General Social Science Resources in REECA Studies in UW-Madison Libraries

Before consulting the numerous reference resources available, it may be helpful for scholars to gain an understanding of the context of the information which they will be researching. A book which explores from a Social Sciences perspective the problems facing the former Soviet republics after the breakup of the USSR is The Soviet Legacy, by Roy D. Laird. The question posed by the author in the book's preface can serve as a summary of it's contents: "What is the heritage of the people of the newly independent states, economically, physically, and psychologically, and what does that bequest bode for the foreseeable future?"

Laird, Roy D. The Soviet Legacy / Roy D. Laird. -- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993
Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving: HC336.26 L35 1993

Social scientists interested in finding out more about Russian and East European Area Studies might consult some of the basic directories of the field, many of which are published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies(AAASS). For example, the Directory of Programs, Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, is a guide to Slavic and East European Studies programs in the United States and Canada. The Directory of Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies is a periodical publication which lists AAASS members, along with their biographical information, country/area of interest, address and phone number. A similar guide to Russian scholars is the Directory of Scholars in Slavic Studies in Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also published by AAASS. It also includes a calendar of conferences, announcements of job openings, and funding opportunities. Two directories, Independent Research Centers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Former USSR, and A Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States: the Academies of Sciences of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, provide names, addresses and profiles for institutions conducting research in the Social Sciences and Humanities in the former Soviet republics.

Researchers on their way to Eastern Europe may want to consult guides to libraries, archives, and research centers, such as Guides to Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe, Archives in Russia 1993: a Brief Directory. Similar guides to Washington, D.C. and Great Britain are available as well: Library Resources in Britain for the study of Eastern Europe and the Former U.S.S.R., and Scholar's Guide to Washington, D.C. for Russian, Central Eurasian, and Baltic Studies: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Directory of programs, Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies. 1993-95 -- Stanford, Cal. : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1993-
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: DJK36 U6 D472

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Directory of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Oct. 1961- -- Urbana, Ill. : The Association, 1961- AAASS, 128 Encina Commons, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Memorial Library East European Studies, Room 212: DK1 A38
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Directory of scholars in Slavic studies in institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. <1993> -- Stanford, Calif. : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies ; Moscow : Institute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, c1993- AAASS, Jordan Quad/Acacia Bldg., 125 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305-4130
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: H62 A1 D5

A Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Successor States: the Academies of Sciences of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan / Institute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences [and] Kennan Institute for Advances Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Internation Center for Scholars. -- [2nd ed.]. -- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993.
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: AS258 S36 1993
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Titkov, A. S. (Aleksei Semenovich) Independent research centers in the humanities and social sciences in the former USSR / compiled by Aleksei Titkov ; with the assistance of Natal'ia Evseeva and Igor Pshichkov. -- Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1992. (Occasional paper / Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies ; #246)
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: DK1 O25 no. 246

Grant, Steven A. Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C. for Russian, Central Eurasian, and Baltic studies : Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan ... / Steven A. Grant. -- 3rd ed. / revised by William E. Pomeranz with the assistance of Gina R. Ottoboni ; consultants, Blair A. Ruble and Mark H. Teeter ; series editor, Zdenek V. David. -- Washington : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
Memorial Library East European Studies, Room 212: DK18 G66 1994
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Memorial Library Reference Room 262: DK18 G66 1994
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Archives in Russia 1993 : a brief directory / ; edited by Mikhail Dmitri'vich Afanas'ev ... ; technical editor, Ann Robertson> ; foreword by Vladimir Petrovich Kozlov. -- Preliminary English version / edited with an introduction by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. -- Washington : International Research & Exchanges Board, c1993.
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: CD1711 A75 1993
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Hughes, Maria. Guide to libraries in Central and Eastern Europe / compiled by Maria Hughes with the assistance of Paul Wilson. -- London : British Library, Science Reference and Information Service, <1992> (Library resource)
Available from Slavic Bibliographer, Memorial Library, Room 212F
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Walker, G. P. M. (Gregory Piers Mountford) Library resources in Britain for the study of Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. / compiled by Gregory Walker and Jackie Johnson. -- Wheatley : G.Walker, 1992.
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: Z2483 W36 1992
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General factual information on Eastern Europe can be found in a variety of places. A trustworthy source of current facts and events is the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, or Bolshoi entsiklopedicheskii slovar (Great Encyclopedic Dictionary), a two volume encyclopedia published in 1991, while more historical information can be found in the Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia (Great Soviet Encyclopedia), the thirty-one-volume third edition of which was published in 1970, and which became available in English translation in 1983, under the title Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The index is the key to the English edition, as the volumes retain the original Cyrillic alphabetical order. A yearly one-volume update to the encyclopedia, the Bolshaia sovietskaia entsiklopediia: Ezhegodnik, was published until 1989. It may be helpful for non-native Russians to consult a dictionary when reading Russian-language Social Science literature. A resource which focuses primarily on Social Science terminology and concepts is the Russian-English Social Science Dictionary.

