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Friday, August 20th, 2021

Video appeals to the President of Russia web archive

Video appeals to the President of Russia web archive / collected by: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. HOLLLIS # 99155709117603941 The source collection (Zotero library) Video appeals to the President of Russia Web Archive is now available for research. This is a collection of online videos created as direct appeals to Vladimir Putin by Russian citizens as […]

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Collection spotlight: unusual formats

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 […]

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

Slavic Poster Collection

    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 […]

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Soviet ephemera, 1976-1978

  Soviet ephemera, 1976-1978. HOLLIS # 014148652 Introducing another ephemera collection that has been made available recently in both physical and digitized form. This small collection contains 3 groups of documents: materials produced in connection with the 89th anniversary of a 1887 students’ political meeting (“Leninskai͡a skhodka”) at the Kazan university (1976), a book censor’s […]

Monday, April 11th, 2016

Russian ephemera (late 1980s-1990s) digitization project

            Russian ephemera collection (late 1980s-1990s) is a collection of materials and artifacts related to various political events, movements, parties and personalities that were part of the political life in the former Soviet Union and Russia between 1987 and 1999. This was a vibrant and very important period in the history […]