Database of scholarly books and articles related to literature, language, linguistics, film, theater and folklore. Includes scholarship from 1926 to the present.
ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Offers a bibliography of American titles in Slavic and Eastern European Studies. Currently covers 1990-present.
Abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present.
Dictionairies
Oxford Dictionaries | Russian
Offers bilingual translations from the Oxford Russian Dictionary, plus tools and resources.
Historical collections
"Iskusstvo kino" digital archive
Leading journal of Russian cinema critics. Publishes reviews of contemporary Russian and foreign movies, articles on history and theory of Russian and world cinema as well as general essays on Russian culture and arts. Coverage includes the preceding titles "Proletarskoe kino" and "Sovetskoe kino" and goes back to 1931.
Soviet cinema online : archival documents from RGALI, 1923-1935
The archive contains materials providing information on the activities of the Soviet film company Sovkino and its relations with various other companies in the film industry, both in the Soviet Union and abroad, between 1923 and 1935.
Cult of body
This collection comprises materials on sports and physical culture in Russia from 1891 to 1919. Sports provided opportunities for transitions from tradition to modernity: athletic competition broke down class barriers, brought women into public spaces, and encouraged new modes of behavior and self-presentation.