English-Language Russian Newspapers and Journals

 

Translation services

Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 1949-1991. UIC 1969-1991. Call # DK266.A2 C85 and D839 .C87

 

Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Title: Daily report. Soviet Union. From 1971-1991; UIC 1978-. Index. UIC: 3d fl Microforms. PrEx 7.10: FBIS-SOV.

 

 

Politics and current events

The Russian daily news. Nov. 3-Nov. 24, 1917; OCLC: 39891505. Can be found at: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

 

The new Russian daily news.  Petrograd. 1917 - 1918.  Daily. OCLC: 39891577. Can be found at: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

 

The commune. Petrograd; Nov. 7, 1918 - Feb. 17, 1919. Frequency: Weekly. OCLC: 40066372. Can be found at: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

 

Soviet Russia Pictorial (a.k.a. Soviet Russia). 1919-1924. Weekly/Semimonthly. UIC library: June-Dec. 1919 (DK266.A2 S7). U Chicago: DK265.A2S7 (1919-1924).

 

Bulletin of the Russian Information Bureau in the US. New York. 1920-1921. UIUC Call Number: 947 R93B.

 

Russian Information and Review. Weekly, Oct. 1922-May 1925. OCLC: 4684132. Can be found at: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV, UNIV OF CHICAGO.

 

Weekly News Bulletin. Moscow: Weekly. Began 1927? OCLC: 18205569. Can be found at: ARL, NAT REGISTER OF MICROFORM MASTERS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

 

Our way. 1927 - 1931. OCLC: 36405343. Can be found at: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

 

Workers news. Moscow. 1931 - 1932. 3 or 4 times a week. OCLC: 11057608. Can be found at: IL - CENTER FOR RES LIBR  

 

Moscow news, 1930 - 1932. [Moscow daily news. 1932 - 1933.] Frequency: Every 5 days. OCLC: 33098947. Can be found at: IL - CENTER FOR RES LIBR.

 

Moscow news (formerly titled Moscow daily news). Dec. 13, 1933 -, Weekly;  Aug. 30, 1944 -, Semiweekly. OCLC: 12542592. Can be found at: CENTER FOR RES LIBR, ILLINOIS STATE UNIV, LAKE FOREST COL, SKOKIE PUB LIBR, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV.

 

USSR in Construction.  Moscow. 1930 - 1949. Frequency: Monthly. OCLC: 03088867

Can be found at: UIUC.

 

Soviet Russia Today. 1932-1951. UIC warehouse; Shelved by call number: DK266.A2 N46; Monthly.

 

New World Review, New York. 1932-1968. (Feb. 1932)-v. 28 (Dec. 1968). Other Titles: Soviet Russia today; Feb. 1932-Jan. 1951. OCLC: 20654951. Can be found at:  UNIV OF CHICAGO (OCLC: 2926922). NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIV, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV.

 

Soviet Calendar. 1944-1947. Annual. OCLC: 4306271. Found at: SIU at EDWARDSVILLE, UNIV OF CHICAGO.

 

The war and the working class (becomes New times). 1943 - 1945. Semimonthly. OCLC: 41444583. Can be found at: ARIZONA STATE UNIV

 

New Times (formerly titled The war and the working class). 1945-1992. OCLC: 4866398. Can be found at: UIC (1966-1992 only) - Main 2d fl south/Call Number Area D839 .N483. Also:  DEPAUL UNIV, NORTHWESTERN UNIV, UNIV OF CHICAGO, LOYOLA UNIV OF CHICAGO, INDIANA U (D410.N942).

 

Soviet woman. Moscow, Monthly. 1945 - . OCLC: 2267989. Can be found at: ILLINOIS STATE UNIV, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV.

 

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1950 -1992. Monthly. OCLC: 1642588. Can be found at: UIC - (1969-1992 only). IL - GOVERNORS STATE UNIV, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV.

 

Moscow News. 1956-  UIUC Call Number: FILM 057.1 MOSN.

 

Soviet life. Soviet Embassy. Monthly. 1965- [from 1991: Russian Life]

UIUC: Call Number: 057 US. UIC Library 1993-2000 (DK1 .U672).

 

 

Literature and culture

International literature (becomes Soviet Literature). 1932-1945. Frequency: Monthly. Can be found at: UIC - Warehouse, see staff, PG 3213 .S68.

