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PACSLAV Union List of Large Microform Sets

The following microform sets are available through one or more of the member institutions. For each set, the following information is provided: 1. number of reels or fiche; 2. A brief description; 3. The vendor and purchase information on finding aids or indexes to the set (where available), and; 4. Member institutions that own the set. The idea behind this union list is to reduce the amount of overlap between institutions, and to make these materials available to consortium members by having those institutions that do not own a particular set the option of purchasing the finding aids and having their users request the materials through Interlibrary Loan.

Contents:

The Arts
Biographical Resources
Bibliographic & Reference Resources
History and Politics

• Diplomatic Correspondence
• Materials on the Russian Revolution
• Governmental Reports and Documents
• Other

Linguistic and Literary Texts

The Arts

The Malevich Archive

• 48 fiche
• Chiefly Russian./ "A collection of 35 handwritten texts, typewritten texts, notebooks, and clippings ... [dating] from 1913 to 1927"--publisher's brochure.
• IDC. The Malevich archive in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Printed item list is available .
• ASU, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UCLA,

Biographical Resources

Baltic biographical archive

• 420 fiche
• In English; In English, Estonian, German, and Latvian.
• Baltischer biographischer index , Saur. Also available for free online at http://www.saur-wbi.de/
• Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA
  

Leaders of the Russian Revolution

• 421 reels / 1858 fiche
• Documents reproduced from the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History./ "(The Cambridge Project)"/ Accompanied by printed guide, entitled: Leaders of the Russian Revolution : a guide to the microfilm collection.
• ProQuest/UMI
• USC, OR, Hoover,

Polskie Archiwum Biograficzne. (Polish Biographical Archive)

• 636 fiche
• Alphabetically arranged entries mainly from Polish sources, with entries also from sources in German, French, English, Latin, Russian, and Italian./ Title from caption on frame 1 of fiche I./ Edited by Gabriele Baumgartner
• Polish Biographical Index , Saur. Also available for free online at http://www.saur-wbi.de/
• Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley,

Public figures in the CIS and Baltic States: a biographical index 1984-1993.

• 137 fiche
• A cumulated biographical index to public figures in the Soviet Union and then the CIS and the Baltic States, giving users detailed references to articles, news items, and transcripts of speeches from a wide range of sources. Compiled by staff of Radio Liberty Research, the index contains some 250,000 Russian language entries on 100,000 people.
• ProQuest/UMI
• Berkeley, UCLA, WA, Hoover

Russisches biographisches Arkhiv

• 539 fiche
  
• Consists of approximately 160,000 bibliographical entries for 75,000 individuals from the earliest times to the
  end of the dynasty of the Romanovs in 1917. Compiled from more than 150 source works published between
  1827 and 1995.
• Russischer biographischer Index . 4 volumes. München : K.G. Saur Verlag, 2002. Also available for free online at http://www.saur-wbi.de/
• UA, UW, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford

Soviet biographical archive 1954-1985. (Biographisches Archiv der Sowjetunion [1917-1991])

• 2812 fiche
• With one million clippings from over 35 newspapers and magazines and abstracts on over 50,000 people, the Archive is an invaluable source of information for governmental and international organizations, scientific and academic institutions, the media and individual researchers. Entries mostly in Russian and English, with some in German, French and Portuguese.
• ProQuest/UMI
• Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Hoover
  

Bibliographic & Reference Resources

European official statistical serials

• Bulgaria (251 fiche), Czechoslovakia (138 fiche), Poland (141 fiche), Romania (218 fiche), Russia (59 fiche), USSR (93 fiche)
• Based on a major research project at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, this microfiche collection includes economic, financial, social and demographic statistics issued by the governments of nearly every European country. The collection provides ready access to the detailed information essential to historians and other researchers working on nineteenth and twentieth century European political and economic affairs.
• Now available through ProQuest/UMI.
• USC, Stanford, Berkeley
  

