Russian History on the Web

General Information:

Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center: This site offers valuable articles, books and documents concerning interpretations of the Soviet Union and pre-1917 Russia. First rate! Click "Russia" when you arrive and then click onto "history."

Fordham University's Modern Source Book: Scroll down this magnificent site. There are articles, documents and all sorts of materials on Soviet history and the Cold War. Moreover, there is plenty to see on American history, pre-twentieth century events, ancient history, religious history and much, much more.

Bucknell University: Bucknell University offers links to pre-1917 Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history. There are some good materials here.

The Slavic Review: The Slavic Review is one of the premier journals in English concerning Russian and East European studies. The site offers synopses of articles from the current issue. There are complete articles from previous publications (1994-1998).

On Line Books (Russia): One finds here a limited selection of books on twentieth century Russia. These materials can provide a helpful supplement to students who wish to broaden their base of research materials.

Russian Culture: This is a worthwhile site that presents links to Russian art, literature, film, pop culture, cooking, etc. Bucknell University sponsors this offering.

Documents Relating to the Former Soviet Union: Numerous documents and articles on the former U.S.S.R are to be found here. This site is presented by Mount Holyoke College and it contains many engaging materials for students of Russian history.

Russian Feminism Resources - Academic: A series of articles, bibliographies, along with the names of courses, and professional associations are collected here. They deal with all periods of Russian history but mostly focus on the modern era.

Database Articles for UMUC students

UMUC web databases: The scholarly articles listed below can be found on the UMUC Virtual Library site. Once you are logged on you will have to link to the appropriate database. You will notice that I've included the database name at the end of each article. When the database page opens, click onto the correct letter (Example: "J" for JSTOR) and then type in the author's name or article title into the database search engine.

Komlos, John. "On the biological standard of living in Russia and the Soviet Union" (JSTOR)

 

Mudrak, Myroslava M. " Russian Artistic Modernism and the West: Collectors, Collections, Exhibitions, and Artists" (Wilson SelectPlus)Art

 

Raleigh, Donald J. "Doing Soviet History: The Impact of the Archival Revolution" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Russia (20th Century Opera). (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Walker, Barbara. "On Reading Soviet Memoirs: A History of the `Contemporaries'

Genre as an Institution of Russian Intelligentsia Culture from the 1790s to the 1970s." (Academic Search Premier)

 

Wildman, Allan. "The Future of Russian History" (Wilson SelectPlus)

Russia Before the Revolution

Hangin' With the Peasants: This interesting article gives an in-depth look at the lives led by Russia's pre-revolutionary peasants.

Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia:This website holds a number of scholarly articles on Russia's working class and revolutionary Intelligentisa during the late years of tsarist rule.

Wages and Cost of Living Before and during the Revolution: These charts show Russian wages and cost of living up to the revolution. One can see that paying for the cost of living was quite difficult for Russian laborers.

. . .And the Wind Swept Over It: The Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg contains collections on the Jewish experience in Russia. This site describes those collections and gives a brief history of Jews in Russia.

The Romanov Family Album: If you read about them, you might as well see them. This site shows numerous family photographs of Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, the four daughters, and Tsaravitch Alexi (Aleksy). Be sure to click on the photo for an enlargment and caption.

The Empire that was Russia: Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was commissioned by the Tsar to photograph the Russian empire on the eve of World War I. The Library of Congress has taken the photographs and digitally colorized many of them. The site is a bit difficult to navigate, but the photographs are worth seeing - especially those dealing with the Russian people.

Russian Army in World War I 1914-1918: When you reach this site click on the red English title. Site topics vary from a rundown of the main battles, leading personalities in the war, a photo archive, and more trivial materials such as the uniforms and armaments of the Russian army.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Ascher, Abraham. "Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin and His 'Jewish' Adviser" (JSTOR)

 

Bobroff, Ronald. "Behind the Balkin Wars: Russian Policy toward Bulgaria and the Turkish Straits, 1912-13" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Chekhov, Anton. - author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich - author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Engelstein, Laura. "New Thinking about the Old Empire: Post-Soviet Reflections" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Flath, Carol A. "Art and Idleness: Chekhov's 'The House with a Mezzanine' " (Wilson SelectPlus)Literature