 

Soviet Culture Review (formerly Soviet Culture Bulletin). Moscow. 1931-1934. OCLC: 16952358. Can be found at: UNIV OF CHICAGO.

 

Sovietland Moscow. 1932-1941. Monthly. OCLC: 07084783. UIUC.

 

Soviet Literature (formerly International Literature). Moscow. 1931-1990. Monthly. OCLC: 5879455. Can be found at: UIC - Warehouse, see staff,  PG3213 .S68. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV, TEXAS A&M UNIV.

 

Soviet Musical Chronicle. Moscow. 1945 - 19uu. OCLC: 35272354. Can be found at: HARVARD UNIV, FREE LIBR OF PHILADELPHIA.

 

 

Economics and commerce

Eastern and colonial bulletin. Moscow. 1927 - 1932.  Semimonthly. OCLC: 27097799.  Can be found at: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

 

Economic survey. Moscow. 1934 - 1937. Frequency: Bimonthly/Monthly. OCLC: 7711775. Can be found at: NORTHWESTERN UNIV; UNIV OF CHICAGO.

 

Foreign trade.  Moscow. 1937 - 1999. Monthly. OCLC: 1782064. Can be found at: ILLINOIS STATE LIBR, ILLINOIS STATE UNIV, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV.

 

 

Science and technology

Bulletin of the Leningrad University astronomical observatory. 1932 - ? OCLC: 40210993. Can be found at: UNIV OF CHICAGO

 

Circular.  Leningrad : 1932. Dealing with astronomy; OCLC: 13558072. Can be found at: UNIV OF WISCONSIN, MADISON; OHIO STATE UNIV.

 

Journal of Physics. Moscow. 1939-1947. Monthly. OCLC: 01754736. Can be found at: UIUC, SIUC.

 

 

Naval and military

The Seaman. 1921-1939?; Can be found at: UIUC Newspaper  331.805 SEM  v.1-2.

 

 

Non-Soviet publications

The American sentinel. Archangel, Russia : American Red Cross. 1918 - 1919; Weekly. OCLC: 38306040. Can be found at: UNIV OF MICHIGAN, BENTLEY HIST LIBR

 

The Friend of missions. Riga, Latvia. Apr. 1925-Dec. 1936. OCLC: 32502114. Can be found at:  ARL, NAT REGISTER OF MICROFORM MASTERS.  BAYLOR UNIV; OCLC: 1365945.5. Can also be found at: BILLY GRAHAM CTR, WHEATON COL, SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOL SEMINARY.

 

The New Russia. London. 1920.  Can be found at: UNIV OF CHICAGO.

 

The Red cross bulletin. Riga. 1920 - 1921. OCLC: 40211327. Can be found at: UNIV OF CHICAGO, PRINCETON UNIV.

 

Struggling Russia. Sack, Arkady Joseph. New York. 1919, 1920. OCLC: 1716526. Can be found at:  CHICAGO PUB LIBR, NORTHWESTERN UNIV, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV, UNIV OF CHICAGO.  

 

Young guard. Fox, Ralph Winston. Moscow. 1931. Bimonthly. OCLC: 17270818. Can be found at: ARL, NAT REGISTER OF MICROFORM MASTERS, N.Y. PUB LIBR

 

     * Undergraduate students can request books and periodicals from UIS and UIUC (they will be sent to the UIC library). Undergrads can check out books BUT NOT periodicals in person at UIS and UIUC.

 

References Books that Might Prove Helpful

 

Hoskins, Janina W. The USSR and East Central and Southeastern Europe : periodicals in Western languages.Washington : Library of Congress  ISBN: 0844403024

Can be found at: UIC Main Reference/2d fl (Non-Circulating)  Z2483 .H63 1979

 

Smits, Rudolf. Half a century of Soviet serials, 1917-1968; a bibliography and union list of serials published in the USSR, Washington, Library of Congress;Notes: A successor to Serial publications of the Soviet Union, 1939-1951, entered under U.S. Library of Congress. Reference Dept.; and Serial publications of the Soviet Union, 1939-1957, entered under U.S. Library of Congress. Can be found at: UIC Main Reference/2d fl (Non-Circulating)  Z6956.R9 S58. & Science/3500 SES Storage Z6956.R9 S58.

