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
Use IUCAT or OneSearch@IU
Try "Subject Headings" when searching. Some of the useful "Subject Headings" include:
Personal names
Historical events ("Collectivization of agriculture"; Sedentarization; Famines)
English-language Articles
Academic search
JSTOR
Russian-language Articles
Universal database of Russian social sciences and humanities
For more information on citation styles visit "Help With Writing Sources" on the library website.
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)