Slavic Humanities Index [Toronto, Ontario] : Slavus, [2013?]- We would like to bring to your attention the Slavic Humanities Index, a fairly new bibliographic database in the field of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European Studies. It provides access to important scholarly periodicals published in the region that until recently had remained largely unindexed. It […]
Padomju Latvijas 25. Gadadienai / 25 Years of Soviet Latvia HOLLIS # 010022937 In 1965 the USSR celebrated the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Soviet power in Latvia. The date was marked by festivals, a commemorative stamp, a special meeting of the Latvian Communist Party’s central committee, the opening of the now-famous restaurant […]
The Poliksena N. Shishkina-Iavein digital image collection HOLLIS # 013606912 This new digital collection of over 140 images documents the life of Poliksena N. Shishkina-Iavein (1875-1947). A physician and leading member of the pre-revolutionary Russian feminist movement, she is best known for her pivotal role in securing the vote for Russia’s women in […]
Stalin Digital Archive [New Haven] Yale University Press, 2011- HOLLIS # 13752638 Harvard ID-holders now have access to Stalin Digital Archive, a web-based archive of primary and secondary research documents that have previously only been available at the RGASPI archive in Russia. Specifically, The Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents from Fond […]
Soviet ephemera, 1976-1978. HOLLIS # 014148652 Introducing another ephemera collection that has been made available recently in both physical and digitized form. This small collection contains 3 groups of documents: materials produced in connection with the 89th anniversary of a 1887 students’ political meeting (“Leninskai͡a skhodka”) at the Kazan university (1976), a book censor’s […]
Iskusstvo kino Moskva, 1931- HOLLIS # 000170066 The Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive (by Minneapolis, MN : East View Information Services, available for Harvard ID holders) captures the complete run (1931-2012) of this illustrated analytical journal of film criticism in a complete online archive, in full-image and fully searchable text. Initially published monthly from 1931-1941 (in […]
As part of the project to preserve old and fragile books through digitization, 432 such titles published before 1922 have recently been digitized and are accessible directly from HOLLIS. The titles were published in various Slavic countries, and most of them are in various Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Church […]
Russian ephemera collection (late 1980s-1990s) is a collection of materials and artifacts related to various political events, movements, parties and personalities that were part of the political life in the former Soviet Union and Russia between 1987 and 1999. This was a vibrant and very important period in the history […]
Bogema. Petrograd : Izdatelʹ: V.M. Silin, 1915. HOLLIS # 004962239-0 I would like to bring to your attention the following title recently acquired by the Slavic division. Bogema was a short-lived literary magazine. Its total of 6 issues were published in Petrograd in 1915 by Larisa Reisner and Vladimir Zlobin. Harvard is now the only […]
Three catalogs of the Houghton Library’s Kilgour collection of early editions of Russian literature, one of them, the seminal 1959 catalog, and the other two published in connection with exhibitions in 1977 and 1987, are now digitized and available directly from HOLLIS: The Kilgour Collection of Russian literature, 1750-1920 : with notes on early books […]