 

Periodicals on Russian History

 

In English (primary)

 

The following are located at UIC:

 

Moscow News. Shelved by title in Reserve Reading Room; Weekly; Library retains last six months only

 

Russian Life. Shelved by call number: DK1 .U672; Bimonthly; Library has: v.36 (1993)- v.43: no.1-6, (2000: jan/feb-nov/dec)

 

Soviet Russia Pictorial - (see duplicate entry below at University of Chicago); (a.k.a. Soviet Russia - June 1919-Dec. 1922). Shelved in main book stacks: DK266.A2 S7

Weekly, 1919-May 1921; Semimonthly, Feb.-Dec. 1922; Monthly, July 1921-Jan. 1922, 1923-24; Library has: v.1 (June 7-Dec. 27, 1919)

 

Soviet Russia Today. (found in library warehouse - followed by New World Review -also in warehouse, followed by Update USSR - Shelved by title); Shelved by call number: DK266.A2 N46; Monthly; Library has: v.1 (1932)-v.18 (1951)

 

 

The following are located at UIUC:

 

Note: Undergraduate students can request books and periodicals from UIS and UIUC (they will be sent to the UIC library). Undergrads can check out books BUT NOT periodicals in person at UIS and UIUC.

Bulletin of the Russian Information Bureau in the US. New York; UIUC Main Stacks. Call Number: 947 R93B; Library has: No.1-44 (1920-1921) c.1

 

Moscow News. Moscow, Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; Publ. History: Issue no. 1 published Jan. 4, 1956; UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: FILM 057.1 MOSN; Library has:

 

The Russian Review : a monthly magazine devoted to Russian life, literature, and art.

New York : Russian Review publishing co.; Quarterly, July 1917-Apr. 1918. - Publ. History: v. 1-4, no. 1; Feb 1916-Apr. 1918. UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 905 RUS

Library has: v.1 F-JE (1916) - v.3-4 (1917-1918)

 

The Russian Review. Stanford, Calif., Russina Review, Inc. Quarterly  after 1949 -  Pub. History: Vol 1. (Nov. 1941); UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 905 RUSS

Library has: v.1-2 (1941-1943) - current.

 

Soviet life. Washington, D.C. : Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA; Monthly - Publ. History: [100] (Jan. 1965)-no. 423 (Dec. 1991).

UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 057 US; Library has: v.1-15 (1957) - v.418-423 JY-D (1991).

 

Soviet Studies. Abingdon, Oxfordshitre, UK, etc., Carfax Pub Co.,etc.; Frequency: 6 times a year - Pub. History: Vol 1 - 44 (June 1949 - 1992); UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 905 SOVS; Library has: v.1-2 (1949-1951) - v.44: 4-6 (1992)

 

 

The following can be found at the various locations listed:

 

New Times. Moscow : Newspaper “Trud,” -1992  - (Continued by:  New Times International); Indiana University (Bloomington) Main Library Research Coll. Stacks Call Number: D410.N942; Library has: (1945-1992  Holdings incomplete)  1945,no.1-1981,no.52; 1982,no.14- 1984,no.32; 1984, no.34-1984,no.44; 1984,no.46-1988,no.40; 1988, no.42- 1989,no.37; 1989,no.39-1990,no.49; 1990, no.51-1990,no.52; 1991,no.5-

1991,no.7; 1991,no.9-  1992,no.5; 1992,no.7-1992,no.12; 1992,no.14-15. 

 

Soviet Russia Pictorial (a.k.a. Soviet Russia - June 1919-Dec. 1922); New York : Russian Soviet Government Bureau. Frequency: Weekly, June 7, 1919-May 1921; Monthly, July 1921-Jan. 1922 ; Semimonthly, Feb. 1922-Dec. 1922; Monthly, Jan. 1923-Oct. 1924

University of Chicago Regenstein Stacks; Call Number: DK265.A2S7. Library has: v.1-9 (1919-1924).

