Russian and Eurasian Studies Resources  

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Liladhar Pendse

Slavic Librarian

Princeton's Russian and Eurasian Studies collections cover a wide range of subjects and formats, from scholarly monographs through electronic data, and were developed over the past 50 years.  Today, the Russian and Eurasian Studies collections share a multidisciplinary character with area studies resources elsewhere at Princeton.

Princeton's Russian and Eurasian Studies collections number over 500,000 volumes.  The Library maintains many active serials in print and electronic formats (about 60% in languages of the region) and subscribes to about 1500 monographic series.  Research materials include many other formats, such as survey data and statistics in electronic and print formats, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, and archival materials.  Of the Eastern European holdings, about 50% are Russian, 15% Polish, 10% Czech and Slovak, 15% Ukrainian, 10% Other  (Belarussian and South Slavic-- Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian).

Princeton's holdings are strongest in Russian language and literature and émigré literature, closely followed by Russian history, Slavic linguistics, and politics for the whole geographic area.  Polish, Ukrainian, and Czech and Slovak materials are well represented.  Area language materials address a wide range of subjects from Siberian studies, Muslim regions of the Russian Federation, and women's studies (including an excellent collection of Russian women writers) to regional politics and environmental studies.

Slavic humanities and social science materials are part of Firestone Library.  There, a Russian Studies Reading room houses a core reference collection.  The General Humanities and Reference Room houses general encyclopedias and other reference materials, while most Slavic periodicals are in the general periodicals reading room (A-floor).  

Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is also the home of the Osip Mandelshtam archive.  Mandelshtam, one of the best and most beloved poets of 20th century Russia continues to be of interest to scholars and researchers worldwide.  The detailed finding aid which provides item-level description of manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials in the papers, as well as a history of the collection and how it came to Princeton can be found at the Manuscripts Division of the Princeton University Library.  The personal archive of Father George Florovsky is also part of Princeton's collection.  To learn more about the collections, contact the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

With these archival collections, currently published research materials in all formats, and solid historical collections, the Russian and Slavic Studies collections support the research and teaching needs of Princeton's interdisciplinary academic community.  With the needs of the entire academic community in mind-- undergraduate, graduate, faculty, and researcher-- the Slavic Bibliographer is committed to maintaining and developing a diverse and strong collection.

I am available for research consultations throughout the academic year.  If you would like to arrange for an individual consultation, please email me with a requested date and time, and a brief description of your research interest.

Acting Slavic Librarian, Rex Hatfield