Resources
The AWSS Links page intends to highlight some of the
available web sites rather than provide a comprehensive list.
Please feel free to consult the Slavic Studies Mega Sites for a
more comprehensive list of links.
If you would like to suggest a link, please e-mail
Cheri Wilson.
- ABSEES
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
- Central
Asian Studies Worldwide
Resources for the Study of Central Asia
- Central
Eurasia
- Cheri
C. Wilson's Professional Home Page
A gateway to Central Asian, Eastern European, and Slavic-related
subjects, covering resources, professional associations, Russian
history and culture, museums, philosophical thought, music, and
several other useful links.
- Directory
of Internet Sources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Friends
and Partners
- Internet
Resources for Russian Studies
Hokkaido University
- NYU's
Bobst Library Slavic Resources
Slavic Resources from Slavic Librarian Diana Greene.
- Post-Soviet
Study Resources on the Internet
courtesy of Ian Kallen
- REENIC
Comprehensive and searchable site. Hosted by The University of
Texas at Austin Russian and East European Network Information
Center. Information is broken down by geographic region, links
are organized by type (e.g., current news, databases, etc.).
- REESWeb
A comprehensive index of electronic resources on the Balkans,
the Baltic states, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central Europe,
the CIS, Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and
the former Soviet Union. The REESWeb is sponsored by the
Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University
of Pittsburgh, a National Resource Center for Russian and East
European Studies.
- Russian
Studies on the Web
Maintained by Roman Leibov,
we give a link here to the mirror site hosted at Swarthmore by
Sibelan Forrester (it's much more accessible in the U.S. than
the Estonian server site!). Contains hyperlinks to the homepages
of Russian/Slavic Departments around the World and also to the
homepages of more larger academic institutions containing the
information on the subject. Also includes Russian resources of
academic libraries, databases, HT editions and special projects.
- Russophilia
courtesy of Rita Bogna of Adelaide, South Australia
- Sher's Russian
Web
- Slavic-Eurasian
Studies Web
- Slavophilia
Slavic and East European Resources
- World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Russian History Index
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- WebMuseum
Network
Special exhibits and "famous Paintings." Select
the mirror site closest to you for faster access (sites are worldwide
- even Moscow)
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If you would like your home page added, please e-mail,
Cheri Wilson.
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- Alternative
Russian Dictionary
For the not-easily-offended, from Hans-Christian Holm. From here
you can easily find the Alternative Dictionary of your choice!
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- Albanian
World Wide Web Home Page
- Armenians
in Cyberspace
- Bosnia
Homepage at Caltech
- Bulgarian
Studies Organization
Non-profit scholarly organization which promotes the study of
and exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Bulgaria: language,
literature, culture, economics, history, etc.
- The
Bulgarian Universe
- Croatia: NONA
Multimedia Women's Center of Zagreb, Croatia
The NONA Multimedia Women's Center is a place of conversation,
creativity, and healing for women and children from Croatia and
Bosnia-Hercegovina who live in our city of Zagreb, the capital
of Croatia.
- Social
Science in Eastern Europe
A newsletter published at least four times per year in English
(up to and including 1999 there has been a German and English
edition published). Sign up for an electronic subscription by
sending an e-mail with
the subject, "subscribe".
- Social
Science Information Centre
Social science resources in Eastern Europe from the Department
of Information Transfer Eastern Europe at the
GESIS Branch Office Berlin.
- Karelia
Information in English, Finnish, or Russian
- Kyrgyzstan
FreeNet
- Global Lithuanian
Net
- Macedonian
Information Almanac
by Dr. George Mitrevski
- Silent
Echoes
Romanian web site
- Mat' Kurja
A Guide to Virtual Slovenia
- Yugoslavia: The
Book of Home
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- Artemis
Guide to Women's Studies in the U.S.