The Slavic cyrillic union catalog of pre-1956 imprints

• 174 fiche
• In multiple languages. Compiled by the Library of Congress
• Guide: None
• UA, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford

ZEMSTVO Statistics; Russia 1870-1917

• Microfiche
• Materials on aspects of Russian society compiled by statisticians from provincial administrative agencies established after the reforms of the 1860s. Besides agricultural economy, there are data on public health, education and industry. Includes materials on the Kostroma, Moscow, Riazan, and Saratov regions, as well as general works.
• Guide available on CD ROM through IDC
• UCLA

History and Politics : Diplomatic correspondence

Diplomatic Correspondence of British Ministers to the Russian Court, 1 704-1776

• 105 fiche
  
• The diplomatic dispatches were originally published in Sbornik imperatorskago russkago istoricheskago obshchestva . The letters, mostly in English, contain information about the relations of two of the major powers of Europe, and therefore indirectly about international relations during the 18th century.
• Guide: Index to the Diplomatic correspondence of British ministers to the Russian Court 1704-1776. Bishops Stortford, England, Chadwyck-Healey ltd.,1973
• UCLA, ASU, Berkeley, UW

British Diplomatic Blue Books: The Russian Empire,1801-1899

• 228 fiche
  
• Consists of dispatches and reports that arrived at the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. These Parliamentary Papers were presented to the House of Commons and contain materials on the Napoleonic Wars (1806-1816), Turkish affairs and the Crimean War (1828-1880), Polish affairs (1831-1898), Central Asia (1873-1895), the Hague Conference (1899), and other events.
• Guide: Dublin : Irish Microforms. Series: British diplomatic blue books; 1801-99; [Out of Print?]
• UCLA,

Papers of Queen Victoria on Foreign Affairs: Russia & Eastern Europe, 1846-1900

• 4 reels
• This part of the Royal Archives collection on Russia deals with Russia's relations with France and Germany, the complications of the Sino-Japanese war and the purchase of Alaska.
• Guide: A guide to the microfilm edition of the papers of Queen Victoria on foreign affairs : files from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1993
• UCLA; ASU, UA, Stanford, Berkeley, UW
  

Despatches from U.S. Ministers to Russia, 1808-1906

• 66 reels - SRLF
• Description
• Guide: National Archives microfilm publications ;; microcopy no. 35
• UCLA, ASU, OSU, UA, (UW, UO in reduced form), Stanford
  

Russia in Transition: The Diplomatic Papers of David Rowland Francis, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1916-18

• 11 reels
• Chronicles American involvement in and perceptions of the Russian Revolution through reports and letters to the State Department and to friends and associates in America.
  Guide: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America. Accompanied by print reel guide .
• UCLA, OSU, UW

British Foreign Office Russia Correspondence, 1883-1948

• 988 reels
• "The records of the London Files containing material received from abroad or from London. In addition the collection includes public proclamations by various national leaders, governments and organizations, communications with foreign governments, pertinent publications, personal requests made of the Foreign Office and records of parliamentary questions directed to the Foreign Office."
• Index (in 5 volumes) Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources ( Guides available separately )
• UCLA, UW
  

U.S. Confidential Diplomatic Post Records; Russia and the Soviet Union, 1914-1941; Parts 1-3

• 145 reels
• Covers congresses and conferences, commerce, relations of states and the internal affairs of state.
• Guide: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America. Printed guide in 3 volumes
• UCLA, UW, Hoover, UCSB

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History and Politics: Materials on the Russian Revolution

Newspapers from the Russian Revolutionary Era

• 455 reels
• The collection is based on the holdings of Columbia University's Lehman Library. It consists of Russian and foreign newspapers covering almost every facet of the Russian revolution, providing local and outside views of the turbulent era.
  Newspapers are cataloged individually.
• Guide: Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications. [ Now available through Gale Primary Source Microfilm ] Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• UCLA , UCSB, UW

