Internet Resources for the Teaching and Study of 

Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

Compiled by Jacqueline M. Olich, Ph.D.jmolich@email.unc.edu11/6/2001

Updated 11/16/2006

Instructors:

Indiana University’s Audiovisual and Curriculum Library for Russian and East European Studies:

http://www.iub.edu/~reeiweb/audiovisual/avintro.shtml

Indiana University loans videos, CDs, maps, posters, and classroom kits without charge to instructors for use in the classroom or for curriculum development.(Users must pay return postage and insurance).

Ohio State University’s CREES K-12 Teacher Outreach Page:

http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/teachers.html

Links to Balkan, Russian, and more general Internet reources.

University of Illinois’s REEC K-12 Annotated Bibliography:

http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/outreach/bibliography.html

Annotated bibliography of books, magazines, and CDs.

The Face of Russia:

http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/

Website for PBS series includes interactive timeline, Cyrillic alphabet primer, and lesson plans appropriate for grades K-12.

Revelations From the Russian Archives (Library of Congress Exhibit):

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

Primary documents suitable for high school and college students.

Columbia University’s EERE NRC Lesson Plans:

http://sipa.columbia.edu/REGIONAL/ECE/teachers.html

Includes lesson plans on the Ukraine and Kosovo for grades 9-12.

BBC in Samara:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_489000/489283.stm

A day in the life of a child from Samara.

International Pen Friends:

http://www.europa-pages.com/penpal_form.html

Helps teachers establish group e-mail exchanges.

Intercultural Email Classroom Connections:

http://www.iecc.org/

IECC helps teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges

Students:

Russian Maps, Climate, and Geography

 

The Empire That Was: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Prerevolutionary photographic survey of the Russian empire.

Map of Present-Day Russia:

http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/russia.pdf

Russian Weather:

http://meteo.infospace.ru/main.htm

Russia and the Former Soviet Union Maps:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth.html

Historical Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Union:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_commonwealth.html
 

Russian and Soviet History and Politics

 

Chronology of Russian History:

http://www.bucknell.edu/x20136.xml

Russian Calendar Background:

http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/Russia.html

Witnesses of An Age: the Residents of Leningrad:

http://east.projects.v2.nl/witnesses/index.html

PBS NewsHour Special Report on Russian Politics:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/russia/index.html

Russian Historical Texts in English:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/Russhist.HTML

Cold War International History Project (CWIHP):

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

REES WEB:

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

The Russian Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/blalphabet.shtml

Illustrated History of Russia and the Soviet Union:

http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/mes/russia/history.html

Documents in Russian History, An On-line Sourcebook:

http://artsci.shu.edu/reesp/documents/index.html

Lenin Internet Archive:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

The Russian History Index:

http://vlib.iue.it/hist-russia/Index.html

Who Is Vladimir Putin?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june00/russia_01-03.html

The International Crisis Group ‘s Crisis Web:

http://www.crisisweb.org/


 

Russian Life and Culture 

 

Russian Icon Index:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/icons/index.html

Classical Music Under Soviet Rule:

http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/musov.html

Sher’s Russian Music Links:

http://www.websher.net/inx/icdefault1.htm#cat018

Russian Puzzles:

http://www.avalon.net/~emelya/PuzzleFun.html

Russian Fairy Tales:

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~tales/images.html

Museums of Russia:

http://www.museum.ru/defengl.htm

The Chairman Smiles: Posters From the Former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China:

http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/

 

Provocative Reading

 

 

Additional Resources:

WWW Virtual Guide to the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology:

http://web.mit.edu/slava/guide/

Sher’s Russia Index:

http://www.websher.net/inx/link.html

Key Links to Central Asian Studies on the Internet: 

http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/

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