- Femina Web Search
for Women (Sites for, by and about women)
The first and largest search directory of female friendly sites
on the World Wide Web
- Gender/Women's
Studies Centers in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- Map of
Women's/Gender Studies Association of Countries in Transition
Includes links to women's/gender studies centers (both independent
and university-based) in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union
- Russian
Feminism Resources/Rossiiskii feminizm
A directory of resources about Russian women, women's studies,
and the women's movement in Russia, created by Elena Leonoff in
Tver, Russia
- Women
in Politics: An International Perspective
By Dr. Jill Bystydzienski,
currently director of the Women's Studies Program at Iowa State
University
- Women's/Gender
Studies Association of Countries in Transition
- Women's
Resource Project (no longer updated)
Formerly maintained by Melinda Brown and Cheryl Friedman at UNC,
Chapel Hill.
- Women's
Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Center
Links to more than 650 women's studies (including "gender
studies") programs, departments, and research centers around
the world that have web sites. Maintained for the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County by Dr.
Joan Korenman, Director of the Center
for Women & Information Technology
- Women's
Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
A selective, annotated, highly acclaimed
listing of web sites containing resources and information about
women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of
particular use to an academic women's studies program
Maintained for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County by
Dr. Joan Korenman, Director
of the Center for Women &
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The following links may provide some insight into current job trends
or may stir up some new ideas for your own career path.
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- Ab imperio
Theory and History of Nationalities and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet
Realm
- Canadian
Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes
An interdisciplinary journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe
published for the Canadian Association of Slavists/Association
canadienne des slavistes
- Central
Asia-Caucasus Analyst
A publication of The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of The Johns
Hopkins University-The Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies
- East
European Constitutional Review
A quarterly published by New York University Law School and
Central European University
- Identities:
Journal of Politics, Gender, and Culture
- Jahrbücher
für Geschichte Osteuropas
The Yearbook for the History of Eastern Europe
- Kritika:
Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
A journal dedicated to critical inquiry into the history of Russia
and Eurasia. Intended to continue the tradition established by
an earlier journal, Kritika, A Review of Current Soviet Books
on Russian History, published at Harvard University from 1964
to 1984
- Mezhdunarodnyi
istoricheskii zhurnal [International Journal of History]
A Russian-language journal
- Mir
istorii [World of History]
A Russian-language electronic journal
- Rossiiane
v Azii [Russians in Asia]
A Russian-language literary and historical annual devoted to the
history, experiences, and activities of subjects of the Russian
Empire who lived in various countries of Asia, mainly in China,
Japan, Korea and Mongolia in the 19th and early 20th centuries,
and of nearly half a million emigres from Russia who settled in
Asian countries after the Revolution of 1917
- Russian
Review
An American quarterly devoted to Russia past and present
- Slavic
Review
American quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies.
The journal of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies [AAASS]
- Slavic
and East European Journal
A quarterly published by the American Association of Teachers
of Slavic and East European Languages
- Slovo
An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, Eurasian and East
European affairs published by postgraduates of the School of Slavonic
and East European Studies.
- Social
Science in Eastern Europe
A newsletter published at least four times per year in English
[up to and including 1999 there has been a German and English
edition published]. Sign up for an electronic subscription by
sending an e-mail with
the subject, "subscribe".
- Solanus
International journal of Russian and East European bibliographic,
library and publishing studies
- Toronto
Slavic Quarterly
Academic electronic journal in Slavic Studies
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- American
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
(ABSEES)
ABSEES covers North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia,
and the former Soviet Union.
- ArcheoBiblioBase:
Archives in Russia
- ARIADNE
In German; contains records (mostly articles) from international
and Austrian women's studies literature (approx. 10,000) from
the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
- Bobst Library at New York University (Slavic
Studies Resources)
- The British Library (The
Slavonic and East European Collections)
- Center for
Research Libraries
- European
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)
EBSEES covers European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia,
and the former Soviet Union, namely materials published in Austria,
Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
and the United Kingdom.
- Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia
istoricheskaia biblioteka Rossii (State Public Historical
Library of Russia) [Moscow]
- Helsinki
University Library (The National Library of Finland)
- HYTELNET
Offers links to world library catalogues, arranged geographically
and by vendor. Help files for library catalogues are also available.
- Library of Congress (Czech
and Slovak Collections)
- Library of Congress (Hungarian
Collections)
- Library of Congress (Polish
Collections)
- Library of Congress (Romanian
Collections)
- Library of Congress (Russian
Collections)
- Library of Congress (South
Slavic Collections)
- Library of Congress (Ukrainian
Collections)
- New York Public Library (Slavic
and Baltic Division)
- Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia
biblioteka (Russian State Library) [Moscow]
- Rossiiskaia natsional'naia
biblioteka (National Library of Russia) [Saint Petersburg]
- RussGUS:
Regionalwissenschaftliche Datenbank für den Nachweis von Literatur
mit Bezug auf Russland, die UdSSR und ihre Nachfolgestaaten
RussGUS: Database of German-Language Materials on Russia and the
Former Soviet Union
- Russian
Courier: Russian State Library Document Supply and Information
Research Services (Russkii kur'er:
Tsentr elektronnoi dostavki dokumentov Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi
biblioteki)
- Stanford University Libraries (Slavic
and East European Collections)
- University of California at Berkeley Library (Slavic
and East European Resources)
- University of Chicago Library (Slavic
and East European Resources)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Slavic
and East European Library)
- University of Michigan Graduate Library (Slavic
and East European Division)
- University of Minnesota Library (Russian
and Central European Area Studies)
- University of Pittsburgh Library (Russian
and East European Subject Guide)
- University of Texas-Austin (Russian
and East European Network Information Center) (REENIC)
- University of Washington University Libraries (Russian,
East European, and Central Asian Studies) (REECAS) (Slavic
and East European Section)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries (Russian,
East European, and Central Asian Collections) (REECA Web)
- Virginia Tech University (Slavic,
East European, and Former USSR Resources)
- The
World Wide Web Virtual Library: REESWeb (Russian and East
European Internet Resources)
- Yale University (Slavic
and East European Collections)
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- EKATERINA-L
A listserv devoted to scholarly consultation about the life and
times and impact of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-96).
We welcome participation from scholars in many fields and accept
contributions in English as well as Catherine's main modern Western
languages: Russian, German, and French.
- FeminaNet
A list where you can ask other women online for help finding sites
for your personal requests (from health questions to consumer
information), academic research (statistics, biographies, current
issues), and work related needs (profiles of companies, networking
and technology issues).
- Gender-Related
Electronic Forums
An annotated, frequently-updated, award-winning
listing of publicly-accessible e-mail discussion forums (also
known as "lists" or "listservs") related to
women or to women-focused gender issues. Maintained for the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County by Dr.
Joan Korenman, Director of the Center
for Women & Information Technology
- HABSBURG
Discussion Network
Deals with the culture and history of the Habsburg Monarchy and
its successor states in central Europe from 1500 to the present.
- H-EarlySlavic
Discussion Network
A forum for the discussion of Slavic history, literature, and
culture before 1725. It is focused primarily on East Slavic (Russian,
Ukrainian, Belorussian) regions, though West and South Slavic
areas will also be considered. H-EarlySlavic is a scholarly list:
it is aimed at professional scholars and their students. The languages
of the list are Belorussian, English, French, German, Russian,
and Ukrainian.
- H-RUSSIA
Discussion Network
Encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history
and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching
aids.
- PraxNex
- Praxis Nexus: Feminist Activism
A discussion list devoted to issues and concerns feminists have
about 'doing' feminism. It also is a network for the circulation
of information regarding feminist activism and praxis.
- To join, please send a message to listserv@uvvm.uvic.ca
with a message in the body of the text "sub praxnex Your
Name".
- RUSSTHEA-L
Lurana O'Malley, University of Hawaii, Manoa, moderates an
e-mail discussion list on Russian and East European Theatre and
Drama.