Russian Revolutionary Literature

• 47 reels
• The collection includes 1170 titles from Harvard's Houghton Library and other sources. It covers the period beginning with the 1825 Decembrist uprising to 1917 and beyond. It contains books, pamphlets, journals, ephemeral and anonymous works. Most of the material was published abroad or on underground presses within Russia, but a few legally-issued publications of major authors are also in the collection."
• Guide: Russian revolutionary literature collection : a descriptive guide and key to the collection on microfilm . New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1976; [ Now available through Gale Primary Source Microfilm ] Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• UCLA; UA, UW, Berkeley, U of Hawaii,

Russian Revolutionary Pamphlets, 1860-1923

• 323 fiche
• Reproductions of 243 pamphlets unique to the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics)
• Guide: Russian revolutionary pamphlets, 1860-1923, from the British Library of Political & Economic Science : guide to the microfiche collection. Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England : Altair Pub., 1989 [Now available through Norman Ross ]
• UCLA, Hoover, Berkeley, Stanford

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History and Politics: Governmental Reports and Documents

U.S. State Department Records/Files Relating to Internal Affairs:
Primarily instructions and dispatches from U.S. diplomatic and consular staff regarding political, economic, military, social and other internal conditions and events.

Czechoslovakia

• 32 reels; Czechoslovakia, 1910-44; Guide: Guide to the National Archives microfilm edition of Records of the U.S.Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1910-1944 : decimal file 860f. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1987 ; UCLA
• 17 reels; Czechoslovakia, 1945-49; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1945-1949 :
  decimal file 860f. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resource s, 1987 ;UCLA
• 15 reels; Czechoslovakia, 1950-54; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1950-1954 : decimal files 749, 849, and 949 . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1987 ;UCLA
• 8 reels; Czechoslovakia, 1955-59; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1955-1959 :
  Department of State decimal files 749, 849, and 949 . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resource s, 1987; UCLA

Poland

• 75 reels; Poland, 1916-44; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Poland, 1916-1944 . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1986; UCLA
• 29 reels; Poland, 1945-49; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Poland, 1945-1949 . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1986: UCLA
• 17 reels; Poland, 1950-54; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Poland, 1950-1954 . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1986; 1986; UCLA
• 16 reels; Poland, 1955-59; Guide: Guide to Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs of Poland, 1955-1959. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1986; 1987; UCLA

[Because the correspondence with U.S. diplomatic and consular offices in Imperial Russia between 1910-1917 was limited, and formal relations between the U.S. and Russia after the November Revolution were discontinued, most of the dispatches reproduced in the following six sets came from diplomatic and consular offices in the Baltic States, in the Scandinavian countries, Poland, Germany and China.]

Russia/Soviet Union/Ukraine

• 177 reels; Russia/Soviet Union, 1910-29; Guide: 1960; UCLA
• 75 reels; Soviet Union, 1930-39; Guide; UCLA
• 34 reels: Soviet Union, 1940-44; Guide; UCLA
• 39 reels; Soviet Union, 1945-49; Guide: 1984; UCLA
• 38 reels; Soviet Union, 1950-54; Guide: 1985: UCLA
• 46 reels; Soviet Union, 1955-59; Guide: 1989: UCLA
• 6 reels; Ukraine, 1918-49; Guide?: UCLA

Yugoslavia

• 27 reels; Yugoslavia, 1910-29; Guide: 1986: UCLA
• 28 reels; Yugoslavia, 1930-44; Guide?: UCLA
• 18 reels; Yugoslavia, 1945-49; Guide: 1986; UCLA
• 23 reels; Yugoslavia, 1950-54;Guide: 1986; UCLA
• 18 reels; Yugoslavia, 1955-59; Guide: 1986; UCLA

U.S. State Department Files Relating to Political Relations:

• 46 reels; Eastern Europe, 1930-39; Guide?; UCLA
• 5 reels; Eastern Europe, 1940-44; Guide?; UCLA

U.S. State Department Files Relating to Political Relations Between Russia/Soviet Union and Other States:

• 20 reels; 1910-29; Guide? UCLA
• 14 reels; 1930-39; Guide? UCLA
• 4 reels; 1940-44; Guide? UCLA
  