 

Gasparov, Boris. "In Search of a Vanished World" (JSTOR)Music

 

Gaudin, Corrine. "No Place to Lay My Head": Marginalization and the Right to Land during the Stolypin Reforms" (JSTOR)

 

Haimson, Leopold H. "The Problem of Political and Social Stability in Urban Russia on the Eve of 'War and Revolution Revisited" (JSTOR)

 

Katz, David. "Sergei Witte" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

Hamm, Michael J. "Khar'kov's Progressive Duma, 1910-1914: A Study in Russian Municipal Reform" (JSTOR)

 

Heyman, Neil. "Nicholas II" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

 

Lohr, Eric. "The Russian Army and the Jews: Mass Deportation, Hostages, and Violence during World War I" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Popkins, Gareth. "Code versus Custom? Norms and Tactics in Peasant Volost Court Appeals, 1889-1917" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Rabinowitz, Stanley. "No Room of Her Own: The Early Life and Career of Liubov(prime) Gurevich" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Rice, Christopher. "'Land and Freedom' in the Factories of Petersburg: The SRs and the Workers' Curia Elections to the Second Duma, January 1907" (JSTOR)

 

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich.- composer (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Rogger, Hans. "The Beilis Case: Anti-Semitism and Politics in the Reign of Nicholas II" (JSTOR)

 

Russia. Scroll down the left menu to "Painting, graphic arts and sculpture" and then click onto "1900–1916" (Grove Art Online)Art

 

Russian Federation. (Music in he pre-Revolutionary period, 1900–17) (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Sanborn, Josh. "The Mobilization of 1914 and the Question of the Russian Nation: A Reexamination" (JSTOR)

 

Scanlan, James P. "Dostoevsky's Arguments for Immortality" (Wilson SelectPlus)Literature

 

Steinberg, Victoria S.; Steinberg, John W. "The complete wartime correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich. - composer (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Suny, Ronald Grigor. "Nationalities in the Russian Empire" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich. - composer (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Tokmakoff, George. "Stolypin's Agrarian Reform: An Appraisal" (JSTOR)

 

Tolstoy, Leo. - author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Turnbull, Daniel. "The Defeat of Popular Representation, December 1904: Prince Mirskii, Witte, and the Imperial Family" (JSTOR)

 

Zuckerman, Fredric S. "Political Police and Revolution: The Impact of the 1905 Revolution on the Tsarist Secret Police" (JSTOR)

 

 

The Revolutionary Era

The Russian Revolution: This superb site from the U.K. offers articles, documents interpretations, photographs and maps from the 1917 revolutionary period.

Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections: Edited by Reginald E. Zelnik, this site provides a number of articles on both the workers and Russian intelligentsia before the 1917 revolution. The authors are top scholars in their field.

A Map of 1917 Petrograd: This map shows some of the key areas of Petrograd that played a role in the 1917 Revolution. You will have to click on the icon (in lower right) to enlarge the map

The Lenin Internet Archive: There are several interesting works by Lenin to be found here. One can read his own words and even see a (very) short film clip of Lenin.

Propaganda Posters: A series of Civil War posters are located here. Some support the White cause while others endorse Lenin's Reds.

The Trotsky Internet Archive: Here is another contribution from the Marxist Internet Archive. This site contains numerous articles, biographical information, and photographs.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Bark, Sir Peter. "The Last Days of the Russian Monarchy - Nicholas II at Army Headquarters" (JSTOR)

 

Bernstein, Frances L. "Envisioning Health in Revolutionary Russia: The Politics of Gender in Sexual-Enlightenment Posters of the 1920s" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Brovkin, Vladimir. "Workers' Unrest and the Bolsheviks' Response in 1919" (JSTOR)

 

Engel, Barbara Alpern. "Not by Bread Alone: Subsisence Riots in Russia during World War I" (JSTOR)

 

Finkel, Stuart. "Purging the Public Intellectual: The 1922 Expulsions from Soviet Russia" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Galiliy Garcia, Ziva. "Workers, Industrialists, and Mensheviks: Labor Relations and the Question of Power in the Early Stages of the Russian Revolution" (JSTOR)

