Slavic  

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The Slavic and East European collections contain over 588,500 volumes on Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the countries of Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. The collections, which are accessed through the Library's Horizon Catalog and LENS browser, include material from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences and in all of the vernacular languages of these geographic areas. The collections are especially strong in Slavic philology and linguistics, Russian and other Slavic literatures, history, economics, political science, geography, and the history of religions. The Slavic Reference Collection, numbering over 7,500 volumes, is located at the east end of the Second Floor Reading Room (RR2S), and includes a wide selection of specialized bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, serial indexes, library catalogs, archival guides and other research aids.

 CHANGES FOR THE SLAVIC REFERENCE COLLECTION AND THE HISTORY COLLECTIONS IN REGENSTEIN BOOKSTACKS

As part of the general reconfiguration of the Regenstein reading rooms, the Slavic Reference Collection has been moved. It is now located in the center section of the 4^th Floor Reading Room of Regenstein Library. The 2^nd and 3^rd floor reading rooms will house a General Reference Collection in one A-Z Library of Congress classification (a merging of the various Humanities and Social Sciences reference materials previously located in reading rooms 2-5). Call numbers A-L of general reference will locate in the Second Floor Reading Room and call numbers M-Z will locate in the Third Floor Reading Room.

As part of the general reconfiguration of the Regenstein bookstacks, materials classified in D (World History) will, for the first time, be located together in one sequence in the 2^nd Floor Bookstacks. This includes:

·         DAW (history of Central Europe)—to be moved from the 5^th floor

·         DB (history of Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austro-Hungarian Empire)--to be moved from the 5^th floor

·         DF (history of Ancient & Modern Greece)—already shifted to its new 2d floor location

·         DK (history of Russia/Soviet Union and the countries of the former USSR, history of Poland)—in the process of being shifted to its new 2d floor location

·         DJK (history of Eastern Europe)--o be moved from the 5th floor

·         DR (history of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, countries of the former Yugoslavia)—to be moved from the 5^th floor

It is anticipated that the entire reorganization of the Regenstein bookstacks will be complete by the end of Spring Quarter 2012.  To find out where and when books are moving, visit http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/h/move . For background on why the books are moving and what the final arrangement will look like, visit http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/reg/using/floorplans/background.html

One of the many photographs taken by Samuel Northrup Harper during his visits to Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

You've indicated that you'd like to see more e-books, so we're starting to acquire them. Below are a few to review.

NEW E-BOOKS ACQUISITIONS

• Childhood / Maxim Gorky (2010)
• Church and State: Religious Nationalism and State Identification in Post-Soviet Romania /Christian Romosea (2011)
• Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia /Brian Jame Baer (2011)
• Clitics in Greek: A Minimalist Account of Proclisis and Enclisis / Marios Mavrogiogos (2010)
• The Cold War in Psychiatry: Human Factors, Secret Actors / Robert van Voren (2010)
• A Comprehensive Russian Grammar / Terence Wade (2011)
• The Emergence of the Bohemian State / Petr Charvat (2010)
• Historical Dictionary of Kosovo / Robert Elsie (2011)
• Historical Dictionary of Lithuania / S. Suziedelis (2011)
• Inurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus / Robert W. Schaefer (2010)
• The Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic: Select Papers on Slovene Historiography and Medieval History / Peter Stih (2010)
• Power, Culture and Economic Change in Russia: To the Undiscovered Country of Post-Socialism / Jeffrey Hass (2011)
• Socialist Alternative to Boshevik Russia: The Socialist Revolutionary Party / Elizabeth White (2011)
• Writers at work: Russian production novels and the construction of Soviet culture / Mary A. Nicholas. (2010)

DATABASES

• Izvestiia Digital Archive
• Soviet Samizdat Periodicals (University of Toronto)
• Pravda Digital Archive
• Databse of Publications From Central Asia

 OTHER

• LibGuide on Russian & Soviet Literature
• Checklist of Recently Received Films & Documentaries

 NEW SERIAL TITLES

• Blok. Międzynarodowe pismo poświęcone kulturze stalinowskiej i poststalinowskiej (Bydgoszcz) [HX40.B56]
• Cultures d'Europe centrale (Paris)  [AZ638.5.A1C85]
• Folklorica (Lexington)  [GR138.S44 Regenstein]
• Istoricheskii vestnik (Nal'chik)  DK511.C21757]
• Linguistica Copernicana (Torun)  [P9.L49]
• Literaturoznawstwo (Lodz)  [PG7001.L56]
• Politics in Central Europe: The Journal of the Central European Political Science Association (Plzen)  [DAW1001.P65]
• Politiko-filosofskii ezhegodnik (Moskva)  [JA74.5.P646]
• Russkoe vremia: zhurnal konservativnoi mysli (Moskva)  [JC573.2.R88]
• Sovremennoe eseninovedenie (Riazan')  [PG3476.E8Z4586]
• Tsitata (Moskva)  [PG2900.T75]
• Vestnik Obshchestva issledovatelei Drevnei Rusi (Moskva)  [PG3001.V48]
• Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Cracow)  [PR6005.O4Z4581Y43]
• Zinziver: Sankt-Peterburgskii literaturno-khudozhestvennyi zhurnal (SPb) [PG3199.Z55]

 OTHER NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS

• Anti-Semitism and Nationalism at the End of the Soviet Era (138 fiches)  [microfcDK285.5.A585 1993  3rd floor microforms]
• Litsevoi letopisnyi svod XVI veka: Russkaia letopisnaia istoriia. 2009-  v. 1-  [PG3300.L58L58 2009  Regenstein bookstacks]
• Russian Regional Archival Guides (250 guides on 30 reels of microfilm) [microfmCD1711.R87 2003  3rd floor microforms]

 REFERENCE

• Anglo-russkii slovar' voennogo slenga (Daminova)
• Arkhivna ukrainika v Kanadi: dovidnyk
• Atlas of Moscow: Cartographic Encyclopedia
• Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
• Dictionar biografic de istorie a Romaniei
• Kirilo-Metodievska bibliografiia 1516-1934
• Kirilo-Metodievska bibliografiia 1934-1944
• Putevoditel' po kinofotodokumentam Rossiiskogo gos. arkhiva kinofotodokumentov (RGAKFD)
• Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society
• Rukh oporu v Ukraini 1960-1990: entsyklopedychnyi dovidnyk
• To Helleniko lexiko: orthographiko, hermeneutiko, etymologiko

NEW AT THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES  [Can be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan]

• Cossack Newspapers During World War II
• Imperial Russia's Illustrated Press  [5 titles on 580 microfiches]
• Muslims in Russia 1881-1918 [11 titles on 30 fiches and 49 reels of film]
• Zapoliar'e (Vorkuta) 1952-1970  [microfilm]

NEW EXHIBITS

• Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011: Playwright, Dissident, Statesman: A Life of Courage
  

ART IN THE SECOND FLOOR READING ROOM

• Dreaming of Each Other: In Memory of Professor Anna Lisa Crone 
• Aleko Konstantinov: To Chicago and Back