To subscribe, send an email message to LISTPROC@HAWAII.EDU.
The message itself should contain one line:
SUBSCRIBE RUSSTHEA-L <first name>
<last name>
- SEELANGS
(Slavic and East European Languages and Literature List)
An academic discussion list aimed primarily at teachers and students
of Russian and other Slavic and East European languages and literature.
- WISE-L
Listserv
WISE-L is the discussion list of the European women's studies
network, Women's International Studies Europe (WISE). WISE, a
European feminist studies organization, seeks to promote feminist
critiques of knowledge, and support practices and research which
will improve the quality of women's lives.
WISE-L is a list for all practitioners of women's studies: teachers,
students, scholars, writers, administrators, activists, etc..
It is a forum for information on research projects, funding sources,
fellowships, job openings, conferences, calls for papers, teaching
methods, course syllabi, useful texts, bibliographies, student
and staff exchanges, women's studies program development, European
or national policy issues, and political and theoretical debates
concerning women's studies.
WISE is a European network, open to all women doing women's studies
in Europe or on European topics. While we hope women from around
the globe will join us, European context(s) should offer the framework
for our discussions.
Search the WISE-L listserv archives.
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Google Groups
contains the entire archive of Usenet discussion groups dating back
to 1981. Google's search feature enables users to access this wealth
of information with the speed and efficiency of a Google web search,
providing relevant results from a database containing more than
700 million posts. A list of newsgroups for Eastern Europe
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- SAPE
An informational site about the organization, "SAPE"
(formerly called "The Soviet-American Penfriend Exchange").
Our primary goal is to find postal mail ("snail-mail")
penfriends for more than 100,000 people in the Baltics and former
Soviet Union who have written to us. Contact them via snail
mail at: P.O. Box 319, Monroe, CT 06468-0319 USA or e-mail.
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- Academic
International Press
- Ardis Publishers
Ardis has been acquired by Overlook Press of New York City. As
of April 1, 2002, Overlook owns the Ardis titles in English, as
well as the Ardis web site. Orders will continue to be processed
on the web as before, and the warehouse address and phone numbers
remain the same.
- All books concerning the teaching of Russian language
have been taken over by Casa Dana Books. See the RussianAlive!
web site for information.
- Cambridge University
Press
- Columbia
University Press
- Cornell
University Press
- East View Publications
- Greenwood Publishing
Group
- Harvard University
Press
- IDC Publishers
- Indiana
University Press
- Kamkin Bookstore
- MIPP International,
Inc.
- Oxford University
Press
- Oriental Research Partners
- Panorama of Russia
- rbcmp3.com
- Routledge Online
- RusKniga.com
- Russia
Online, Inc.
- Russian
Press Service, Inc.
- Russian
Story
- Slavic
and East European Book Sources
- Thornton's
of Oxford Ltd
- Women in Translation
Women in Translation (WIT), Barbara Wilson Founder-President,
is a nonprofit publishing company that puts out two to three translations
a year. It shares office space with Seal Press: for submission
guidelines or queries about submitting a manuscript, either e-mail
Barbara Wilson or send
a SASE to 3131 Western Ave., Ste 4110, Seattle WA 98121-1041.
- Yale University
Press
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- AAASS
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- AATSEEL
The American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages. Job listings, information about language study and
professional activity.
- American Latvian
Association
The American Latvian community's national representative organization
founded in 1951 by Latvian World War II refugees escaping Soviet
occupation of their homeland. A non-profit, tax exempt educational
and cultural organization.
- ALTA
(American Literary Translators Association)
The ALTA national offices are located at the Center for Translation
Studies. The organization was founded in 1978 to provide essential
services to literary translators from all languages and to create
a professional forum for the exchange of ideas on the art and
craft of translation. Through annual conferences, newsletters,
collaboration with other professional organizations and lobbying
efforts, ALTA works to enhance the status of literary translation
and to improve the market for the publication of works in English
translation. Contact the ALTA
office.
