R&I Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship
Start with Reference Sources
Oxford Bibliographies Online: "Russian Revolutions and Civil War, 1917-1921" by
Call Number: (online)Publication Date: 30 March 2015A great place to start to get a birds-eye view of big topics, and where to find good scholarly sources about them.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History by ISBN: 9780199236701Publication Date: Dec 2013Contains essays with excellent footnotes for resources about 18th-20th century Russia.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
An authoritative full text collection of the history of scholarship in several different academic subjects. Includes over 260 volumes published since 1960 by Cambridge University Press.
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
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.