U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Political Relations Between the U.S. and Russia/Soviet Union: Before 1917 the documents are mostly instructions to and dispatches from diplomatic and consular officials. As there were no American diplomatic representatives in Moscow after 1917, most records originated from Vladivostok during the years 1917-1919 and from American diplomatic posts in the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Germany and China during the years 1920-29

• 7 reels; 1910-29; Guide: 1960; UCLA
• 3 reels; 1930-39; Guide?; UCLA
• 1 reel; 1940-44; Guide?; UCLA

U.S. State Department Confidential Central Files--The Soviet Union: Foreign Affairs

• 10 reels; 1945-49; Guide: 1984; UCLA
• 12 reels; 1950-54; Guide: 1985; UCLA
• 15 reels; 1955-59; Guide: 1989; UCLA

U.S. State Department Records Relating to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Yugoslavia:

• 1 reel; 1910-29; Guide 1986; UCLA
  

U.S. State Department Records Relating to Political Relations Between Yugoslavia and Other States:

• 9 reels; 1910-1929; Guide: 1986; UCLA

U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Internal Affairs of Montenegro and to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Montenegro:

• 2 reels; 1910-29; Guide?; UCLA

U.S. State Department Records Relating to the Internal Affairs of Serbia and to Political Relations Between the U.S. and Serbia:

• 3 reels; 1910-29; Guide?; UCLA

OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: Consist of monographs and reports prepared by leading scholars for the Office of Strategic Services and the U.S. State Department during World War II and the postwar period.

• 8 reels; Soviet Union, 1941-49; Guide; UCLA
• 6 reels; Soviet Union, 1950-61; Guide:1963; UCLA

Joint Chiefs of Staff Records: Include material on U.S. military and diplomatic policy toward the Soviet Union. The records of the Joint Chief of Staff cover a variety of strategic topics such as Allied aircraft and bombing missions.

• 2 reels; Soviet Union, 1942-45; Guide: index pt.1; UCLA
• 7 reels; Soviet Union, 1946-53 Guide: index pt.2; UCLA

U.S. Military Intelligence Reports:
American military staff reported on military affairs, domestic politics and government, and foreign affairs based on interviews with military and government officials, evaluations of activities of political parties, and eyewitness coverage of military action.

• 10 reels; Soviet Union, 1919-41; Guide?; UCLA
• 22 reels; Soviet Union, 1941-44. Covers topics such as the Civil War; the intervention of foreign troops; the organization of the Red Army; major events at the Eastern Front such as the invasion June 1941 by Germany, the Soviet offensive 1943-44, the industrial production during the war, the overhaul of the Soviet military leadership, etc."; Guide: 1985; UCLA

U.S. Army Department General Staff, Military Intelligence Division--Correspondence Relating to General, Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in Russia/Soviet Union: 1918-41
Largely reports from the US military attache and his assistants in Russia and the USSR

• 23 reels; Guide 1987; UCLA

CIA Research Reports: These research reports on all aspects of area studies as well as on U.S. foreign policy toward both allies and adversaries examine important developments in area domestic politics, military affairs, economic matters and foreign relations.

• 5 reels; Soviet Union, 1946-1976; Guide?; UCLA

John F. Kennedy National Security Files:

• 3 reels;
• USSR & Eastern Europe, 1961-63. These reels document critical developments in the evolution of U.S. relations with Moscow and its satellites between 1961 and 1963. Include documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Guide 1988;
• UCLA

Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files:

• 1 reel;
• USSR & Eastern Europe, 1963-69. L.B.Johnson's years as president marked an important transitional period in the Cold War. The documents give a good sense of the day-to-day management of U.S.-Soviet relations and a particularly good indication of the ways in which the Vietnam War affected the relationship.
• Guide 1987
• UCLA

Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969-1974: USSR and Eastern Europe.

