LITTRANS 234: Soviet Life and Culture Through Literature and Art from 1917 (Spring 2024) : 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.

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.

RILM contains an extensive collection of abstracts and bibliographic records focused on music and music related subjects. Content dates from late 18th century to the present.

Includes articles on analysis of scholarly music topics.

Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, comedy, storytelling, opera, and more.

Database of full-text articles and books for the study of theater and the performing arts.

Contains hundreds of hours of dance productions and documentaries by 20th century performers and companies. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.

"Theatre In Video" contains hundreds of definitive performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries, online in streaming video, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics.

Provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazines covering all business disciplines.

The major index for architecture research.

Earliest articles are from 1970; most are from the 1990s to the present. (Updated quarterly)

Women's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, dissertations, and reports from throughout the world, starting in about 1972.

ABM focuses on art from the late 19th century to the present.

Begins with 2008 data. Focus is European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.

The index created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), covers 340 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward.

Humanities Index Complete is a comprehensive database covering more than 2,100 journals, books and other important reference sources published worldwide in the humanities.

This article database includes information on a large number of authors and literary works taken from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and other sources. In addition to biographical information, It includes full-text articles from more than 130 literary journals, a dictionary of literary terms, and links to 5,000 relevant Web sites and special collections.

The "Slavistik-Portal" 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.

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.

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

This database contains data for 1991-2007, It has about 85.500 citations and was developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. Work on adding records to EBSEES ended in 2007

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.