Ben's Index of Russian History Resources

Index: Links to Online Resources:
The Profession

Tools: Software
Grants & Funding
Taxes
Ethics
Reading & Writing
Style & Citation
Oral History
History Resources Online
Forums & Communities
Index: Links for Russian Historians
Archives, Libraries, & Catalogs
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Soviet Archives: Guides, Online Collections, Etc..
Russian Archives: Laws & Regulations on Use of Personal Information
Bibliographies
Academic Journals
Professional Organizations
Miscellaneous
People
Museums, Exhibits, Memorials

History: A Grad Students Guide
- List of History Ph.D. Programs and Advice on Applying (AHA)
- Guide to Grad School Admissions
- List of History Departments (AHA)
- Data and Trends in the Profession (AHA)
- Advice and Resources for Grad Students
- How to Be A Good Grad Student (Indiana)
- Grad Student Resources on the Web
- Association for Support of Grad Students (ASGS)
- List of Grad Student Associations
- Research Excellence (AHA philosophy)
- Proquest Digital Dissertations (Requires Registration)
- Perspectives
The American Historical Association
- Dissertations in Progress (AHA database)
- Job Listings (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Interfolio

Grants & Funding
- Fellowship Database
- FLAS
- Javits Fellowship
- IREX
- ACTR
- SSRC
- Fulbright-Hays
- Fulbright
- Fulbright in Russia

- Advice on Applying for Fulbright-Hays
- The Art of Writing Grant Proposals (SSRC)
- The Art of Grantsmanship (Toronto)

 

 


SOFTWARE

Note Taking Packages
- OneNote (Microsoft)
- Scribe (based on FileMaker, but set up with historians in mind)

Bibliography
- Endnote (Thompson)
- Citation (Oberon)

Database Software
- FileMaker
- Access

 

TAXES
- IRS rules on Scholarships, Fellowships & Grants (form 970)
- Department of Education Regulations
- How to Calculate the FAFSA EFC (expected family contribution)

 


Citation and Style
- Turabian's Style Guide
- Citing Electronic Information in History
- Citation of Electronic Sources
- Using Primary Sources on the Web
Reading & Writing
- How to Read A Book (Paul Edwards)
- The Writing Center (UW-Madison)
Little Red Schoolhouse (U Chicago Writing Program)

Books and Sources Online
- Gutenberg-e
- The Public Internet Library
- Population Statistics
- Historical Texts Archive
- History Digital Libraries (Academic Info)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (U Michigan)
- The Avalon Project (Documents on History, Law, & Diplomacy)
- Virtual History Library (Florence University)
- The Online Books Page: History
- Internet Library of 18th & 19th Century Journals
- Internet History Source Books (Paul Halsall)

 

Ethics, Plagiarism, Copyright...
- Professional Standards for Historians (AHA; updated 2005)
- How to Detect and Demonstrate Plagiarism (Stuard and Cronon)
- Plagarism.org
- I-thenticate.com
-Turn-It-In.com
- Glatt Plagiarism Services
- A Visit to Copyright Bay & Fair Use Harbor

- Review of Hoffer's "Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud..." in Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2005)

Oral History
- Oral History: Techniques and Procedures
- Tips on Doing Oral History
- Using Oral History (Library of Congress)
- Oral History Association
- The Oral History Society (UK)
- Oral History Exempted from IRB Approval
-more...more...and more...and still more

 

 


History Resources on the Web
- A Student's Guide to Online Research
- Google Scholar
- Syllabus Finder
- Historical Fact Finder
- Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
- Best History Web Sites
- History Teaching Resources online
- The History Guide (Steven Kreis)
- Academic info.net: History
- The Librarian's Index to the Internet
- Dan Graf's Links for Students of History
Humbul Humanities Hub
- History On-Line
- The Center for History & New Media

 

Online Forums & Communities
- H-Net Discussion Logs
-H-Grad
- History Forum
- Talking History
- History World
- British Monarchy Forum
- The Alexander Palace (Discussion of Russian History)
- The China History Forum
- Indian History Forum


RESOURCES FOR RUSSIAN HISTORIANS

Archives Libraries, & Catalogs
- ArcheoBiblioBase
- Russian State Archives
- The Lenin Library
- The Russian State Historical Library
- Russian National Library (St. Pete)
- Russian Central Medical Library
- Russian Social Sciences Library (INION)
- RAN Online Database
- Russian National Bibliography (Knizhnaia letopis', etc)
- Virtual Library of Eastern Europe
- American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
- Russian & East European Virtual Library
- Library of Congress
- U.S. National Archives
- Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries

Russian Archives: Laws & Regulations on Use of Personal Information
- Regulations on the use of personal Information found in Russian Archives
-
Russian Law on Personal Information, Secrets, Archives, etc - a primer (courtesy of Perm oblast' archive)
- Current legislation on Russian Archives (Rossarkhiv)

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Bol'shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia online
- Dal' - Slovar' Russkogo Iazika

Soviet Archives: Guides, Online Collections, Etc..
- GARF Opisi: ILL from UIC
- Moscow Archives: The Warwick Guide
- Olga Glagoleva's Intro to Working in Russian Archives (Toronto)
- Working in Archives: A Glossary of Useful Terms
- Microfilm of Soviet Archives (Hoover)
- "Everyday Stalinism", RGAE fond 1562 (IDC)
- "Everyday Stalinism II" RGAE fond 396 (IDC)
- Soviet Politics in the Stalin Era: An Online Database (Melbourne)
- Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)
- Comintern Online (IDC)
- Stalin Era Research &  Archives Project (University of Toronto)
- Vladimir Bukovsky's Online Collection of Archival Documents (Human Rights)
- Cold-War  Era Documents Online (Harvard)
- National Security Archives
- Eastview's Digital Putovoditel' Project
- Translated Russian History Documents (Norwich)
- European Archives: An Online Guide
- Archives Scouting Project (U. Wisconsin)


Bibliographies
- Bibliographic Research Guide to Soviet History (Andrea Graziosi)
- Research   Guide to Soviet  History (Donald Raleigh)
- The Great Terror in the Provinces (Marc Junge, Rolf Binner, Terry Martin)
- Women in Russia (Matt Payne)
- Researching Imperial Russia (Adeliade)
- Russian Autobiographies in English Translation (D. Kaiser)
- Russian Reference Works (Stanford)
- Basic References for Russian History & Literature (Berkeley)

Professional Organizations (Russia & Eastern Europe)
- American Association for The Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies
- Early Slavic Studies Association
- American Association for Ukrainian Studies
- Slavic & East European Folklore Association

- Job Listings (AAASS)
- Calls for Papers (AAASS)

 


Academic Journals
- Free History Journals Online (an overview)
- Russian Review
- Slavic Review
- Kritika
- Voprosy istorii
- Ab Imperio
- The Journal of Modern History (JMH)
- The American Historical Review (AHR)
- Cahiers du Monde Russe
- Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki

Miscellaneous & Not Yet Categorized Links

- Praxis (Visa and Archive Support)
- H-Russia
- Pay Someone Else to Do Preliminary Research
- Slavic Cataloging Manual (Princeton)- PERSIS Political Economy Working Papers (Warwick)
- Soviet Trade: The Online Appendixes (Hessler)
- Translations of the Laws of Rus' (Daniel Kaiser)
- Two Villages in Post-Emancipation Russia; 1.3 meg pdf (Herdis Kolle)
- Russian History Links (Hokaido University
- Oleg Lantsev's Russian History Site (in Russian)
- Imperial Russian History Links (Eric Lohr)
- Russian History.org (Now shilling porn)
- Ben's Map of Moscow Book Stores

- John Potter's Russian History Blog



Museums, Exhibits, Memorials
- State Historical Museum
- Soviet Poster Exhibit
Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
- The Russian Empire Circa 1910, Full Color
- Cold War International History Project
- The Commissar Vanishes (Falsification of Photographs)
- Frosted Windows (Historic Photos of St. Pete)
- Russia's Institute for the History of Science and Technology
- History Source Book: The Russian Revolution
- Chronology of Russian History (Bucknell) defunct?
- Illustrated History of Russia
- Moscow History Museum
History of the Jews in Russia
- Scandinavian Homeland for the Rus'
- Alexander II & His Times (Walter Moss)
- Alexander Palace.org (virtual tour)
- 1936 Show Trials: Report of Court Proceedings (ArtBin)
- Digital Gallery of Historical Photos - Russia (NY Public Library; mostly imperial period)
- Memorial
- History of Soviet Science
- Virtual Tour of Lenin's Mausoleum
- Stereoscopic Images of Imperial Russia (Riverside)
- The House on the Embankment Museum
- Ivanov's pictures of Russian History
- The Russian Revolution
- Nicholas & Alexandra Fan Page
- Birobidzhan (Swarthmore)
- Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (NYPL)
- The Khrushchev Yeas (in russian)
- Internet Archive of Marxist Texts
- Lenin Online
- History of The Moscow Metro
- History of The Communal Apartment
- Museum of the Revolution
- Trans-Siberian Railway

