LibGuides: Russian Literature and Culture: Finding Articles

Finding Journal Articles & Essays

Databases allow you to search the contents of journals to identify articles on your topic. Some databases are inter-disciplinary, and some focus on a particular subject area. Some contain full text or links to full text from other sources. Many include citations for books, dissertations, and conference papers as well as journal articles.

If the article you are looking for is not available at Reed, you can request it from Interlibrary loan.

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database that provides some full text and some citations for thousands of journals. A good starting place for beginning research and quickly finding articles for a variety of topics.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
An index of articles in the humanities, with abstracts starting in 1994.
Coverage Dates: 1984 - Present
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
An index of articles in the humanities, with abstracts starting in 1994.
Coverage Dates: 1907 - 1984
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Searchable electronic archive of the fulltext of journals. Coverage is from journal's first date of publication to three to five years before the present date.
Coverage Dates: 1800 - Varies
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Ref PB1 .M521 Annual bibliography of books, periodical articles, dissertations, and festschriften for the entire field of modern languages and literatures. Available in print 1921 - 1962.
Coverage Dates: 1921 - Present
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
An electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1993. Every article is indexed. Easy to search for book reviews.
Coverage Dates: 1665 - 1995
Historical Abstracts (1954 - Present) This link opens in a new window
Index, with abstracts, to research in world history (excluding North America) from 1450 through the 20th Century. For North American history use America: History and Life.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources from LexisNexis. A good source for current articles in major newspapers and for looking up information about companies, industries, and countries.
Stalin Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The SDA 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.
Coverage Dates: unknown - unknown

Literaturnaia gazeta
Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the "father of Soviet literature," writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia's cultural heritage. With its focus on literary and intellectual life, Literaturnaia gazeta allowed Soviet Russia’s preeminent authors, poets, and cultural figures a particular podium for commentary, affording perhaps fewer restrictions than might be possible in other publications. Literaturnaia gazeta was considered the most open among newspapers of the Soviet era, and it remains popular among the intelligentsia in today’s Russia. Russian language only.
Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive
Iskusstvo kino, established in 1931, is the leading journal of Russian, and formerly Soviet, cinema. Iskusstvo kino includes critical reviews of both domestic and foreign film, as well as scholarly articles on cinematic theory and history as well as the Russian culture and arts scene. It was first published under title Proletarskoe kino(1931-1932), then Sovetskoe kino(1933-1935), and finally under the present name (since 1936). Russian language only.