CATALOGUE TIPS FOR FINDING BOOKS
It is very important to search the catalogue thoroughly for your
topic.
Searching for this region and its nations can be tricky.
Europe, Central -
Here are entered works on the area included in the basins of the Danube, Elbe, and Rhine rivers.
Use Europe, Eastern for the region extending from the western borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia eastward to the Ural Mountains, and sometimes expanded to include East Germany.
Also search for names of individual countries:
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Austria
Germany
Germany, East
Germany West
These can all be further searched by subdivisions
History........browse dates
Politics and government ....browse dates
World War, 1914-1918........browse countries and subdivisions especially
World War, 1914-1918 Peace...and....
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
World War 1939-1945.......browse countries and subdivisions
Cold war
Minorities Europe Eastern etc......
Yugoslavia etc......
Ethnic relations
Germans Czechoslovakia....etc
Hungary Foreign relations Soviet Union
this is the pattern of headings for relations between countries
Germany, East....etc....Social conditions for internal conditions
Hungary...etc Intellectual life
Germany Civilization American influences
Nationalism
Fascism
National Socialism
Fascism Europe
Conservatism Europe
Dissenters Hungary....etc
German reunification question (1949-1990)
All these subject headings can be used in guided keyword search combined with other free terms from your essay topics
For primary sources add terms such as "sources", diaries", "personal narratives"etc
For methodology add the term, historiography.
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
History
Historical abstracts 1971-
Interdisciplinary
Academic OneFile
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.
Academic Search Premier
Includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of history, politics etc Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
A database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage goes back 200 years, so it is very useful for finding articles from history journals over the past 100 years. Some full text available but many of the older journals are held either in the BSL or State Library - check catalogues
Full text searching of a smaller number of journals is available via
Periodicals Archive Online.
WEBSITES
We have prepared resource guides for the related subjects which will contain specialised reference works and websites:
Ethnic cleansing and Genocide in Modern Europe
Fascism and National Socialism
Russia in crisis and revolution:
from Lenin to Putin
Other sites:
REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies, part of the WWW Virtual Library.
WWW-VL HISTORY - the History Virtual Library - look for your country under Europe in the column labelled History by continents
Nationalism and communism in east central Europe compiled by Professor Anna Ciencala of the University of Kansas.
See especially her Bibliography part 2 (1914-1945) and part 3 (1945 to the present)
Spaces of identity -
an online interdisciplinary journal dealing primarily with the academic examination of culture and identity in Central and Eastern Europe.
Open society archives at Central European University in Budapest. The archive possesses key holdings on Communism and the Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe and some holdings are available online.
Cross currents : a yearbook of Central European culture
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES
Europe - Eastern and Central
Reference collection 947.003 F944e
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism, ed. Richard Frucht, 2000
Reference collection 940.559 M663m
Miniature empires : a historical dictionary of the newly independent states, James Minahan, 1998
Reference collection 940.5503 C771e
Europe since 1945 : an encyclopedia, Bernard A. Cook, 2001
Reference collection 940.03 S799e
Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000.
Ed P. N. Stearns. 6 vols. 2001
Ideas and Ideologies
Reference collection 320.533 D2571f
Routledge companion to Fascism and the far right, ed. P. Davies. 2002.
Part one includes Historiography.
Reference collection 335.603 B637w
World fascism : a historical encyclopedia, Cyprian P. Blamires, 2006
Reference collection 320.5403 S675e
Snyder, L.L. Encyclopedia of nationalism. 1990.
Reference collection 300.3 S638
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences.
ed N.J. Belser, 26 vols. 2001.
Also available via the www:
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
Try clicking the Subject Index tab (left column),
and searching topics such as Fascism.
Biography
Reference collection 920.047 S925w
Who's 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, Juliusz Stroynowski, 1989
Reference collection 322.44094 N613b
Biographical dictionary of modern European radicals and socialists, ed. David Nicholls, 1988
Specific countries and topics
Browse in the Reference collection at these numbers for many other useful encyclopedias:
940.3 World War 1914-1918
940.53
World War 1939-1945
943 Germany
943.8 Poland
947 Russian/Soviet
949.7 Yugoslavia
eg
Reference collection 940.5303 Z12w
World War II in Europe : an encyclopedia, David T. Zabecki, 2 vols, 1999
Reference collection 943.003 B977m
Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people and culture 1871-1990,
ed. D. Buse. 2 vols 1998
Reference collection 947.003 M6454e
Encyclopedia of Russian history, James R. Millar, 4 vols. 2004
Reference collection 949.73003 P7377h
Historical dictionary of Slovenia, Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj,
Cold War
Reference collection 327.73047 K85c
Columbia guide to the Cold War, M Kort. 1998
Reference collection 327.7304 Y73l
Longman companion to America, Russia and the Cold War
1941-1998. 1999
Reference collection 327.73047 A734e
Encyclopedia of the Cold War, Thomas Arms. 1994
Reference collection 327.09 F829c
The Cold War, 1945-1991, ed. B. Frankel ,
3 vols 1992.
Yearbooks and Chronology
Reference collection 947 F349c
Chronology of 20th-century eastern European history, Gregory C. Ference, 1994
Timeline: USSR: From the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917 to to Gorbachev's glasnost and
perestroika
Atlases and maps
Historical atlas of the Twentieth Century, especially Communism and Cold War
Reference collection 912.47 G465ro
Gilbert, Martin. Routledge atlas of Russian history
3rd. ed. 2002
Reference collection 911 S9773p
Palgrave concise historical atlas
of the Cold
War, John
Swift, 2003
Reference collection 335.4309 S839a
Atlas of communism, Geoffrey Stern, 1991
Reference collection 911.496 H958p
Palgrave concise historical atlas of the Balkans, Dennis P. Hupchick, 2001
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Consult these to find references to books and journal
articles.