• 18 reels
• Description
• UPA, 2001.
• UCLA;
  

Soviet Union & Republics of FSU, Special Studies
Studies on the Soviet Union from universities, colleges, corporations, think tanks and individuals contracted by the US Government to provide data and analysis.

• 9 reels; 1970-80; Guide 1967; UCLA
• 8 reels; 1980-82; Guide 1968; UCLA
• 9 reels; 1982-85; Guide 1969; UCLA
• 9 reels; 1985-88; Guide?; UCLA
• 13 reels; 1989-91; Guide 1992; UCLA
• 16 reels; *1992-94; Guide 1995; UCLA

National Security Archive; The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-91

• 190 fiche
• The set publishes together for the first time more than 600 intelligence estimates and reports, representing nearly 14,000 pages of documentation from the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and other organizations, as well as the Pentagon's 1,000-page internal history of the United States-Soviet arms race.
• Guide 1995
• UCLA

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History and Politics: Other

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet state.

• 4992 reels
• A collection of finding aids and records documenting the activities of the Soviet State and Communist Party from 1917 until 1991. Microfilmed from the holdings of the Centre for the Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD), Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI), and the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF)./ Title from guide./ Accompanied by printed guide (1st ed.) issued in 1995 with title: Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State : catalogue of finding aids and documents.
• Guide: Chadwyck Healey. Online version available .
• Hoover, UW
  

The Boris I. Nicolaevsky collection

• 41 reels
• Description
• Guide: Proquest/UMI
• Hoover,
  

The Bund Archive

• 2162 fiche
• Description: Reproduces a collection of documents in various languages (Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French, Ukrainian, Polish) from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow. Topics covered include: History of the Jews in Eastern Europe; Antisemitism in tsarist Russia pogroms; Yiddish culture in Russia; Russian revolutionary parties; Jewish labour movement; Jewish political movement; International socialist movement; Socialist International; Free Trade Unions (ICFTU); Socialist parties in Germany, Great Britain, France, and other European countries; Biographies and correspondence of prominent leaders of socialist movements.
• Guide: IDC. Electronic guide available on CDROM through IDC
• No Holdings

The Cold War and the Central Committee. [from RGANI]

• Series 1 The International Department 1953-1957; 126 reels; Gale/Primary Source Microfilm ; Stanford, UW; CRL
• Series 2 The General Department; 118 reels; Gale/Primary Source Microfilm ; CRL
• Series 3 Congresses of the CPSU 1955-1986; 196 reels / 701 fiches; Gale/Primary Source Microfilm ;
• Series 4 Plenums of the CC CPSU; 181 reels / 659 fiches; Gale/Primary Source Microfilm ; UW, Stanford Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
  

The Comintern Archive

• 14,569 fiche
• The collection is held by the Ohio State University Libraries and consists of the archives of Comintern (i.e., Communist International). Series 1 contains the 1st-4th congresses of Comintern and their indexes./ The indexes to the congresses are found on the following fiche: fiche 1 (1st congress), fiche 30 (2nd congress), fiche 240-242 (3rd congress), and fiche 860-862 (4th congress). Series 2: (Kom 2) contains Plenums I-XIII and their indexes.
• Guide: Finding aid is on CDROM available through IDC
• ??
  

Freemasonry in Russia

• 158 fiche
• Description: Collection documents the early stages (ca. 1750 to 1820?) in the development of freemasonry in Russia. Consists of manuscripts and books, documents, reports, certificates, and pictures of masonic symbols and carpet patterns. The manuscripts are copies or translations of European books from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Works in the collection provide information about masonic literature, constitutions and rites, and also reflect the relationship between Russian and European freemasonry.
• Guide availabe in print through IDC
• ??.
  

Gazety kopeiki: Russian penny newspapers 1908-1918.

