Guides to Russian Archives

The Guides to Russian Archives database includes forty-one guides, ten for federal archives and thirty-one for regional archives, published in Russia between 1987 and 2004. This database provides descriptions of over 100,000 groups of documents called fondy. Functionalities of the database enable the user to do global searches across all guides by keywords, combinations of keywords, and exact phrases enclosed in quotation marks. Advanced searches are also possible in specific database fields: for example, title, annotation, description, or within a specified date range. It is also possible to do all these searches within one or several selected guides.

Excellent indexes make it possible to find information even when the user is not familiar with the specific vocabulary of the archival guides. The browsing functionalities list all the guides by title and lead the user directly to a particular guide where keyword searching can be done. The database is accompanied by an excellent description of the content and functionalities, and there is a detailed user guide (in Russian).

CIA Electronic Reading Room

CIA Electronic Reading Room contains declassified historically significant Agency documents released to the National Archives. Currently this project includes the following subdivisions:

• Declassified National Intelligence Estimates on the Soviet Union and International Communism
• Declassified Intelligence Estimates on Selected Free World Countries
• Declassified Intelligence Analyses on the Former Soviet Union Produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence
• The National Intelligence Council (NIC) Collection
• The Princeton Collection

Indexes to these documents are arranged by year. Unfortunately there is no indication in the indexes whether or not full text of these documents is available online. However Search (the button located in the right frame) retrieves full-text documents as graphic images. It is also unclear whether the full-text documents are the same as in the CIA's Historical Review Program indexes.

Access to the following databases is restricted to UNC-Chapel Hill affiliates:

This includes students, faculty, and staff with a valid UNC-Chapel Hill 9-digit PID (Person ID) or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill with an AHEC Digital Library account. They may access these resources from off-campus (Instructions). Some of these databases are searchable in both Cyrillic and Latin characters. If you are using the public computers in Davis Library and the House Undergraduate Library, press the key combination ALT + SHIFT to toggle between Russian and English.

The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

Vestnik Evropy

AAASS NewsNet Archive

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