Check for scope and limitations - eg date, inclusions,
exclusions.
Selected, Annotated Bibliography on English Language Works on History of East Central Europe and the Balkans (Part III. 1945 to Present), Anna Cienciala, Prof. of History and Russian and E. European Studies emeritus, Univ. of Kansas
Nationalism and communism in east central Europe compiled by Professor Anna Ciencala of the University of Kansas.
See especially her Bibliography part 2 (1914-1945) and part 3 (1945 to the present)
Reference collection 947.00016 H8190r and supplements
Horak, S.M. Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: a
bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1964-1974. 1978.
supplemented by
Reference collection 947.00016 H8109r 1975-80, published 1982
Reference collection 947.00016 H8109r 1981-85, published 1987
With useful annotations. Cover books
only.
Reference collection 947.00016 H811r
Horecky, P.L. Russia and the Soviet Union: a bibliographic guide
to Western language publications.
1965
Reference collection 355.43 K55c
Communism in the world since 1945: an annotated bibliography, ed. S. Kinnell, 1987
Reference collection 947.0016 P362r
Pearson, R. Russia and Eastern Europe,
1789-1985. 1989.
Reference collection 320.533 R328fa
Rees, R. Fascism and pre-fascism in Europe, 1890-1945; a bibliography of the extreme right. 1984.
Extensive list of books and articles, in various languages: general section and sections on each country.
Foreign Policy and Cold War
Reference collection 327.47 J73s
Soviet foreign policy, 1918-1945 : a guide to research and
research materials , ed. Robert H. Johnston, 1991.
Reference collection327.73047 B627o
Origins, evolution and nature of the Cold War: an annotated
bibliographic guide, J. L. Black. 1986
PRIMARY SOURCES
Contemporary articles
Do not forget to look at any of the journal article indexes listed above, if they
go back far enough, for contemporary articles (1930's, 1950's etc)
on your topic.
JSTOR can be limited by publication date.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Searches for journal articles
published over more than 200 years.
Great for contemporary accounts of 20th century events if you limit searches to
time periods. Some full text available.
Many early journals may be held either in our Store or at the State Library.
Full text searching of a smaller number of journals is available via Periodicals Archive Online.
Other sources of contemporary English language comment on events are:
Microfilm Per 54
The Times (London) 1785-
Use the Times Index, Reference collection 05 T58a
Times digital archive is available at the State Library.
The New York Times
Choose NYT Archive 1851-1980 (from top centre of the screen).
Collections of documents
There are some www sites for sources. Look at:
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, especially the sections:
Russian
Revolution
Postwar Eastern Europe - Soviet Union/Russia
Avalon Project from the Yale Law School contains collections of treaties, international commission reports etc. Click on 20th century and search by keyword (eg name of country) or investigate a collection such as From Versailles to NATO 1918-1949
Foreign
relations of the United States from the US Department of
State especially Volume XXIX, Eastern Europe; Eastern Mediterranean, 1969-1972
United States National Security Archive
Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to
critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national
security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history,
intelligence policy, and more. There are categories such as
Europe,
Nuclear
History etc
WWW-VL History : The
Cold War History 1945-1991
You can use the catalogue to find primary sources
by adding subject heading search terms such as sources, diaries, personal narratives, correspondence.
Microfilm sources
MICROFILM PER 264
New Europe, a journal published 1916-1920
MICROFILM 18338-18359 + Index
Germany and its occupied territories during World War II. United States. Office of Strategic Services
MICROFILM 20581
Postwar Europe, United States. Dept. of State. United States. Office of Strategic Services.
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. The Soviet
Union: internal affairs, 1945/1949 -
1959
MICROFILM PER 193 and printed index
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. The Soviet
Union, foreign affairs, 1945/1949 - 1960/1963
MICROFILM PER 182
CIA research reports--The Soviet Union, 1946-1976
MICROFILM 18513-18517 and guide
The Soviet Union: O.S.S / State Department
intelligence and research reports: 1941-1949 and
1950-1961
MICROFILM 19234-19247
Resources for the third
year methodological essay
First, consult the
catalogue.
This may seem obvious, but many students
fail to fully investigate the resources of our own library. Useful search terms are listed at the top of this guide.
Using
guided keyword search
e.g. Fascism Historiography ( click all of
these)
Austria Historiography ( click
all of these)
DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
Look for historiography in
the general history encyclopedias at the
beginning of this guide.
Reference collection 907.2 B477c
Companion to historiography. ed. M. Bentley.
1997.
Reference collection 907.203 B789e
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. ed.
K. Boyd.
2 vols. 1999.
Reference collection 907.2 H894f
Fifty key thinkers on history, Marnie
Hughes-Warrington. 2000
Reference collection 907.203 W913g
Global encyclopedia of historical writing. ed. D.R. Woolf. 2
vols. 1998
BOOK REVIEWS
In addition to the standard history indexes and
abstracts (listed above) there are other useful tools
listed in Finding
book reviews.
Don't forget to first establish the
exact (first edition) publication date for the title you are
searching.
A few key sources of book reviews are:
JSTOR use Advanced search where you can "limit
your search to" reviews.
Reference collection 028.1 F219c
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly
journals 1886-1974.
Reference collection 011.05 B72
Book review digest. 1905-
Book review index. 1965-
also at Reference collection 011.05 B724
Reviews of recently published books can be found in
Project Muse (mid 1990's onwards)
Factiva full text newspaper coverage from the
1980's onwards.
Include the words book
reviews in your search
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