Research Guides: Russian & East European Studies: Background Information

Reference Resources

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Oxford Bibliographies combines features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, giving researchers scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Subjects:
African Studies
African American Studies
American Literature
Anthropology
Art History
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
British and Irish Literature
Buddhism
Childhood Studies
Chinese Studies
Cinema and Media Studies
Classics
Communication
Criminology
Ecology
Education
Hinduism
International Law
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Literary and Critical Theory
Medieval Studies
Military History
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health
Renaissance and Reformation
Social Work
Sociology
Victorian Literature

Abbreviation: oxbib
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: Religion, Urban and Regional Planning, *General / Multi-Subject, Bibliography
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Research Starter
Oxford Reference (5 concurrent user limit) This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference contains over 100 general and subject dictionaries, and language reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes quotations, proverbs, place-names and other general reference works. Among the English language reference works are thesauri and a wide variety of dictionaries (e.g. grammar, abbreviations, idioms, eponyms, euphemisms). Foreign language dictionaries include German, Italian, and Spanish. Specialized subject dictionaries are available in a wide range of disciplines.
Please note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.

Subjects:
Archaeology
Art & Architecture
Bilingual dictionaries
Classical studies
Encyclopedias
English Dictionaries and Thesauri
History
Language reference
Law
Linguistics
Literature
Media studies
Medicine and health
Music
Names studies
Performing arts
Philosophy
Quotations
Religion
Science and technology
Social sciences
Society and culture

Abbreviation: oxfordref
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
eBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Gale eBooks includes access to encyclopedias, specialized reference sources, and general titles of all disciplines. Designed to enable users to easily cross-search all the content to pinpoint relevant material. Detailed subject indexing allows users to search content based on subject, title, document type, and more.
Abbreviation: gvrl
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
This Collection includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,000 short reference videos, nearly 300,000 high-resolution art images, and thousands of additional images across all subject areas. Subject coverage is especially diverse and equipped to address all key disciplines.
Abbreviation: credo
Vendor: Credo Reference
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Images, Streaming Video

Slavic Information Resources (UIUC)
General reference by subject and country. Useful resource, but many of these titles may not be held by FSU Libraries. Please contact Amauri Serrano, arserrano@fsu.edu to discuss possible avenues for access.

Slavic Studies: a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks by Murlin Croucher (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY Reference -- Z2483.S554 1993
Publication Date: 1993
2 vols
Russian Studies by Leonard B. Shapiro; Harry T. Willetts
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK262.S317 1987
Publication Date: 1987
Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture by Paul Robert Magocsi; Ivan Pop
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2002
Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend by Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY Reference -- BL930.D58 1998
Publication Date: 1998

The Cambridge History of Russia by Maureen Perrie (Editor); Dominic Lieven (Editor); Ronald Suny (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK43.C35 2006
Publication Date: 2006
3 volumes
Russia in World History by Barbara Alpern Engel; Janet Martin
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2015
Russia: what everyone needs to know by Timothy J. Colton
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK510.763.C65 2016
Publication Date: 2016

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Abbreviation: galelit
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1400-Current
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
An freely available repository of Russian literature and literary criticism. Created and maintained by the Gorky Institute of World Literature an the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism This link opens in a new window
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually. It includes almost 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry has an extensive bibliography that includes primary sources and secondary sources.
Tutorials:
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Abbreviation: jhlit
Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Narrative and Freedom by Gary S. Morson
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 5th Floor -- PN212.M67 1994
Publication Date: 1994
This text presents the author's theories about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Using examples from classic literary texts, as well as the Bible and television, it examines the relation of time to narrative form.
The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG3076.W57 2003
Publication Date: 2003
The Cambridge History of Russian Literature by Charles A. Moser (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG2951.C36 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Reference Guide to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY Reference -- PG2940.R43 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Russian Literature by Andrew Baruch Wachtel; Ilya Vinitsky; Andrew Baruch Wachtel; Andrew Wachtel; I. IU Vinitskii; Wachtel
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG2951.W23 2009
Publication Date: 2009
A History of Women's Writing in Russia by Adele Marie Barker (Editor); Jehanne M. Gheith (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG2997.H56 2002
Publication Date: 2002