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union / edited by Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith ; associate editor, Patricia Brown ; -- 2nd ed. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Memorial Library East European Studies Room 212: DK14 C35 1994
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Memorial Library Reference Room 262: DK14 C35 1994
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Geography Library Reference Collection: DK14 C35 1994
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Bol'shoi entsiklopedicheskii slovar / glavnyi redaktor, A.M. Prokhorov. -- Moskva : "Sovetskaia entsiklopediia", 1991.
Memorial Library East European Studies Room 212: AG55 B65 1991
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Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia / glavnyi redaktor, A.M. Prokhorov. -- 3-e izd. -- Moskva : "Sov. entsiklopediia", 1970-
Memorial Library East European Studies Room 212: AE55 B623
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Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopedia. English Great Soviet Encyclopedia. . -- New York, Macmillan
Memorial Library Reference Index Cases: AE5 B58
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Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. Ezhegodnik. 1957- -- Moskva: Izd-vo Sovetskaia entsiklopediia
Memorial Library East European Studies Room 212: AE55 B64
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Smith, R. E. F. (Robert E. F.) A Russian-English social science dictionary / compiled by R.E.F. Smith. -- Rev. and enl. ed. -- Birmingham : Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities, University of Birmingham, c1990.
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: H49 S55 1990

In the years since the breakup of the Soviet Union, several statistical sources covering Russia and the former Soviet republics have been published. One such source is the Statistical Handbook: States of the Former USSR, published by the World Bank. Another publication, Social Development of the Commonwealth of Independent States Statistical Handbook, provides information on social and economic conditions in the CIS. A directory which provides a survey of political and economic conditions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics is Europa Publications' is Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Statistical handbook (World Bank. Europe and Central Asia Region. Country Dept. III) Statistical handbook : states of the former USSR / Country Department III, Europe and Central Asia Region. <1992- -- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c1992- World Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20433 (Studies of economies in transformation )
Memorial Library Regular Shelving: HC331 S8

Commonwealth of Independent States. Statistical Committee. Social development of the commonwealth states statistical handbook. -- NewYork : Norman Ross Pub., 1994.
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: HA1444 C66 1996

Russia (United States. Superintendent of Documents) Russia. Nov. 22, 1993- -- Washington, DC : U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., <1994-
Historical Society Library Govt. Publications Reference Collection: Z1223 A195
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Law Library U.S. Documents, 1st Floor, West: GP 3.22/2: 279
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: Z1223 A192
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Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. -- London, England: Europa Publications, 1992-
Memorial Library Reference Non-Current Collection 2M South: HC244 A1 E17
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Many useful bibliographies are available for scholars in Slavic studies. Some of the most recent are : Siberia and the Soviet Far East, Eastern Europe Bibliography, Russia/U.S.S.R., published by Clio Press, and Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its Predecessors and Successors. A well-established yearly bibliography is The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. J. Thomas Shaw, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was the first editor of this bibliography. A bibliography of government publications published by the G.P.O. is available as well, called simply Russia, as is a bibliography of Slavic Studies references sources, Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks, by Murlin Croucher. Researchers interested in Social Science research published in Russia may consult an extremely useful yearly publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences, entitled Social Sciences and Humanities in Russia, which provide titles, authors, and detailed annotations in English, and full citations in Russian.

Pitman, Lesley. Russia/U.S.S.R. / Lesley Pitman, compiler. -- 2nd ed. -- Oxford, Eng. ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1994. (World bibliographical series. v.6)
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: DK17 P57 1994
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The American bibliography of Slavic and East European studies. 1967- -- Columbus, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: Z2483 A65 (for older editions)
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Collins, David Norman. Siberia and the Soviet Far East / David N. Collins. -- Oxford, Eng. ; Santa Barbara, CA : Clio Press, c1991. (World bibliographical series ; v. 127)
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: DK753 C5 1991
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Gates-Coon, Rebecca. Eastern Europe bibliography / compiled by Rebecca Gates-Coon. -- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1993. (Scarecrow area bibliographies ; no. 2)
Memorial Library East European Studies, Room 212: DJK238 G258 1993
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Slavic studies : a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks / compiled and edited by Murlin Croucher. -- Wilmington : Scholarly Resources, 1993.
Memorial Library Reference Room 262: DJK27 S62 1993
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Schaffner, Bradley L., 1959- Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its predecessors and successors / by BradleyL. Schaffner. -- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994. (Scarecrow area bibliographies ; 5)
Memorial Library East European Studies, Room 212: DK17 S3 1994
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Social sciences and humanities in Russia / Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences. 1991- -- Moscow : The Institute, 1992-
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: H6 A1 S634

A wonderful resource for scholars interested in reading Eastern European Social Science research in English, is the Russian Social Science Review: A Journal of Translations. Articles for this journal are taken from a range of the best Russian journals, including Voprosy ekonomiki (Problems of Economics), Voprosy psikhologii (Problems of Psychology), and Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia (Sociological Research). NewsNet, also available on campus, is a bimonthly newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which publishes articles and columns about developments in Russian, Eurasian and East European studies. An important journal for Social Scientists which is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies is Slavic Review. Research falls within the fields of Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, History, Literature, and Sociology, among others. This journal, in addition to being available in the library in print form, is available with a slight delay from the time of print publication on the Internet at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavrev/slavrev.html.

Russian social science review. Vol. 33, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1992)- -- Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c1992- M.E. Sharpe, 80 Business Park Dr., Armonk, NY 10504
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: AP R966 S659

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. NewsNet / American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Vol. 33, n. 4 (Sept. 1993)- -- Stanford, CA : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1993- American Association for the Advance of Slavic Studies, Jordan Quad/Acacia, 125 Panama St., Stanford, CA 94305-4130
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: AP A494 T377

Slavic Review. -- [Seattle?] : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, c1961- -- Vol. 20, no. 3 (Oct. 1961)-
Memorial Library Regular Stacks: AP S6316 R436
Also available at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavrev/slavrev.html.

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