• 890 fiches
• Description:
• IDC
• UCLA

The Gulag press

• 649 fiche
• Description: The microfiche collection includes 134 titles "containing 'news' bulletins, posters, literary journals, albums and booklets"--from introduction of guide.
  IDC. Guide to the microform collection the GULAG Press, 1920-1937
• Guide available in print through IDC
• UW

The intercepted correspondence of the Russian revolutionaries from the Special Department of the Police

• 175 reels
• Offering some 1,306 file units, this fascinating collection features letters from individuals representing all social classes, party affiliations and social status.
• Gale Primary Source Microfilm Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• ??
  

The Napoleonic Wars. (Napoleonovskie vony, 1805-1815

• 92 reels
• The VUA collection contains a huge mass of documents, mostly military but also political and diplomatic. It includes the official and private correspondence of the Emperor Alexander, of the Minister of War, and of the key generals. This correspondence features the official battle and campaign reports of units of varying size, from corps to regiments, but it also offers more ephemeral correspondence between Russian commanders, allowing scholars to trace how operations developed through Russian eyes and without the benefit of hindsight.
• Gale/Primary Source Microfilm Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• Berkeley
  

Papers of Prince Gregory Potemkin. Parts 1 and 2. (Dokumenty kniaz'ia Grigoriia Potemkina 1655-1797 gg)

• 253 reels
• Iz fondov Rossiiskogo Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva voenno-istoricheskogo arkhiva, Moskva, Rossiia./ Printed guide accompanies microfilmed reels./ Part 2 covers the years 1655-1787
• Gale. Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• ??

Papers of the Red Army: political and internal intelligence reports 1918-1921. (Bumagi Krasnoi Armii, 1918-1923.)

• 76 reels
• Collection of finding aids and records documenting the activities of the Red Army from the holdings of Russian State Military Archive in Moscow
• Gale. Finding aids on reel 1. Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• UCLA

Papers of the White Army 1917-1921. (Bumagi Beloi Armii, 1917-1921 : from the holdings of Russian State Military Archive Moscow, Russia.)

• 71 reels
• Title from guide./ Accompanied by printed guide which replicates the contents of reel 1 and serves as a finding aid to the collection.
• Gale (Woodbridge). The papers of the White Army, 1917-1921 (finding aid). Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• ??
  

Russian Political Parties Collection

• 597 fiche
• Reproduces 240 titles published in the period 1900-1930 on outlawed and suppressed Russian political parties of the late 19th and early 20th century. Included are populist, agrarian, terrorist, and early socialist groups. Title taken from accompanying print fiche guide, edited by Dr. Anne Pries, and compiled by Galina A. Ivkina.
• Printed guide available through IDC
• UCLA

Zhivopisnaia Rossiia

• 135 fiche
• An illustrated account of the history and culture, as well as the political, social, and economic life of the Russian Empire during the late 19th and early 20th century.
• Guide
• UCLA, Stanford

Lenin to Khrushchev: The USSR in Retrospect, 1917-56 Internal and External Affairs

• 2034 microprint cards
• A collection of pamphlets, booklets and brochures in both English and Russian which chronicles all facets of development in the Soviet Union during the first 40 years of its existence
• Guide:
• UCLA

Records of the Smolensk Oblast 1917-1941

• 75 reels
• Archival files on life in the formative years of the Soviet regime and about the problems confronting the state and population.
• Guide
• UCLA

Russian Archives: Institute of Economics of the Communist Academy, 1921-1937

• 74 reels
• Includes correspondence, records of meetings, academic papers, statistical reports, printed works, and some ephemera.
• Guide: Currently available through Gale Primary Microfilm Some of Gale's guides have been digitized here .
• USC

Russian Imperial Government publications : Collection of publications of the Russian Imperial Government and of several non-governmental organizations of the Russian Empire

• 208 reels
• Varied collection of publications of Russia's pre-revolutionary government. 880 monograph and serial titles totalling 457,000 pages. Includes guide on introductory reel.
• Scholarly Resources
• ASU

The United States and the Russian Civil War: The Betty Miller Unterberger Collection of Documents

• 25 reells
• Covers WWI and the aftermath, concentrating on America's role in the Russian Civil War. Approximately 10,000 documents. Many of the documents are in English or have parallel English translation.
• Scholarly Resources. Guide available ($25) through SR.
• UCLA

