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Introduction

This guide provides a collection of library resources, databases, archival materials, and digital sources relating to the history of Russia from the Kyivan Rus' through the February Revolution in 1917.

Sources for Writing History Papers General Citation Sources

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  • Adrian Legaspi

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Select Journals

Russian History. Brill, Began with Vol 1, no. 1 (1974)., 1974. 

Kritika. Bloomington. Print began with new ser., vol. 1, no.1 (2000). 

 

Select Databases

ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward.
 
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDTGlobal)
Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
 
JSTOR
JSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. 
 
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts journal articles and dissertations on world history from 1450 to present excluding the United States and Canada.

HathiTrust
Offers millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. 

Project MUSE - Premium Collection
Project Muse provides access to the full-text of over 40 of the Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly journals. 
 
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes a wide range of social science journals and periodicals with full-text coverage beginning in January 1995.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
 A comprehensive reference work in the fields of international relations and international studies, combining updated and previously existing articles from the ISA's International Studies Encyclopedia.

Gale in Context: World History 
Offers a history encyclopedia of events, cultures, religions, wars, and people.

Subject Specialist

  • Adrian Legaspi

    History, Religious Studies, Political Science, International Studies, and Modern Languages & Literatures Librarian

    axl641@miami.edu

    305-284-3257

Select Ebooks


Millar, James R. Encyclopedia of Russian History. Cengage Gale, 2003.

Raffensperger, Christian. Reimagining Europe Kievan Rus' in the medieval world. Harvard University Press, 2012. 

Kollmann, Nancy Shields. The Russian Empire 1450-1801. Oxford University Press, 2017. 

Hanak, Walter K. The nature and image of princely power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054: a study of sources. Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013. 

Witzenrath, Cristoph. The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725: Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia. De Gruyter, 2022. 

Kappeler, Andreas., Clayton Alfred. The Russian empire: a multiethnic history. Routledge, 2013. 

Dukes, Paul. A history of the Urals: Russia's crucible from early empire to the post-Soviet era. ProQuest, 2015. 

Kamenskii, Aleksandr; Griffiths, David Mark. The Russian Empire in the eighteenth century: searching for a place in the world. NetLibrary, Inc. 1997. 
 

Select Print Books

Primary Sources - Archival


Current Digest of the Russian Press
Weekly digest that presents a selection of Russian-language press materials translated into English.

Russian Archives 
Includes archival footage and still images from museums. 

Early European Books 
Includes some accounts about European interactions with Russia in the early modern period. 
 
Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals
Full-text electronic versions of major Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities.

The State Archives of the Russian Federation
(GARF) was created by order of the Government of the Russian Federation that dates from 1992. 

Gale: Primary Sources 
An online archive of primary source material, across various eras and geographic locations. 
 

Subject Specialist

  • Adrian Legaspi

    History, Religious Studies, Political Science, International Studies, and Modern Languages & Literatures Librarian

    axl641@miami.edu

    305-284-3257