Resource Type: Digital Archive – Journals

  • Izvestiia RAN. Seriia Literatury i Iazyka Digital Archive

    Izvestiia RAN. Seriia Literatury i Iazyka Digital Archive

    Leading Russian journal in the fields of literature, linguistics, and philology.

    Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (RAN). Seriia Literatury i Iazyka (Известия Российской Академии наук. Серия литературы и языка, The Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series: Literature and Language) is a highly respected academic journal that has been published by the Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences since 1940. The journal’s focus is on research in the fields of literature, linguistics, and philology. It is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious academic publications in Russia.

    The scope of the journal includes a broad range of topics related to Russian literature and language. Published six times a year, the journal features original research articles, reviews, and critical essays on literary theory, history of literature, comparative literature, linguistics, and cultural studies.

    Authors for the journal include esteemed scholars, experts, and university professors from Russia and abroad, while its distinguished editorial board ensures the quality of the published research. The journal’s interdisciplinary approach allows for a wide range of perspectives on the study of Russian literature from its earliest beginnings to contemporary works, and its coverage of linguistics includes a range of approaches, from syntax and semantics to sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

    The Izvestiia RAN. Seriia Literatury i Iazyka Digital Archive includes all issues published from 1940 on, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, features full page-level digitization and complete original graphics, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-IZLIT
    • Year First Published: 1940
    • Archive: 1940–2025
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Bi-monthly (6 issues per year)
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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  • Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive

    Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive

    The leading journal of Soviet and Russian cinema.

    With more movie screens than any nation at any time, the Soviet Union’s cinematic legacy helped shape the artistic and social agenda of the socialist world for most of the twentieth century. Iskusstvo kino (Искусство кино, Art of Cinema), founded in 1931, chronicled that cinematic legacy with its devotion to art in Russian film.

    Renowned as one of Russia’s premier journals of cinema, Iskusstvo kino offers Russian and foreign movie reviews, articles on filmmaking and cinema culture, criticism, and essays. More than that, Iskusstvo kino traces Russian arts and culture from the ‘socialist realism’ era — when film became the prime propaganda tool (“agitki”) for instilling Communist fervor in the masses — all the way through contemporary filmmaking.

    Iskusstvo kino was first published under the title Proletarskoe kino (Пролетарское кино, Proletarian Cinema, 1931–1932), then Sovetskoe kino (Советское кино, Soviet Cinema, 1933–1935), and finally under its present name (since 1936). A monthly publication from 1931–1941, Iskusstvo kino went on hiatus during World War II and then was published irregularly during 1945-1947 and bimonthly during 1947–1951 before resuming monthly publication in 1952.

    The Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full-text articles, with full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The archive has searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

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    • Product Code: DA-IK
    • Year First Published: 1931
    • Archive: 1931–Feb 2023
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Monthly
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  • International Affairs Digital Archive

    International Affairs Digital Archive

    A Russian journal of world politics, diplomacy and international relations.

    Offering unique, first-hand analysis of major foreign policy and security issues facing Russia and other former Soviet republics, this internationally renowned journal is the English translation of the Russian-language journal Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn, which is published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The editorial board of this journal is traditionally headed by the minister himself, while the journal’s contributors are primarily experienced, high-ranking diplomats. As such, International Affairs is an excellent primary source for anyone interested in the course of Russian policy in foreign affairs. International Affairs often includes material from independent analysts, whose opinions may or may not differ from the official line. Roundtable discussions on topical world issues will also usually include representatives from the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from think tanks and universities.

    International Affairs sheds light on issues of foreign policy and diplomacy of Russia as well as:

    • Interrelations of Russia between foreign countries
    • Economies and policies of neighboring states
    • History of foreign relations, history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the USSR
    • Analysis and commentary from experts on international life
    • Book reviews of relevant publications
    • Memoirs, often devoted to experiences of diplomats in contested or relatively unknown episodes of international relations
    • White papers from international organizations and conferences
    • Previously unpublished documents on Soviet and Russian foreign policy

    The International Affairs Digital Archive contains the most complete set of the journal, comprising more than 600 issues and nearly 16,000 articles. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive features full-text articles, with full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The archive has searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

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    • Product Code: DA-IA
    • Year First Published: 1955
    • Archive: 1955–2025
    • Language: English
    • Country: United States / Russia
    • Frequency: Bi-monthly (6 issues per year)
    • Format: Full text and full image (article-based PDFs starting in 2015)
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  • Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia Digital Archive

    Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia Digital Archive

    Encyclopedia of the émigré life of ex-Russians in the first half of the 20th Century.

    Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (Иллюстрированная Россия, La Russie Illustrée, Illustrated Russia) was a weekly literary and illustrated journal, published in Paris from 1924-1939. The founding editor of the journal, Miron Mironov, was a prominent Russian émigré journalist who had started his career in Russia, honing his writing and editorial skills at prominent Russian publications in St. Petersburg and Kyiv before leaving the country.

