{"title":"Slavic and East European Collections at the University of Toronto Library: From the Great Fire to the Deep Freeze, 1890−1948","authors":"Ksenya Kiebuzinski","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2020.1756725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the history of the Slavic and East European collection at the University of Toronto Libraries from the great fire of 1890 to the beginning of the Cold War. The author contextualizes the history in relation to the development of Russian studies at the University, and the creation of a formal program of Slavic studies in 1949. Particular emphasis is placed on gifts and bequests of library material.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756725","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44987200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Emigration as Documented in the Archives of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia","authors":"N. Ermakova","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2020.1756815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756815","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Among the extensive archives of the Western American Diocese of the ROCOR (over 2,000 document files), of greatest historical value are undoubtedly the archives of St. John (Maximovich) and of Archbishop Tikhon (Troitskii), the archives of the Russian spiritual mission in China, the archives from the Archbishops and Ecumenical Councils of the ROCOR, and the archives of the oldest clerics and parishes of the ROCOR. Also, the correspondence and labors of Bishop Nektarii (Kontsevich) and Archbishop Antonii (Medvedev) are of considerable significance for historians. In archives is hidden the potential for many research projects, for historians and linguists alike. Some documents have been researched, translated and published in the Diocesan Russian–English magazine, Spiritual Spring Journal. However, the majority of these unique materials are waiting for its researchers.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756815","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49643152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920): Daughter of Emperor Alexander II","authors":"Hélène Kolosovich","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2020.1756753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756753","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article describes the life of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920) through the correspondence with her parents: the Emperor of Russia Alexander II, the Empress and close friends. The accent is on Grand Duchess’s life in Great Britain after her marriage in 1874 to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900), second son of the Queen Victoria but also about her life in the Duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after 1893 with frequent visits to her family in Russia. The letters give us important information about the Grand Duchess’s life, her children, and her social contacts with political and diplomatic circles of the period.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48709536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memory of the Czar: A Review of the Memoirs of Witnesses and Contemporaries of Emperor Nicholas II","authors":"G. Epifanova","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2020.1756799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article surveys the collection devoted to the memory of Emperor Nicholas II held at the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco. The author describes the cataloged materials of a unique collection of materials passed on to the Museum by Russian emigrants of the first and second waves, many of whom worked to preserve the memory of Russia’s last Sovereign and also made a significant contribution to the creation of the Museum and its archival collections.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756799","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44139181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soviet Rock Collection and International Counterculture Archive at the Global Resources Center of the George Washington University Libraries","authors":"M. Yoffe","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2020.1756943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This memoir is my personal story about how I created and came to curate on the International Counterculture Archive collection, which is held in the Global Resources Center of the George Washington University’s (GWU) Gelman library. The first person narrative relates my first encounters with Soviet rock culture and describes how I turned my initial interest into a Ph.D. dissertation on the subculture of Soviet hippies and traditions of Soviet rock music, which subsequently led to my later work as a librarian and curator. I tell the story of my initial encounters with the members of Soviet/Russian rock music subculture and other countercultural personalities and activists during my first trip to Moscow in 1993 to collect samples of Soviet rock music recordings and rock music zines for the European Division of the Library of Congress. During this formative trip I met with a number of counterculture producers and collectors who were instrumental in helping me build the International Counterculture Archive. Upon leaving the Library of Congress, I continued collecting Soviet/Russian countercultural materials on behalf of the Global Resources Center of GWU’s Gelman Library. I talk about the process of creating the Archive at Gelman library, about bureaucratic and financial aspects of this work, and about my many acquisition trips to Moscow, former Soviet republics, and East Central Europe. Much of the narrative centers on my work with Russian collectors and content producers and describes the type of materials that are included in the collection. I also describe how I built the collection of historical Soviet/Russian rock music recordings, focusing on the phenomenon of Soviet/Russian rock music zines and the history of the unique zine collection within the International Counterculture Archive.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2020.1756943","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45013843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perpetual Motion: Library of Congress Interaction with Russia, 1941-2015","authors":"Harold M. Leich","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2019.1694368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694368","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on three important Library of Congress staff members from the period 1941–2015 to describe the library’s interaction with Russia and the Soviet Union and the buildup of the library’s Russian and Soviet collections.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49292407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Local Literature on Foreign Libraries: A Bibliographic Evaluation of the Modern Greek Literary Generation of Last Decade","authors":"D. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2019.1694371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a bibliographic survey relating to the number of titles in Modern Greek fiction owned by libraries worldwide. Using extracted metadata, mainly via the OCLC WorldCat database and supplemented with records via other popular catalog aggregators (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog), the most popular 100 titles of the last decade (2008–2018) are ranked by number relative to total holding libraries. Demographic factors, including age and gender, are considered in order to define particular characteristics of the current generation of Greek writers. A special part of the article is devoted to libraries in the US and Australia that have developed the largest library collections of non-translated, Modern Greek fiction titles.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43906414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Idea of the Comprehensive Research Collection, the Perils of “Linguistic Impoverishment,” and Print Publications in the Turkic Languages of the North Caucasus, 1806-2017 (Part III)","authors":"Kit Condill","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2019.1694376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694376","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the advent of printing in the Turkic languages of the North Caucasus in 1806, the Kumyks, Karachais, Balkars, Nogais, Daghestani Azeris, and Trukhmen have created a rich body of published materials, one that is well worth the attention of Western scholars and librarians. Along with publications by other numerically small peoples, however, these materials suffer from serious neglect. What is lost when research library collections focus only on “major” languages (and/or only on those languages their own current faculty and students can read)? Do librarians at large research libraries have a responsibility to redress imbalances of this type, and what are the practical obstacles to doing so? This article (Part III of three) discusses steps that libraries and scholars can take to improve this situation, surveys the North Caucasus Turkic Web environment, considers the problematic role of the Russian language, and emphasizes the urgency of collecting and preserving this category of material and encouraging its use in contemporary scholarship. Part I of this article appeared in volume 18, nos. 3–4 of Slavic & East European Information Resources and Part II appeared in volume 19, nos. 1–2.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694376","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48692787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Istoricheskie raiony Peterburga ot A do IA [The Historical Neighborhoods of Saint Petersburg]","authors":"Lana Soglasnova","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2019.1694379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46974563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"České a Slovenské Fotografické Publikace, 1918–1989 [Czech and Slovak Photo Publications, 1918–1989]","authors":"Bogdan Horbal","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2019.1694377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15228886.2019.1694377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43290019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}