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Abbreviation: galelit
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1400-Current
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Accent Matters by Tijmen Pronk (Volume Editor); Rick Derksen (Volume Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2011
Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics by Frederik Kortlandt
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2011
Parameters of Slavic Aspect by Stephen M. Dickey
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG160.D53 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Oxford Russian Dictionary by Marcus Wheeler; Boris Ottokar Unbegaun; P. S. Falla; Della Thompson
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY Reference -- PG2640.W5 2007
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon by Rick Derksen
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2008

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Abbreviation: galelit
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1400-Current
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Russia, Europe, and the Rule of Law by Ferdinand J. M. Feldbrugge (Editor)
Call Number: : FSU LAW LIBRARY General Collection -- KLB68.R87 2007
Publication Date: 2006
An international team of authors looks at the role law has played in the transformation of Russia and evaluates the legal achievements of the Putin administration against the background of Russia's changing relationship with Europe.
Russian foreign policy in the twenty-first century and the shadow of the past by edited by Robert Legvold
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK510.764.R866 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Russian Empire: space, people, power, 1700-1930 by Jane Burbank; Mark Von Hagen; A. V. Remnev
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK189.R873 2007 Copy #2
Publication Date: 2007
Reforming the Russian Legal System by Gordon B. Smith; Mary McAuley (Contribution by)
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 1996-12-12

Oxford Music Online (14 concurrent user limit) This link opens in a new window
Covers musical composers, performers, scholars and persons whose contributions are in some way connected to the world of music. Includes 3,000 links to related sites that contain sound archives and illustrations and full-text searching capabilities. Global coverage of articles includes all genres of music from ancient times to the present.
Please note: Oxford Music only allows access for 14 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.

Abbreviation: grove-music
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: Music
Type: Biographies, E-Journal Collections, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Abbreviation: galelit
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1400-Current
Subjects: Literature, Theatre
Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

A Double Garland: poetry and art-song in early-nineteenth-century Russia by Thomas P. Hodge Thomas P. Hodge has produced the first literary-historical study of the art-song enterprise in Russia's Golden Age. A Double Garland investigates the interrelationship of poetry and music in Russia, specifically the relations between poets and composers, from 1800 to 1850. Hodge focuses on three major composers of art songs: Alyab'ev, Verstovskii, and Glinka. He surveys their choices of text and, after some preliminary metrical and structural analysis, proceeds to a detailed consideration of the dynamics of poet/composer interaction from various points of view. Hodge presents both the major and minor poets of this period in the context of Russian musical life. Based on extensive archival research, this study will appeal to specialists in Russian poetry and musicologists.
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG3065.M87H64 2000
Publication Date: 1999
Endquote by Marina Balina (Editor); Nancy Condee (Editor, Introduction by); Evgeny Dobrenko (Editor) Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological clichés of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. An original and provocative guide, Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style examines the conceptual aspect of sots-art, sots-art poetry, and sots-art prose, and discusses where these still-vital intellectual currents may lead.
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- PG3026.P67E53 2000
Publication Date: 1999-12-25
On Russian Music by Richard Taruskin
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2008
Russian Music and Nationalism by Marina Frolova-Walker
Call Number: FSU ALLEN MUSIC LIBRARY General Collection -- ML300.F76 2007
Publication Date: 2008
Alter Icons: the Russian icon and modernity by Douglas Greenfield (Editor); Jefferson J. A. Gatrall (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 4th Floor -- N8189.R9A76 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Russian Cultural Studies by Catriona Kelly (Editor); David Shepherd (Editor)
Call Number: FSU STROZIER LIBRARY General Collection 3rd Floor -- DK276.R87 1998
Publication Date: 1998