HISTORY 201: Film & Censorship in the Soviet Union (Fall 2025) : Subject-Specific Databases

American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), provides citations to scholarly publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

A collection of various electronic resources marketed by Eastview, including Russian newspapers, academic journals and e-books, election campaign ephemera, statistical publications from the Russian Federation and the CIS countries and other electronic resources.

Humanities Index Complete is a comprehensive database covering more than 2,100 journals, books and other important reference sources published worldwide in the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.

Index to 125,000 films, from silent movies to current releases from 170+ countries. Includes biographical information, awards, plot summaries, full cast and crew lists.

Reference tool of authoritative research guides on Cinema and Media Studies that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

The Modern Languages Association International Bibliography indexes 4,000 periodicals in English and other languages as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. It includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.

Open Sourse on-line archive of Soviet history primary sources

The Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) is the result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press. SDA provides online access to Stalin's correspondence, library (with notations), documents, and more, which were previously only available in hard copy in the RGASPI archive.

The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online is a digitized collection of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the Joint Publications Research Service provide English language translations of foreign (including Soviet) broadcast news and technical reports

The "Slavistik-Portal" is based on the project "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Slavistik" (ViFa Slavistik). ViFa Slavistik is a central contact point for specialized information on Slavic Studies. It is primarily aimed at scholars and students interested in Slavic Studies, Slavic languages and literature as well as Slavic folklore.