 

Johnson Simon; Temin, Peter. "The Macroeconomics of NEP" (JSTOR)

 

Jones Hemenway, Elizabeth. "Nicholas in Hell: Rewriting the Tsarist Narrative in the Revolutionary Skazki of 1917" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Kingston-Mann, Esther. "Lenin and the Challenge of Peasant Militance: From Bloody Sunday, 1905 to the Dissolution of the First Duma" (JSTOR)

 

Lenoe, Matthew. "NEP Newspapers and the Origins of Soviet Information Rationing" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Lindenmeyr, Adele. "The First Soviet Political Trial: Countess Sofia Panina before the Petrograd Revolutionary Tribunal" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Rabinowitch, Alexander. "The Evolution of Local Soviets in Petrograd, November 1917-June 1918: The Case of the First City District Soviet" (JSTOR)

 

Rabinowitch, Alexander. "The Shchastny File: Trotsky and the Case of the Hero of the Baltic Fleet" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Rosenberg,William G.; Koenker, Diane P. "The Limits of Formal Protest: Worker Activism and Social Polarization in Petrograd and Moscow, March to October, 1917" (JSTOR)

 

Russia. Scroll down the left menu to "Painting, graphic arts and sculpture" and then click onto "1917-1956" (Grove Art Online)Art

 

Russian Federation. (Music of the Soviet period) (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Scherr, Barry. "Notes on Literary Life in Petrograd, 1918-1922: A Tale of Three Houses" (JSTOR)Literature

 

Seregny, Scott J. "Peasants, Nation, and Local Government in Wartime Russia" (JSTOR)

 

Swain, G.R. "Bolsheviks and Metal Workers on the Eve of the First World War" (JSTOR)

 

Swoboda, Victor. "Was the Soviet Union Really Necessary?" (JSTOR)

 

Tribunskii, Pavel A. "The Riazan zemstvo in the February Revolution" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Verner, Andrew M. "What's in a Name? Of Dog-Killers, Jews and Rasputin" (JSTOR)

 

Volobuev, P.V.; Schultzand, Kurt S. "Perestroika and the October Revolution in Soviet Historiography." (JSTOR)

 

Wood, Elizabeth A. "The Trial of Lenin: Legitimating the Revolution through Political Theater, 1920-23" (Wilson SelectPlus)

Stalinist Russia

Stalinism as a Way of Life: The New York Review of Books periodically offers excellent essays on Soviet history, and this essay by Aileen Kelly is one of those pieces that should not be missed. Ostensibly Kelly's essay is a book review, but it is much more. Take a look at Kelly's overview of recent post-Soviet research on Stalinism and the purges.

Was Stalinism Implicit in October 1917? A Green from Britain offers his interpretation of Stalin and the legacy of the 1917 Revolution. This piece offers an additional outlook on Stalin that compliments the varying interpretations presented in History 448.

Stalin vs. Trotsky: Gerhard Rempel of Western New England University assesses the rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky. Rempel gives several other Written Lectures on Stalinist Russia.

Stalinism: The Marxist Internet site provides a not very laudatory definition of Stalinism. It is interesting to see how many leading Marxists and Leninists today see Stalin and his guiding principles as a betrayal to Marx.

Was There an Alternative to Stalinism in the U.S.S.R.? Professor Vadim Rogovin presents his views on Stalinism. The material here is taken from Rogovin's lecture at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Anderson, Truman. "Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine, October-December 1941" (JSTOR)

 

Babel, Isaac. - author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Bojanowska, Edyta M. " E Pluribus Unum: Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry As a Story Cycle" (Wilson SelectPlus)Literature

 

Clements, Barbara Evans. Review of the motion picture "Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story," directed by Rosemarie Reed. Documentary Film

 

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Vengeance and Ressentiment in the Russian Revolution (in Forum: Comparing Revolutions On Arno Mayer's 'The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions')" (JSTOR)

 

Getty, J. Arch. " 'Excesses are not permitted': Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s" Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Getty, J.Arch.; Rittersporn Babor T.; Zemskov, Viktor N. "Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence." (JSTOR)

 

