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UW-Madison Digital Collections
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Eastern European and Slavic Studies CollectionThe Eastern European Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the study of this region including its history, literature, language, political science and more.
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Russko-kirgizskii slovarʹThis is a digitized copy of a list of terms and phrases in Kazakh along with their Russian translations held in manuscript form by the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, Russia. The manuscript is part of the collection of the "Otdel rukopisei i redkikh knig" (Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books). The manuscript is part of the Adelung collection, so named because the materials were once part of the personal library of Fedor Pavlovich Adelung (1768-1843), an early nineteenth century Russian philologist.
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Islam and Eurasia : Bridging the Information DivideTen digitized English language travel accounts by persons who journeyed through Muslim regions of the Russian Empire. The earliest of these accounts is that of American George Ditson who traveled through the Caucasus in 1847 and the latest of the selected texts is that of Stephen Graham who traveled through Russian Central Asia on the eve of World War I. Also included is the turn of the century account of British traveler Annette M.B. Meakin about her journey to Turkestan.As primary sources accessible to an English speaking audience and because of their rich content and unique viewpoints, travel accounts such as these benefit all research levels. These accounts present a wealth of cultural, ethnographic and geographic information regarding the Muslim regions of the Russian empire in the period from the middle of the 19th Century through the beginning of the 20th Century.
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Russian Satirical JournalsA digitized subset of the paper holdings of early 20th-century Russian political and satirical journals held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in the Department of Special Collections. These journals are, for the most part, representative of political and satirical journals published during the small window of relative press freedom which existed in Russia from the Imperial Decree (Ukaz) on the press issued on November 24th (Old Style), 1905 until new stricter press regulations were issued on March 18th (Old Style), 1906. A few of the items such as Krasnobai and Kolo-kol'chik are difficult to date precisely, and a few items such as Nakanune, Obryv and Proselok represent publications which come from the period following the new March 18th, 1906 regulations.The collection of these journals held by the University of Wisconsin was undertaken over many years. Some were acquired in 1949 as part of the Russian Underground Collection, more were then acquired in Geneva by then Slavic Bibliographer Alexander Rolich in 1965, and further titles were acquired from an antiquarian book dealer in New York City in 1966. An overview of the collection was written by Rolich for publication in the 1967 U.W. Library newsletter.
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Japan in ConflictAlthough focusing on Japan, this collection is especially rich in materials relating to the Russo-Japanese War, including many items in the Russian Language. Also included is a Japanese language photo album documenting a Japanese Anti-Soviet exhibition from just before World Wat II (Akairo Roshia o abaku tenrankai : shiryō ichiran shashinchō 赤色ロシアを発く展覧会 : 資料一覧写真帖 )