The library’s collection for Soviet Central Asia is extensive.
It is located on the 6th floor of the Wells Library east wing, ALF (Auxiliary Library Facilities, aka. remote storage), and online.
The library has a dedicated subject librarian for Central Asian studies, Dr. Akram Habibulla (akkhabib@indiana.edu; Wells E960; 812-855-9885).
The librarian for Slavic and East European studies is Wookjin Cheun (wcheun@indiana.edu ; Wells E560; 812-855-9413).
Library of Congress call number ranges for History of Central Asia:
DK845-860 Soviet Central Asia. West Turkestan
DK901-909.5 Kazakhstan. Kazakh S.S.R.
DK909.2-909.39 Alma Ata
DK911-919.5 Kyrgyzstan. Kirghiz S.S.R. Kirghizia
DK919.2-919.39 Frunze
DK921-929.5 Tajikistan. Tajik S.S.R. Tadzhikistan
DK929.2-929.39 Dushanbe
DK931-939.5 Turkmenistan. Turkmen S.S.R. Turkmenia
DK939.2-939.39 Ashkhabad
DK941-949.5 Uzbekistan. Uzbek S.S.R.
DK949.2-949.39 Tashkent
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he magazine covered issues dealing with economics, politics, life abroad, life in Soviet republics, women’s fashion, as well as broader issues in culture and the arts. One of its most popular features was the translations of Soviet literary works, making available in English, (and other languages) works of Russian and Soviet writers that were previously unavailable. An important communist propaganda outlet, the magazine continued its run until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
The Stalin Digital Archive is a result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press (YUP) to create an electronic database of finding aids, to digitize documents and images, and to publish in different forms and media materials from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of RGASPI.
The Annals of Communism series contains 25 volumes of scholarly commentary, annotation, and interpretation of documents from state and party archives selected by teams of Western and Russian editors. These volumes span the history of Soviet and international communism. Highlights include: foreign policy with Germany before World War II; communications during the Great Purges; relations with Western intellectuals and leaders; and private notations on many Soviet leaders.
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Sibirskaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia (1929-1932?) [an extensive article on Kazakh ASSR]
Bolʹshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia (1926-1947; 1949-1958; 1970-1981)
Sovetskaia istoricheskaia entsiklopediia (1961-1976) [16 vols.]
Rossiiskaia istoricheskaia entsiklopediia (2015- )
Dictionaries
Historical dictionary of Kazakhstan (2012)
Historical dictionary of Tajikistan (2018)
Aggregators (or Reference Suites)
Oxford Reference Online
Gale Virtual Reference Online
Other
Europa World Plus
Memoirs and Diaries
Istoriia sovetskogo obshchestva v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov, 1917-1957: Annotirovannyi ukazatel' memuarnoi literatury. (1958-1967)
Sovetskoe obshchestvo v vospominaniiakh i dnevnikakh: Annotirovannyi bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ knig, publikatsii v sbornikakh i zhurnalakh. (1987-2017) [useful volume-by-volume info at GPIB (Gos. Publichnaia Istoricheskaia Biblioteka Rossii)]
Rossiia i rossiiskaia emigratsiia v vospominaniiakh i dnevnikakh: Annotirovannyi ukazatel’ knig, zhurnal’nykh i gazetnykh publikatsii, izdannykh za rubezhom v 1917-1991 gg. v 4-kh tomakh. (2003-2006)
Serials
Periodicheskaia pechat’ SSSR, 1917-1949: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. (1955-1963)
Gazety SSSR 1917-1960: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik. (1970-1984)
Half a century of Soviet serials, 1917-1968: A bibliography and union list of serials published in the USSR. (1968)
Published Documents
Otkrytyi arkhiv (1999-2013)