Hellbeck, Jochen. "Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Husband, William B. "Soviet Atheism and Russian Orthodox Strategies of Resistance, 1917-1932" (JSTOR)

 

Izmozik, Vladlen S. "Voices from the Twenties: Private Correspondence Intercepted by the OGPU" (JSTOR)

 

Lebina, Natalia. "Communal, Communal, Communal World" (Wilson SelectPlus)

McDermott, Kevin. "Stalinist Terror in the Comintern" (JSTOR)

 

Naimark, Norman M. "Cold War Studies and New Archival Materials on Stalin" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Nove, Alec. "How Many Victims in the 1930s?" I & II (JSTOR)

 

Nove, Alec. "Terror Victims. Is the Evidence Complete?" (JSTOR)

 

Popov. V.P.; Nils H. "State terror in Soviet Russia, 1923-1953" (Academic Search Premier)

 

Prokofiev, Sergey - composer (Grove Music Online) Music

 

Shostakovich, Dmitry - composer (Grove Music Online)Music

 

Schrand, Thomas G. "The Five-Year Plan for Women's Labour: Constructing Socialism and the 'Double Burden', 1930-1932" (JSTOR)

 

Shlapentokh, Vladimir. "The Stakhanovite Movement: Changing Perceptions over Fifty Years" (JSTOR)

 

Steppa, K.F. "In Stalin's Prisons - Reminiscences" (JSTOR)

 

Viola, Lynne. " The Other Archipelago: Kulak Deportations to the North in 1930." (JSTOR)

 

Waters, Elizabeth. "The Modernisation of Russian Motherhood, 1917-1937" (JSTOR)

 

Wheatcroft, Stephen G. "Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archival Data. Not the Last Word" (JSTOR)

• Conquest, Robert. "Comment on Wheatcroft" (JSTOR)
• Wheatcroft, Stephen G. "A Further Note of Clarification on the Famine, the Camps and Excess Morality" (JSTOR)

 

 

World War II & the Soviet Union

I Remember: This site contains memoirs from common soldiers and participants from Russia's Great Patriotic War.

War Related Links and Articles: For further information on the Soviet effort in the war, see my World War II website. Scroll down to "Russia and the Eastern Front."

Database Articles for UMUC students

Anderson, Truman. "Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine, October-December 1941" (JSTOR)

 

Bidlack, Richard. "The Political Mood in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Ellman, Michael; Maksudov, S. "Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War" (JSTOR)

 

Fanning, David. Review of the motion picture `The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Station,' directed by Larry Weinstein.Film and Music

 

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. " 'Our City, Our Hearths, Our Families': Local Loyalties and Private Life in Soviet World War II Propaganda" (JSTOR)

 

Neiberg, Michael S.; Sullivan, Brian R. . "German Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941: Was it prudent for Germany to invade the Soviet Union in 1941?" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

 

Ragsdale, Hugh. "The Munich Crisis and the Issue of Red Army Transit across Romania" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Roberts, Geoffrey. "The Soviet Decision for a Pact with Nazi Germany" (JSTOR)

 

Uldricks, Teddy J. "The icebreaker controversy: Did Stalin plan to attack Hitler?" (JSTOR)

 

 

The Cold War

Cold War International History Project: Here is another excellent site that towers above most other offerings found on the web. This page presents articles, reviews, archives and much more. If you wish to study the Cold War, this is the place to be.

Cold War Policies: This site was written by a University of San Diego professor and includes topics such as Yalta, The Arms Race, Containment, Detente, Glasnost, and Revolution. There are additional maps and primary resources.

Cold War Policies: This site was written by a University of San Diego professor and includes topics such as Yalta, The Arms Race, Containment, Detente, Glasnost, and Revolution. There are additional maps and primary resources.

Revelations from the Russian Archives: The Library of Congress offers documents from the ex-Soviet Union. The site is divided into the "Internal Soviet System" and "Affairs with the U.S." There are many good primary documents along with brief explanations for readers.