- British Association
for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
An association to advance education for the public benefit in
the United Kingdom in the humanities and the social sciences as
they relate to the former Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern
Europe
- Bulgarian Studies
Organization
A non-profit scholarly organization which promotes the study of
and exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Bulgaria and Bulgarians:
language, literature, culture, history, politics, economics and
international relations.
- Canadian
Association of Slavists-Association canadienne des slavistes
(CAS)
An organization of teachers and scholars in the field of Slavic
and related studies in Canada for the purpose of improving and
advancing such studies
- Central
Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
A private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization
of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia,
and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies.
We define the Central Eurasian region broadly to include Turkic,
Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples. Geographically,
Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea region, the Crimea,
and the Caucasus in the west, through the Middle Volga region,
Central Asia and Afghanistan, and on to Siberia, Mongolia and
Tibet in the east.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Osteuropakunde e.V. (DGO)
The largest German-speaking scientific organization for the Central
and East European area. It is the only institution in Germany
that organizes the interdisciplinary discourse nationally and
internationally. Since 1913 the DGO serves as a forum of repute
for the dialogue between east and west and the inquiry in and
discussion of the political, economic and cultural developments
in Eastern Europe.
- Early
Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)
A scholarly, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering closer
worldwide communication among scholars interested in pre-eighteenth
century Slavic studies; and to promoting the dissemination of
scholarly information on early Slavic studies through the organization
of meetings and conferences and through the Association's newsletter
- International Committee
of the Red Cross
- International Women's
Health Coalition (IWHC)
IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs,
and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of
girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and countries in postsocialist transition.
- Network of East-West
Women (NEWW)
NEWW's mission is to empower women and girls throughout the East
(Central and Eastern Europe, and NIS and the Russian Federation)
and the West by dialogue, networking, campaigns, and educational
and informational exchanges.
- Russian
Social Sciences and Humanities Network (RSSH)
The main purpose of this network is to provide help to researchers
and teachers working in the fields of social and humanitarian
science, through the use of electronic communications and new
information technologies.
- Scottish
Society for Russian and East European Studies (SSREES)
Founded in 1994 and holds its annual conference each October in
Glasgow. Membership is not limited to those working or researching
in Scotland, rather it refers to the location of the Society and
its conferences.
- Slavic
and East European Folklore Association (SEEFA)
A non-profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge
among scholars interested in Slavic and East European folklore.
It seeks to promote instruction, to organize panels at national
and international conferences, to encourage the preparation of
teaching materials and translations, and to foster exchanges,
summer programs, and research in Slavic and East European Folklore
and related fields such as anthropology, ethnic studies, history,
literature, and musicology.
- Social Science Research
Council
An independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit international
organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the
world and supports research, education and scholarly exchange
on every continent
- Society
for Slovene Studies
A scholarly, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering closer
communication among scholars interested in Slovene studies; and
to promoting the dissemination of scholarly information on Slovene
studies through the organization of meetings and conferences,
and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication
- Society
for the Study of Women Philosophers
Membership is $10/calendar year. Contact Cecile Tougas, SSWP Convener,
262 Connecticut Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307-2212.
- Woman
and Earth
An organization Tatyana Mamonova founded in 1979
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- Friends
& Partners
Jointly developed by citizens of the US and Russia to promote
better understanding between the two countries, this site offers
probably the most comprehensive listing of Russian cultural resources
on the Web. Can be viewed either in English or in Russian (KOI-8).
- Little Russia
One of the most comprehensive sites to Russian cultural resources
on the Web, including sections devoted to Russian jokes and real-time
chat rooms.
- rol.ru
Offers links to Russian news, science & technology, shops
& malls, travel, business, legislation, family, recreation,
weather, computers, government, arts & culture, and other
links of interest.
- Russia on
the Net
Comprehensive and easy-to-navigate directory of Russian Internet
resources.
- Russian
Alphabet in Russian Sign Language
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