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A Chronology of Russian History This Web site dates the major (and some not so major) events in Russian history and links them with explanatory and related materials on the Web.

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Computer-Readable Databases: A Directory and Data Sourcebook. 7th ed. New York, 1991.

CD-ROMs in Print, 1992: An International Guide to CD-ROM, CD-I, CDTV and Electronic Book Products. London, 1992.

The library's collection of databases on CD-ROMs is divided into two groups. The Davis Library Networked CD-ROMs collection contains primarily bibliographic material. Colection of CD-ROMs in the Electronic Resources (Other CD-ROMs available in Electronic Resources) contains statistical and full-text materials, as well as some less-requested bibliographic materials. CD-ROMs must be requested from the Reference Desk. Please take time to explore the sites listed below.

Davis Library Networked CD-ROMs. Available from the computers at the Information Commons located across the hall from the Reference Department

Other CD-ROMs available in Electronic Resources. Request these CD-ROMs at the Reference Desk in Davis Library.

Electronic Resources for Doing Research in Slavic and East European Area Studies at UNC-CH

Mailing lists first appeared on Bitnet. The following list, however, gives internet addresses wherever possible, since Bitnet has been absorbed by the internet. A mailing list is basically a program devoted to distributing e-mail, or in terms perhaps more familiar to historians, a distribution list. The program has a list of subscriber addresses, and whenever it receives mail directed to the list, it mails a copy to everyone in its address book. This can be a problem: many people try to join mailing lists without learning the basics. Most mailing lists have two addresses: the address of the list itself (listname@sitename.domain: e.g. Russia@sovset.org) to which communications for public broadcast are sent, and an administrative address (usually listserv@samesitename.domain: e.g. listserv@sovset.org). Be sure that you send your subscription or removal request to the administrative address, not the list address itself, and read the mail packet which is always sent to a new subscriber.

Some lists are moderated, which means that the list owner approves all posts before sending them. This tends to reduce the chatter, but also inhibits the liveliness. Basic commands (which are sent to listserv, not the list itself):

The following represents only a basic list.

E-EUROPE@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Discussions on doing business in Eastern Europe and the transition of EE countries to market economies. Moderated, but one of the strongest lists.

INFO-RUSS@SMARTY.ECE.JHU.EDU Informal communication in the Russian-speaking community.

ORTHODOX@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU Discussion of Orthodox Christianity.

NEV@RENEWS.RELCOM.MSK.SU Send subscritpion requests to this address for RENEWS, a monthly digest on networking and computing in Russia.

LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu: Discussion of Russian history from Ivan III to 1917. See the companion list SOVHIST.

RUSSIA@ARIZVM1.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU General discussion of contemporary Russia. Until the owner resumed moderating in March 1993, this was the most important and liveliest of the lists. Companion list to UKRAINE.

SOVHIST@USCVM.BITNET Discussion of Soviet history since February 1917.

BURKOV@DRFMC.CENG.CEA.FR Send subscription requests to this address for the list SOVOKINFORM: CIS news, events, general information, usually in transliterated Russian.

AAG@CFEA.ECC.SPB.SU Send subscription requests to Elena Artemova at this address for St. Petersburg Business News: a daily commercial digest of business information from Russian newspapers, etc. Russian or English.

UKRAINE@ARIZVM1.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU Discussion of the Ukraine, a list complementary to the Russia list.

ArcheoBiblioBase Russian archival repositories and finding aids. Designed under the direction of P.K. Grimsted.

Biographical Database for the Soviet Bureaucracy, 1917-1941. J. Arch Getty and William Chase, Laboratory for Historical Research, UC Riverside. 28,000 people.

Database on Labor Unrest in Imperial Russia. Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia U.

The Soviet and East European Macroeconomic Databank. Soviet Studies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, available through Sovset.

Kaiser, Daniel, Databanks for a History of the Family in Early Modern Russia, Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Osprey, FL: Paradigm Press, 1987), 205-11.

The Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies has established a database of Western Research on Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

RUSCORP. Statistical profiles of all corporations chartered by the Russian government from 1704 to 1913. For mainframes or microcomputers with DBase III+. [Cost unknown]

ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies). Updated monthly, 1990- . Available only from UNC-CH IP addresses.

A Chronology of Russian History This Web site dates the major (and some not so major) events in Russian history and links them with explanatory and related materials on the Web.

Former Republic Academies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Jack L. Cross. This publication is available in PDF format and requires the Acrobat Reader.

Guide to the Russian Academy of Sciences by Jack L. Cross. This publication is available in PDF format and requires the Acrobat Reader.

Russgus. A database of 170,000 citations on Russia, the USSR, and its successor states. It lists German-language publications dealing with the CIS. Beginning with 1975, coverage is very inclusive and is updated regularly. Russgus is produced by the Dokumentationszentrum fur das Schrifttum aus und der Freien Universitat Berlin.

Russian History on the Web (CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE) by Marshall Poe. A critical guide to web resources related to Russian history. Includes only those resources that are: a) reasonably accurate; b) neutral in tone and intent; c) likely to be of use to researchers and students of Russian history.Soviet Archives Collection of documents secretly copied by Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky from the archives of the KPSS (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), including KGB ("Komitet Gosudarstevennoi Bezopasnosti") reports to the KPSS Central Committee.

BBC World Service

Deutsche Welle Online

Golos Rossii (in Russian) The Voice of Russia (in English)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Voice of America

Central Asian Studies World Wide Resources for the Study of Central Asia