Russian Foreign Policy - Internet Resources: This site offers all kinds of worthwhile links to articles and internet pages devoted to contemporary Russian foreign policy issues. Most of the sites are in English although many other languages are seen as well.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Allyn, Bruce J; Blight,James G.; Welch. David A. "Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis" (JSTOR)

 

Du Quenoy, Paul; Kautt, William H. "Imperialism and the Soviet Union: Was the Soviet Union an empire?" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

 

Farnham, Barbara. "Reagan and the Gorbachev revolution: perceiving the end of threat" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Frisby, Tanya. "The Rise of Organised Crime in Russia: Its Roots and Social Significance" (JSTOR)

 

Halliday, Fred; Tanin, Zahir. "The Communist Regime in Afghanistan 1978-1992: Institutions and Conflicts" (JSTOR)

 

Kautt, William H.; Budjevac, Julijana . "Communism after World War II: Was Communism a monolithic movement?" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

 

Macdonald, Douglas J. "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging Realism, Refuting Revisionism" (JSTOR)

 

Mastny, Vojtech. " Did NATO win the cold war? Looking over the wall" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Nijman, John. "The Limits of Superpower: The United States and the Soviet Union since World War II" (JSTOR)

 

Raack, R.C. "Stalin Plans His Post-War Germany" (JSTOR)

 

Scott, Len; Smith, Steve Smith "Lessons of October: Historians, Political Scientists, Policy-Makers and the Cuban Missile Crisis" (JSTOR)

 

Zimmerman, William; Berbaum, Michael L. Soviet Military Manpower Policy in the Brezhnev Era: Regime Goals, Social Origins and 'Working the System' " (JSTOR)

 

 

After Stalin: The Khrushchev-Brezhnev Era

Soviet Scientists and the Bomb: Viktor Adamskii was a 35-year-old theoretical physicist at Arzamas-16, a key Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory. Adamskii, who still works at the laboratory, talks about the Soviet constructionof a nuclear bomb. In a "Letter to Khrushchev," he discusses how he and his colleagues were deeply concerned about the medical dangers of radioactive fallout. This concern ultimately led these Soviet scientists to influence Khrushchev to accept an agreement with the U.S. that would bar all tests except those conducted underground. A Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963.

The Rise of Khrushchev: Professor Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College provides an essay on Khrushchev's push to power in the Soviet Union.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Anderson, Perry. "Gaudy Butterfly in a Drab Chrysalis" (Khrushchev) (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Davis, Nathanial. "The Number of Orthodox Churches before and after the Khrushchev Antireligious Drive" (JSTOR)

 

Field, Deborah A. "Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Krushchev Era" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Frankel, Benjamin. "Leonid I(lyich) Brezhnev," in The Cold War, 1945-1991. (Biography Resource Center)

 

Frankel, Benjamin. "Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev," in The Cold War, 1945-1991" (Biography Resource Center)

 

Grossman, Vasily Semenovich. - author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Nordlander, David. "Khrushchev's Image in the Light of Glasnost and Perestroika" (JSTOR)

 

Pasternak, Boris. - author - Materials from Contemporary Literary Criticism (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Post-Stalin Leaders (Biography Resource Center)

 

Russia. Scroll down the left menu to "Painting, graphic arts and sculpture" and then click onto "After 1956" (Grove Art Online)Art

 

Rybakov, Anatoli.- author - (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich. Materials from Contemporary Literary Criticism (Literature Resource Center)Literature

 

Tomson, William J. "The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev" (JSTOR)

Gorbachev and Collapse

Explaining the Soviet Collapse: Professor Peter Rutland reviews current theories as to why the Soviet Union ultimately collapsed.

Gorbachev and the Coming Dissolution: The rise of Gorbachev is discussed here along with several weaknesses within the Soviet system. Gorbachev's actual activity is skimped upon, but one gets a feel for problems confronting the Soviet Union by the time Gorbachev took his post.

