R&I Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship
About Russian spelling
Russian words can be transliterated several different ways when spelled using Roman characters, so try several ways of spelling people's names or other terms.
- Transliteration Table - WikipediaLays out the English letters that may be substituted for Russian characters in different transliteration methods.
- ALA-LC Romanization tablesThe official way that libraries will spell someone's name.
Dig Into Reference Sources
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities. - Reference Universe This link opens in a new window(Searches through citation information)
Searches the indexes of our library's print reference books. When you find an entry you'd like to read, click the "Locate this book" button or put the title of the reference book into Catalyst to find the book's location in the Reference Collection.
Start with Reference Sources
- Oxford Bibliographies: "The Challenge of Communism" [International Relations] byCall Number: [online]A great place to start to get a birds-eye view of big topics, and where to find good scholarly sources about them.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
The Cold War Reference Guide by Call Number: REF D843 .S3365 1997ISBN: 0786401737Publication Date: 1996Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Encyclopedia of the Cold War by Call Number: CC Ref D840 .E625 2008ISBN: 9780415975155Publication Date: 2008Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Encyclopedia of Russian HistoryCall Number: REF DK14 .E53Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Articles are signed by their authors, so you can look to see if those authors have written other articles or books. Articles also include bibliographies for further reading. Entries are laid out alphabetically, and there is an index of topics at the end of the 4th volume
On Ukraine
- Ukraine Research Guide (@NYU)This research guide is created in response to unfolding war between Ukraine and Russian Federation. It seeks to assemble materials that help illuminate the current conflict between two neighboring Slavic countries as well as to place the Ukrainian state into a larger international and historical context. Materials recommended in this guide are in English, except the last selection under "Russian perspectives" and the database of Donetsk and Luhansk newspapers in the "Conflict in the Easter Ukraine" tab. **NOTE that all materials mentioned in this guide link to NYU Libraries. Search Catalyst for local access.