Yugoslavia: Peoples, States, and Society

• 109 reels
• Socio-political and historical pamphlets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each title in the collection is cataloged individually.
• Norman Ross: Yugoslavia--peoples, states and society : guide to the microfilm collection : from the collection of the UCLA Library : introduction, indexes & reel guide to the microfilm collection. Printed guide available through Norman Ross
• UCLA

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Linguistic & Literary Texts

Russian Futurism, 1910-16; Poetry and Manifestos

• 54 fiche
• "...the most complete collection of primary material on Russian Futurism before the Revolution. The majority of these titles were reproduced from copies in two large private collections in England and France."
• Guide: Proquest/UMI
• UCLA, USC, Berkeley, Stanford, UA

Church Slavonic and Russian Hagiographies

• 647 fiche
• A collection of hagiographies; translations of paterika and hagiographies, reference works, etc.
• Guide available through IDC
• UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford

Russian Books Before 1701

• 347 reels
• This series consists of nearly 500 surviving books printed in Russia before Peter the Great. Nearly all the titles were recorded by the late Mme. Antonina Zernova in her Knigi kirillovoskoi pechati izdannye v Moskve v XVI-XVII vekakh. Some of these exceptionally rare Russian printed works were in damaged or deteriorating condition when filmed. A printed catalog is supplied free with the complete set of film. The catalog cards have a Romanized main entry, while the destructive portion has been reproduced photographically from the Zernova bibliography.
• Guide: Now available through Norman Ross .
• UCLA

Russian history and culture : scarce books on 19th and 20th century Russia from the Helsinki University Library

• 20, 836 fiche
• From the Helsinki University Library--the Largest Collection of Slavic Research Materials Outside the Soviet Union. Accompanied by printed guides: interim guide issued as loose-leaf for updating with title: Russian history and culture index; bound vol. covering units <1-20, 23, 25, 27, 31-32>.
• Guide: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International , 1987; An online list of the contents is available on the USC Library Webpage. Additional guides available through UMI.
• USC; Berkeley; UW; Stanford, UCLA

Eighteenth Century Russian Publications

• 1000+ reels
• This series is based on the Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka 1725-1800, 1962-67, the definitive bibliography of
  eighteenth-century Russian books. Many titles were in damaged or deteriorating condition when they were filmed. The catalog cards have a Romanized main
  entry while the descriptive portion has been reproduced photographically from the catalog. This continuing collection now contains over 1000reels.
• Guide: Now available through Norman Ross .
• UCLA, Berkeley

Eighteenth Century Russian studies

• 20,076 fiche
• 424 monographs and 31 serial titles. Collection includes 18th, 19th and 20th century editions, journals and secondary works of a biographical, critical or historical nature.
• Guide: Now available through IDC .
• ??
  

Everyday Stalinism: living standards, norms and values of various groups of Soviet people in the 1920s and 1930s

• 1141 fiche
• Original consisted of 57 archival pieces on 27584 pages for materials published from 1925-1939 by the TSentral'noe upravlenie narodnokhoziaistvennogo ucheta and its predecessor agencies. Microfiche prepared from the holdings of the RGAE (Russian State Archive of Economy).
• Now available through IDC . (includes online container list).
• Stanford
  

Forbidden books from the library of A.I. Ostroglazov. (Zapreshchennye knigi v biblioteki A.I. Ostroglazova)

• 323 titles on 694 fiche
• Film of the forbidden books from Ostrogalzov's collection (State Historical Library).
• Available through Norman Ross
• ??
  

The Slavonic Manuscripts of Saint Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon) on Mount Athos

• 28 reels
• A collection of rare Slavonic manuscripts compiled by Dean S. Worth and Anthony-Emil N. Tachaios
• Guide 1981
• UCLA

Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopisei

• In print and continued on microfiche
• A collection of chronicles and other Old Russian texts.
• Guide to this collection on the UCLA website .
• UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford

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