Database Articles for UMUC students

Cook, Linda J. "Brezhnev's 'Social Contract' and Gorbachev's Reforms" (JSTOR)

 

Daniels; Robert V. "Gorbachev's Reforms and the Reversal of History" (JSTOR)

 

Harris, Jonathon. "Vadim Andreevich Medvedev and the Transformation of Party Ideology, 1988-1990" (JSTOR)

 

Frankel, Benjamin. "Mikhail (Sergeyevich) Gorbachev," in The Cold War, 1945-1991. (Biography Resource Center)

 

Kotkin, Stephen. "1991 and the Russian Revolution: Sources, Conceptual Categories, Analytical Frameworks" (JSTOR)

 

Laqueur, Walter. "Gorbachev and Epimetheus: The Origins of the Russian Crisis" (JSTOR)

 

McClarnand, Elaine. "The Politics of History and Historical Revisionism: De-Stalinization and the Search for Identity in Gorbachev's Russia, 1985-1991" (JSTOR)

 

McFaul, Michael. "The Demise of the World Revolutionary Process: Soviet-Angolan Relations under Gorbachev" (JSTOR)

 

Pittman, Riitta H. "Writers and Politics in the Gorbachev Era" (JSTOR)Literature

 

Robinson, Neil. "Gorbachev and the Place of the Party in Soviet Reform, 1985-91" (JSTOR)

 

Surovell, Jeffrey. "Gorbachev's Last Year: Leftist or Rightist?" (JSTOR)

Post-Soviet Russia

Putin and the Russian Economy: While the 1990s was largely a disaster for the Russian economy, this website shows that an economic recovery has begun since 1999. Take a look. It gives a bit of hope for Russia.

Conversation with Yegor Gaider: Known as one of the chief architects for creating Russia's post Soviet market economy, Gaider is an important figure for understanding Russia during the Yeltsin years. This interview appears in a series of links, but it is conveniently arranged and excellent.

The Russian Economy: The Hoover Institution sponsors this website, and one finds here articles by scholars investigating the current Russian economy.

Russia Today: If one is looking for daily news stories from Russian sources, this is the site to hit. The materials are in English, enabling visitors to survey Russia's current news, opinion and business events.

The Moscow Times: Published by the Dutch Independent Media (in English), this paper covers current Russian events. One can also find its sister publication (The St. Petersburg News) on a link at the same site. These are subscription newspapers, although you can find publications a few weeks old that are free of charge.

Maps: Here is a very thorough site which offers current maps of Russia and the former Soviet Republics. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much to offer in the way of historical maps.

Bunce, Valerie. "The political economy of postsocialism" (JSTOR)

 

Carnaghan, Ellen. "Thinking about Democracy: Interviews with Russian Citizens" (JSTOR)

 

Cornell Svante E. "International Reactions to Massive Human Rights Violations: The Case of Chechnya" (JSTOR)

 

Domrin, Alexander N. "Ten Years Later: Society, “Civil Society,” and The Russian State" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Feifer, Gregory. "Russia's Real Rulers" (History Resource Center: Modern World)

 

Ferguson, Denise P. "From communist control to glasnost and back? Media freedom and control in the former Soviet Union." (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Frisby, Tanya. "The Rise of Organised Crime in Russia:" Its Roots and Social Significance" (JSTOR)

 

Hirsch, Francine. "Toward an Empire of Nations: Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Krause, Axel. "Gorbachev Speaks" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Putin: (Biography Resource Center)

 

Remington, Thomas F. "The Evolution of Executive-Legislative Relations in Russia since 1993" (JSTOR)

 

Salmin, A. M. "Russia, Europe, and the New World Order" (Wilson SelectPlus)

 

Shlapentokh, Vladimir. "Social Inequality in Post-Communist Russia: The Attitudes of the Political Elite and the Masses (1991-1998)" (JSTOR)

 

Schroder, Hans-Henning; Bell, Claudia. "El'tsin and the Oligarchs: The Role of Financial Groups in Russian Politics between 1993 and July 1998" (JSTOR)

 

Solomon Jr., Peter H. Film reviews of `Kolyma' and `Russian Prison N-240,' directed by Mikhail Mikheev (JSTOR)FILM

 

Tolz, Vera. "Forging the Nation: National Identity and Nation Building in Post-Communist Russia" (JSTOR)

 

Urban, Michael. "Remythologising the Russian State" (JSTOR)

 

Volkov, Vadim. "Violent Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Russia" (JSTOR)

 

White, Stephen; Matthew Wyman; Sarah Oates. "Parties and Voters in the 1995 Russian Duma Election" (JSTOR)

 

Yeltsin (or El'tsin): (Biography Resource Center)