptive Guide to Reference Works. Norman, 1972. [Good guide for undergraduate students.]

ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)

Morley, Charles. Guide to Research in Russian History. Syracuse, 1951. [Although dated, this remains the basic English-language guide, especially for prerevolutionary history.]

Maichel, Karol. Guide to Russian Reference Books. Vol. 2, History, Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Ethnography, and Geography. Stanford, 1964. [Part of a six-volume set, vol. 2 discusses historical bibliographies, indexes, and other reference tools.]

USSR: Facts and Figures Annual 1977-1992. Changed title to Russia & Eurasia facts & figures annual beginning in 1993- v.18

Buchenkov, Aleksei Nikolaevich. Sovetskoe kraevedcheskoe bibliografovedenie, 1984.

Chernomorskii, Moisei Naumovich. Istochnikovedenie istorii SSSR: Sovetskii period. 2nd ed. Moscow, 1976.

Istochnikovedenie istorii Sovetskogo obshchestva. N.A. Ivnitskii, ed. Moscow, 1964-. [Essays on sources, especially good for the 1917-1924 period.]

Istochnikovedenie istorii Sovetskogo obshchestva: Ukazatel' literatury. G.A. Trukan, otv. red. Moscow, 1987.

Istochnikovedenie istorii SSSR. I.D. Koval'chenko, ed. Moscow, 1973.

Istochnikovedenie istorii SSSR XIX-nachala XX v. Moscow, 1970. [Helpful discussions of sources dealing with late Imperial Russia.]

Istochnikovedenie istorii Velikogo Oktiabriia: Sbornik statei. G.A. Trukan, otv. red. Moscow, 1977.

Problemy istochnikovedeniia istorii SSSR i spetsial'nykh istoricheskikh ditsiplin: Stat'i i materialy. I.D. Koval'chenko, otv. red. Moscow, 1984.

A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s. Sheila Fitzpatrick and Lynne Viola, eds. Armonk, 1990. [A collection of articles on sources for social history of Russia in the late 1920s and 1930s. Originally published as Russian History 12:3/4 (1987): 141-85; DK1 .R74

Rubinstein, Nikolai Leonidovich. Russkaia istoriografiia. Moscow, 1941. [After slipping through the censorship apparatus, this study of historiography, long considered a classic, caused a storm of controversy for failing to adhere to Stalinist formulae.]

Tikhomirov, Mikhail Nikolaevich. Istochnikovedenie istorii SSSR: Uchebnoe posobie. Moscow, 1962-