 

In English (secondary)

 

The following are located at UIC:

 

American Slavic and East European Review. Shelved by call number: D377.A1 A5

Quarterly. Library has: v.1 (1941)-v.19 (1960)

 

History and theory. Shelved by title. Irregularly published; Library has: v.1 (1960/1961)-v.10 (1971)

 

Journal of Social History. Shelved by title. Quarterly; Library has: v.1 (1967)-current

 

Journal of Urban History. Shelved by title. Quarterly, 1974-1994; Bimonthly, 1995-currentLibrary has: v.1 (1974)-current

 

Politics and Society. Shelved by title. Quarterly. Library has: v.1 (1970)- v.28: no.1-4 (2000: mar-dec)

 

Radical History Review. Shelved by call number: HX1 .R33.Quarterly.Library has: v.52 (1992)- v.78 (2001: winter)

 

Russian Review. Shelved by title. Semiannual, 1941-48, Quarterly, 1949-on

Library has: v.1 (1941)-v.27 (1968), v.57: no.1 (1998: Jan.)-current

 

Slavic Review. Shelved by call number: D377.A1 A5. Quarterly; Library has: v.20 (1961)-current.

 

Slavonic and East European Review. Shelved by title. 3 issues a year, 1922-July 1939; Annual, 1939/40-41; Semiannual, Mar. 1943-on; Library has: v.1-41 (1922-63), 43 (1964)-current

 

 

The following are located at UIUC:

 

Canadian-American Slavic Studies. (Revue canadienne-américaine d’études slaves.)

Pittsburgh, Pa. University Center for International Studies; Quarterly - Publ. History: v. 6- spring 1972. UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 914.705 CAN; Library has: v.1: 1-2 (1967) - v.33 (1999).

 

The Russian Review (post 1960). Stanford, Calif., Russina Review, Inc. Quarterly  after 1949 -  Pub. History: Vol 1. (Nov. 1941); UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 905 RUSS. Library has: v.1-2 (1941-1943) - current.

 

Soviet Studies (post 1960). Abingdon, Oxfordshitre, UK, etc., Carfax Pub Co.,etc.

Frequency: 6 times a year - Pub. History: Vol 1 - 44 (June 1949 - 1992). UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 905 SOVS. Library has: v.1-2 (1949-1951) - v.44: 4-6 (1992).

 

 

In Other Western Languages

 

The following are located at UIC:

 

Cahiers du monde russe et sovietique. Shelved by title. Quarterly (irregularly published)

Library has: v.1 (1959)-v.34 (1993)

 

Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Shelved by title. Quarterly; Library has: v.1 (1936)-current.

 

Neue politische Literatur. Shelved by title. Monthly, 1956-64; Quarterly, 1965-84; 3 no. a year, 1985-on. Library has: v.6 (1961), v.8 (1963)-v.9 (1964), v.11 (1966)-v.20 (1975)

 

In Russian (primary)

 

 

The following are located at UIC:

 

Golos minuvshego. Shelved by title. Frequency Varies; Library has: v.1 (1913)-v. 4 (1926)

 

Katorga i ssylka. Shelved by title. Frequency Varies. Library has: no.50 (1929)-no.55 (1929), no.62 (1930)-no.67 (1930), no.80 (1931)-no. 85 (1931)

 

Novyi zhurnal. Shelved by title.Quarterly, though 1942-1977 Frequency of publication varies. Library has: no.6 (1943)-no.7 (1944), no.9 (1944)-no.10 (1945), no.12 (1946),

no.218-221 (2000)

 

 

In Russian (secondary)

 

 

The following are located at UIC:

 

Istoricheskii arkhiv. Shelved by title: Istoricheskii arkhiv. Bimonthly; Library has: 1955-1962.

 

Otechestvennaia istoriia. Previously known as Istoriia SSSR. Shelved by call number: DK1 .A3276; Six issues a year. Library has: 1992-1996, no.1-5 (1997), no.1-5 (1999), no.1-6 (2000).

 

Voprosy Istorii. Shelved by call number: D1 .V95. Monthly. Library has: 1945: Jan.-1945: January 1980-current.

 

Primary Source Collections

 

National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe: a selection of documents on events in Poland and Hungary, February-November, 1956.

Zinner, Paul E., ed. New York, Columbia University Press, 1956.UIC Main Book Stacks Call Number: DR48.5 .Z5. This volume contains translations of PRAVDA, TRYBUNA LUDU, and BORBA along with a few Polish Party documents. Kronstadt. by V.I. Lenin & Leon Trotsky. Barbara Mutnick, ed.,  (New York, 1979).UIC Main Book Stacks Call Number: DK265.8.K7 L3713 1979.