Guides to Russian Literature
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The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures byLocation: Mugar Reference X PG2940 .M6Publication Date: 1977
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A History of Russian Literature
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. -
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel
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Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PG3098.3 .C33 1998 ) and OnlinePublication Date: 1998Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. -
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry
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Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PG3041 .W328 2004 ) and OnlinePublication Date: 2004The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century up to the present day. -
Soviet Dissident Literature: a critical guide byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PG3026.U5 W64 1983 )Publication Date: 1983
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Fundamental Digital Library - Russian Literature & FolkloreFEB-web is a project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and online since July 2002. FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it. FEB-web makes the canon of Russian verbal art available free of charge to anyone with internet access.
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Russian National CorpusThis website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form.
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Internet Archive: Russian LiteratureThe Internet Archive's materials relating to Russian literature. Predominantly text, but also contains audio and images.
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BU Libraries Search This link opens in a new window
BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of research material provided by the library. Resources covered by the search includes books and eBooks, journals, scores and sheet music, video and audio recordings, and other physical and electronic items held by the library. Coverage encompasses materials relating to the prehistoric and antique world through to the present.
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American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies This link opens in a new window
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.
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Linguistics Collection This link opens in a new window
The Linguistics Collection is comprised of index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The collection includes the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), which abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. And Linguistics Database, which includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics including many titles indexed in LLBA.
Literary Biography
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Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
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Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biography In Context offers biographical information about historically significant figures as well as present-day newsmakers. It includes reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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SovLit.netCollection of texts, documents, and biographies by and about Soviet writers.
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Russian Writers and Soviet Society, 1917-1978 byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PG3022 .H5 1979 )Publication Date: 1979-08-01
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Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917
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Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PG3017 .K3513 1988 )Publication Date: 1988Translation of: Lexikon der russischen Literturab 1917, and of Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917, Ergänzungsband. Includes index. -
Reference Guide to Russian Literature
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Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PG2940 .R44 1998 )Publication Date: 1998"This guide provides informative essays and selective bibliographies on the main writers of Russian for students and general readers. Covering all of Russian literature, this handbook emphasizes 19th- and 20th-century authors." -
Dictionary of Russian Women Writers
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Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PG2997 .D53 1994 )Publication Date: 1994The first reference work in any language devoted to Russian women writers, this dictionary systematically covers, in detail, the lives of 448 women who wrote from the period of Catherine the Great to the present. -
Between Two Millstones, Book 1
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Location: Mugar Stacks PG3488.O4 Z4613 2018Publication Date: 2018Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. -
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: growing up in communist Russia
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Location: Mugar Stacks PG3485.E724 Z4613 2017Publication Date: 2017Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation--of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. -
The Bones of Berdichev: the Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman
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Location: Mugar Stacks PG3476.G7 Z67 1996Publication Date: 1996Chronicles the life of the Russian Jew and World War II correspondent for the Soviet Army who became a passionate critic of the new regime.
