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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 […]

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Sovinformburo Photograph Collection digitized

[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, […]

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 […]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

Soviet history: archival resources at Harvard university library and archives

  The new Harvard Library online LibGuide Soviet history: archival resources at Harvard university library and archives is now published. This guide contains a list of Harvard-owned archival materials documenting the history of the Soviet Union. It is arranged chronologically and by topic/provenance. The guide brings together primary sources that vary in scope and format. Many materials […]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

Collection spotlight: Teatr.doc plays (e-book)

  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 […]

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Ogonek Digital Archive

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 […]

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Early Russian cinema online

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 […]

Friday, September 8th, 2017

The Russian Revolution: Actors and Witnesses in Harvard Library Collections

    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 […]

Friday, September 1st, 2017

Russian Old Believer books online

  [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 […]

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

Krasnyi arkhiv digital archive

    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 […]