People:
Alexopoulos, Golfo
Altshuler, Mordechai
Andrews, James
Andrle, Vladimir
Applebaum, Anne
Ash, Timothy Garton
Bailes, Kendall E. (obit)
Ball, Alan
Balzer, Harley
Barber, John
Blum, Alain
Bone, John
Boym, Svetlana
Brandenberger, David
Brooks, Jeffrey
Brown, Archie
Brown, Julie Vail
Burbank, Jane
Burds, Jeffrey
Burton, Christopher
Bushnnell, John
Clark, Katerina
Cohen, Stephen F.
Colton, Timothy J.
Conquest, Robert
Daniels, Robert
Davies, R. W.
Davies, Sarah
David-Fox, Michael
d'Encausse, Helene Carrere
Deutscher, Isaac
Dunstan, John
Edelman, Robert
Emmons, Terence
Engelstein, Laura
Etkind, Alexander
Ewing, E. Thomas
Figes, Orlando
Filtzer, Donald
Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Franklin, Simon
Freeze, Gregory
Frierson, Cathy A.
Gerovitch, Slava
Getty, J. Arch
Gleason, Abbott
Goering, Laura
Goldman, Wendy
Gorlizki, Yoram
Gorodetsky, Gabriel
Graham, Loren
Gregory, Paul
Grois, Boris
Hagenloh, Paul
Halfin, Igal
Harris, James
Harrison, Mark
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi
Haslam, Jonathan
Healy, Dan
Hellbeck, Jochen
Hellie, Richard
Hessler, Julie
Hoffmann, David
Holloway, David
Holmes, Larry
Holquist, Peter
Hosking, Geoffrey
Hough, Jerry
Hughes, Lindsey
Husband, William
Inkeles, Alex
Joravsky, David
Josephson, Paul
Jowitt, Ken
Kaiser, Daniel
Khalid, Adeeb
Kharkhordin, Oleg
Khlevniuk, Oleg
Keenan, Edward
Kelly, Catriona

Kessler, Gijs
Kivelson, Valerie
Kleimola, Anne
Koenker, Diane
Kollmann, Nancy
Kotkin, Stephen
Kotsonis, Yanni
Kozhevnikov, Alexei
Krementsov, Nikolai
Krylova, Anna
Kuromiya, Hiroaki
Lahusen, Thomas
Ledeneva, Alena
Lenoe, Matthew
Lih, Lars
Linz, Susan
Manning, Roberta
Martin, Janet
Martin, Terry
McCannnon, John
McReynolds, Louise
Merridale, Catherine
Michaels, Paula
Millar, James
Miller, Martin
Naiman, Eric
Naimark, Norman
Nathans, Benjamin
Neuberger, Joan
Osokina, Elena
Paperno, Irina
Payne, Matt
Petrone, Karen

Phillips, Laura

Pinnow, Kenneth
Pohl, Michaela
Pollock, Ethan
Qualls, Karl
 Rabinowitch, Alexander
Radkey, Oliver
Ransel, David
Raleigh, Donald
Rosenberg, William
Rossman, Jeffre
Rowland, Daniel

Sakwa, Richard

Sanborn, Joshua
 Saunders, David
 Service, Robert
Shanin, Teodor
Shearer, David
Siegelbaum, Lewis
Sirotkina, Irina
Slezkine, Yuri
 Solomon, Susan Gross
Solomon, Peter
 Stites, Richard
Steinberg, Mark
 Suny, Ronald Grigor
Taubman, William
Thurston, Robert
Tomoff, Kiril
 Tumarkin, Nina
Ulam, Adam (obit)
Vinitskii, Ilya
 Viola, Lynne
Volkogonov, D.
Volkov, Vadim
 von Hagen, Mark
Ward, Chris
 Wcislo, Frank
Weiner, Douglas
Weiner, Amir
Wertsch, James
 Wood, Elizabeth
Worobec, Christine
Wortman, Richard
Youngblood, Denise
 Zubkova, Elena
Zubok, Vladislav



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