[Soviet Information Bureau photograph collection] HOLLIS # 990088625770203941 The Davis Center Collection at Fung Library has digitized its Soviet Information Bureau Photograph Collection. Commissioned by the propaganda arm of the Soviet state to document the country’s reconstruction following World War II, these nearly 5,800 black-and-white photographs provide an extensive visual record of daily life, culture, […]
In addition to tried-and-true traditional formats (both physical and digital), Slavic collection at Harvard owns items that are unusual, one-of-a-kind or simply rare. Please take a look at some of our most unusual recent new additions. Nashi v Solsberi : nastolʹnai︠a︡ igra Moskva : Tipografii︠a︡ Prima / (Igrolend. Nastolʹnye igry), 2018 Nashi v Solsberi (Our people […]
P’esy : sbornik vazhnykh dlia nas tekstov za vse 14 let teatra / teatr.doc ; [Elena Isaeva and 16 others]. [Moscow, Russia : publisher not identified], 2016. HOLLIS # 014793077 Harvard Library owns a unique e-book containing a collection of plays written for the Moscow Teatr.doc theater. This small independent theater was founded in […]
Ogonek digital archive (DA-OGN) Minneapolis, MN : East View Information Services Harvard Library users now have access to the digital archive of Ogonek, a long-running illustrated weekly from Russia. Ogonek has been published continuously since 1923, in the tradition of the eponymous pre-revolutionary magazine published in 1899-1918. In the Soviet years its run reached millions of […]
Early Russian cinema online [Leiden] : IDC Publishers : Brill HOLLIS # 15042874 We are happy to announce the arrival of the Early Russian cinema online, an electronic archive of 57 Russian film periodicals from 1907-1918. The collection includes both “serious” and more popular titles produced by the major Russian film studios, film distributors and […]
September 6 – December 21, Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library To mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution, Houghton Library in collaboration with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Slavic Division at Widener Library presents an exhibition showcasing original documents from the period, assembled from its own holdings as […]
[Kanonnik”]. [Russia : publisher not identified], 7159 [i.e. 1651]. HOLLIS # 13359988 Skazanīe o volʹnom stradanīi gospoda nashego Iisusa Khrista. [place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, between 1800 and 1899] HOLLIS # 13359989 Miesiats mart, imia angela. [Russia : publisher not identified, between 1800 and 1899?] 464 pages ; 37 cm […]
Krasnyi Arkhiv digital archive Minneapolis, MN : East View Information Services HOLLIS # 6918745 Harvard ID-holders now have access to another online primary source archive: Krasnyi arkhiv digital archive. Krasnyi arkhiv was a scholarly historical journal published in Moscow in 1922-1941 by the Central Archive and later by the Central Archival Administration of […]
Zavod “Diafoto“ : Reki i ozera SSSR : seriia 585, Sel’skoe khoziaistvo SSSR : seriia 98 The Davis Center Collection at Fung Library is pleased to announce the digitization of two rare glass slide collections dating from the Stalin era. Series 98. Agriculture of the U.S.S.R. (1940) consists of 43 sequentially numbered images […]
The Widener library has a unique collection of over 1500 posters from different Slavic countries (specifically Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Soviet Union and Ukraine). The collection dates from the beginning of the last quarter of the 20th century until the present. Despite the regional, cultural and stylistic differences, there is […]