History 408A: Senior Seminar: War and Society in Eastern Europe

Sources

• Reference Works
• Books: UM Libraries
• Books: Other Libraries
• Scholarly Journal Articles and Related Publications
• Online Sources

Sources

Reference Works

ONLINE

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  Contains the full-text of the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica (plus thousands of additional articles and images not available in the print set); Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged; and the Britannica Book of the Year. EB Online also features a searchable Internet directory including over 130,000 links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors
• Encyclopaedia Judaica
  More than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• VBIC
  This site include links to Internet resources with substantial free offerings and fee-based commercial services that are available to University of Maryland community. Although this is a business database, it contains considerable important information on countries of the world, including, for example, CIA -- The World Factbook .

  IN PRINT

• Richard Frucht, ed., Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe : from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism., 2000 : McKeldin reference DJK6 .E53 2000
• Barbara P. McCrea, Jack C. Plano, George Klein., The Soviet and East European political dictionary, 1984: McKeldin reference DJK6 .M33 1984
• Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack, Where once we walked : a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the holocaust 1991 : McKeldin Stacks DS135.E83 M65 1991
• Israel Gutman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 1990 : McKeldin reference D804.3 .E53 1990
• Piotr Eberhardt, Ethnic groups and population changes in twentieth-century Central-Eastern Europe : history, data, analysis 2003 : McKeldin reference HB3582.7.A3 E2313 2003
• Alan Day, Roger East and Richard Thomas, Political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe 2002: McKeldin reference HC244 .P66 2002
• Laszlo M. Alfoldi, World War II, 1939-1945 : the Eastern and Balkan fronts, the Axis forces in Europe 1978 : McKeldin reference D743 .A6
• George J. Lerski, Historical dictionary of Poland, 966-1945 1996 : McKeldin reference DK4123 .L47 1996

• Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi, A biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms : Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries 2006: McKeldin reference HQ1590.7.Z75 A336 2006
• Juliusz Stroynowski, ed., Who is who in the Socialist countries of Europe : a biographical encyclopedia of more than 12,600 leading personalities in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia 1989 : McKeldin reference CT1195.2 .W6 1989

• Mary Zirin, ed., Women & gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia : a comprehensive bibliography , 2007: McKeldin reference HQ1590.7 .W66 2007
• Murlin Croucher, Slavic studies : a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks 1993 : McKeldin reference DJK27 .S525 1993
• Geoffrey J. Matthews, Historical atlas of East Central Europe 1993 : McKeldin reference DR36 .S88 vol. 1
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Books: UM Libraries

• UM Libraries' Catalog
  The Libraries' catalog provides information about books and other holdings of all libraries at the University of Maryland. Use �multi-campus search� to see what is owned by other University System of Maryland libraries. Books owned by other libraries in the system can be ordered at the computer for delivery to College Park (or elsewhere), click on "Request."

  Note that when searching in the catalog, it is useful to consult the "subjects" listed in catalog records, these can give you ideas about other words or terms to use in your search.

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Books: Other Libraries

• WorldCat
  Combined catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Items not owned by University System of Maryland libraries can be ordered at the computer for borrowing through interlibrary loan.

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Scholarly Journal Articles and Related Publications

ONLINE DATABASES

• Historical Abstracts
  Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. To locate an item, click on the "find it" button.
• America: History and Life
  Information about articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history, with some links to complete articles. In this class will be useful to those who are trying to research relations between US and Eastern European countries. To locate an item, click on the "find it" button.
• ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studiese
  ABSEES covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.
• EBSEES: European Bibliography of the East European Studies
  EBSEES covers European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.
• ATLA Religion Index
  Provides abstracts and indexing for articles, essays, and book reviews dealing with religious and theological scholarship. International in scope and language coverage. Covers all types of religions and a wide range of academic areas including anthropology, philosophy, business, psychology, history, religion, law, sociology, medicine, and theology. Time span is 1949 to present. Selected records going back to 1818.
• RAMBI: Reshimat Ma'amarim Be'mada'e Ha-yahadut/Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
  Bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Will be useful in research of the Holocaust.
  Once you have identified an article, check the Libraries' catalog to see if the Libraries own the periodical in which it appears. Articles described in the database not available in the University of Maryland Libraries can generally be ordered through interlibrary loan.
• PAIS International
  Coverage is international and multidisciplinary on a wide range of public affairs topics, including: the environment, business, education, government, health, international relations, law & legislation, criminal justice, political science, social issues, public policy and public administration.
• PAIS Archive
  This is a back run for PAIS International. Goes back to 1915.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  International coverage of political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy.
• Women's Studies International
  International in scope, including Eastern Europe. Covers issues in women's studies including feminist theory and history, family, mental & physical health, prejudice & gender discrimination, law & legislation, employment.
• New York Times Historical (1851-2001)
• Washington Post Historical (1877-1988)

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Online Sources

An increasing number of materials on all types of subjects are made available online. Here are some examples:

• Portals to the World / Library of Congress
  Internet resources selected by the Library of Congress subject specialists, arranged by country.

• REESWeb Russian and East European Studies

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bibliographies

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• Evaluating Web Sites

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