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Bibliographic Databases with links to full text

Historical Abstracts
Link to articles on Russian and Soviet history.

ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
Locate North American scholarship on Russia, the former Soviet Union, and East-Central and Eastern Europe.

EBSEES Online (European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
Locate West European scholarship on Russia, the former Soviet Union, and East-Central and Eastern Europe.


Full Text Databases

Academic Search Premier
Find popular and scholarly articles in a variety of academic fields.

Universal Databases
Access newspapers, periodicals, and journals from Russia, the Baltics, and the Newly Independent States. Includes Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press. Articles in Russian and English.

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
A weekly publication that presents Russian-language press materials carefully translated into English.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.

Project Muse
Access articles from 40 journals in humanities and social sciences.

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Variations in Russian Names

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Recommended Web Sites

Chronology of Russian History

Soviet History Internet Archive

17 Moments in Soviet History

Russia Today
Information on Russia today, ranging from tourism to business (also available through the Library Catalog: search "Russia today" as a title without quotation marks and click on Full text available via the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries in the catalog record

Country Studies/Area Handbooks (Library of Congress).

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Mikhail Gorbachev Links

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