Available in the College Bookstore:
Russia and the Soviet Union: An Historical Introduction..., John M. Thompson
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Serge A. Zenkovsky
The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, Carolyn Pouncy
The Love of Worker Bees, Aleksandra Kollontai
Sofia Petrovna, Lidia Chukovskaya
A revolution of their own: voices of women in Soviet history, Engel and Posadskaya-Vanderbeck,
The Trial Begins, Abram Tertz [Andrey Sinyavsky]
Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev, Goscilo and Lindsey, Eds.

Short reading selections are available on Reserve in McCabe Library, as are some videos. CDs and videos are available in the Language Resource Center (Kohlberg Hall) or Underhill Music Library.

Works on Reserve

Videos in the Language Resource Center, Kohlbergh Hall
Aelita, Queen of Mars [Laser Disk], Yakov Protozanov, dir.
Autumn Marathon [video] Georgi Daniela, dir.
Burnt by the Sun,[video] Nikita Mikhalkov, dir.
The Tailor [Glasnost' Film series]

Books in the Reference Section at McCabe Library
A Handbook of Russian Literature, Victor Terras, ed.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, Nicholas Rzhevsky, ed.

Books and films on Reserve at McCabe Library
Aelita, Queen of Mars [video], Yakov Protazanov, dir.
Andrei Rublev [video], Andrei Tarkovsky, dir.
Anna [video], Nikita Mikhalkov
Burnt by the Sun, [video], Nikita Mikhalkov, dir.
Bye-bye Babushka, [video], Rebecca Feig, dir.
Chekhov: Four Plays, Anton Chekhov
Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol
The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, Carolyn Pouncy
Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev, Goscilo and Lindsey, Eds.
The Icon and the Axe, James Billington
The Itinerants: Russian Painters Series, Andrei. Lebedev, comp.
The Land of the Firebird, Susan Massey
Little Vera, [video] Vasily Pichul, dir.
The Love of Worker Bees, Aleksandra Kollontai
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles and Tales, Sergei Zenkovsky
Memoirs of Princess Dashkova, Dashkova (Geheith, trans.)
Modern Artists on Art: Ten Essays, Robert Herbert, ed.
Mother Russia, Joanna Hubbs
My Life in Art, Konstantin Stanislavksy
Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period, Christine Worobec
The Penguin Book of Russian Verse, Dimitri Obolensky
Peter the Great Transforms Russia, James Cracraft
Red Empire: Revolutionaries Vol. I [video],Gwyneth Hughes, dir.
A revolution of their own: voices of women in Soviet history, Engel, Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Eds.
Revolutionary dreams: Utopian vision and experimental life in the Russian Revolution, Richard Stites
Russia and the Golden Horde, Charles Halperin
Russia and the Soviet Union: An Historical Introduction from the Kievan State to the Present, John Thompson
Russian Fairy Tales, Afanasyev
Russian Popular Culture, Richard Stites
Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika, Nancy Reis
Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law, M. M. Balzer, Ed.
Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, George Saunders, ed.
Sexuality and the body in Russian culture, Costlow, Sandler, Vowles, Eds.
The Short Stories of Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sofiya Petrovna, Lidiya Chukovskaya
Stories and Prose Poems, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Thief [video], Pavel Chukhrai, dir.
The Trial Begins, Abram Tertz [Andrey Sinyavsky]
The Year of Protest, Hugh McLean, ed.

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