    The target demographic of the journal was the growing community of Russian émigrés in France and elsewhere who left Russia behind in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Contributing to the popular success of the journal were both its production quality and the quality of its content, which were lavishly underwritten by a coterie of wealthy benefactors in exile. As such, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia was an unrivaled source of literary and cultural tidbits as well as long-form writing and serialized novels.

    Perhaps the greatest contributing factor to its success was the deliberately apolitical nature of the publication, unique among a growing list of Russian émigré publications of that time that were engaged in internecine ideological wars. The journal’s apoliticism had its limits, however, as communism and the Soviet authorities were periodically and mercilessly ridiculed on the pages of the publication, leaving no doubt as to its overall political orientation.

    Over the years the journal would become one of the most important, if not the most important, Russian émigré periodicals attracting literary and journalistic talent from the far-flung Russian diaspora communities. Despite its brief lifespan of 15 years, the journal published 748 issues, leaving an indelible mark on the Russian literary and cultural scene and becoming an important part of the twentieth-century Russian émigré cultural landscape. Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia remains an invaluable and unique repository of textual and visual representation, providing researchers with indispensable insight into Russian cultural life in exile.

    The Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia Digital Archive contains the complete set of the journal from the very first issue, comprising 748 issues and more than 21,000 pages. The archive features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-IR
    • Year First Published: 1924
    • Archive: 1924–1939
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: France
    • City: Paris
    • Frequency: Weekly
    • Format: PDF, page-based
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  • Geography, Environment, Sustainability Digital Archive

    Geography, Environment, Sustainability Digital Archive

    English-language journal covering key scientific research.

    Published by the Russian Geographical Society, the Lomonosov Moscow State University Geography Department, and the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography, this scientific English-language journal aims to inform and cover the results of research and global achievements in the sphere of geography, environmental conservation and sustainable development.

    The articles published in Geography, Environment, Sustainability are aimed at Russian and non-Russian scientists alike, while the interdisciplinary focus of the journal means that the subject matter will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and researchers, including geographers, ecologists, specialists in environmental conservation, natural resource use and sustainable development, GIS specialists, cartographers, social and political geographers, etc.

    The journal is organized according to the three major sections of geography, environmental science and sustainable development, and includes articles on environmental management, human geography, global and regional environmental and climate change, environmental regional planning, applied geographical and environmental studies, geo-informatics and environmental mapping, oil and gas exploration and environmental problems, nature conservation and biodiversity, and environment and health.

    • Product Code: DA-GES
    • Year First Published: 2008
    • Archive: 2010–2025
    • Language: English
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Quarterly
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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    About the Archive

    The Geography, Environment, Sustainability Digital Archive contains over 450 articles, and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources. An additional year’s worth of content is available for purchase on an annual basis.

    Recent articles published in Geography, Environment, Sustainability include:

    • Land Cover Classification and Change Detection Analyzing Multi-Temporal LANDSAT Data: A Case Study of Gazipur Sadar, Bangladesh Between 1973 and 2017
    • Forecasted Trends in Changes of Vegetation in the European Part of Russia in Connection with Global Warming
    • Spreading of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Atlantic Ocean
    • Contemporary Land Reform Policy and Practice in South Africa and Its Environmental Implications
    • Risk Assessment of Encountering Killer Waves in the Black Sea
    • Geotechnical Safety Issues in the Cities of Polar Regions
    • Balanced Fertilization for Sustainable Development of Agriculture in the Savannas of South America
    • Evaluation of Glacier Melt Contribution to Runoff in the North Caucasus Alpine Catchments Using Isotopic Methods and Energy Balance Modeling
    • Isoprene and Monoterpenes over Russia and Their Impacts in Tropospheric Ozone Formation
    • Spatial Analysis on Health Problems Among Unorganized Industrial Workers in Ambedkarnagar District, India
    • A Novel Methodological Approach of Estimating Urban Population in Nigeria
    • Opportunistic Fungi in the Polluted Soils of Kola Peninsula
    • Estimation of Dispersed Glaciation Shrinkage Under Climate Change
  • Far Eastern Affairs Digital Archive

    Far Eastern Affairs Digital Archive

    A Russian journal on China, Japan and the Asia-Pacific.

    Far Eastern Affairs is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for China and Contemporary Asia (formerly known as the Institute for Far Eastern Studies). The journal provides in-depth multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discussion of Russia’s relations with China, Japan, North and South Korea, as well as other countries of the Asia-Pacific region. As such the journal introduces its vast contingent of readers, both in Russia and abroad, to the region’s rich history and culture, politics and economic state of affairs. It does so by providing cutting-edge research and commentary on a broad array of topics and issues of interest to specialists and non-specialists alike.

    Since its inception in Russian in 1972 (in English – since 1974) the journal has become the premier scholarly publication in Russia that provides deep insight into and new information about the region as well as Russia’s role in shaping its social and political dynamics by attracting works from well-known scholars, practitioners, statesmen, diplomats, and analysts. Its primary objective is to cultivate and maintain a long-lasting, relevant, and academically rigorous scholarship on one of the strategically and geopolitically most important regions in the world.

    The Far Eastern Affairs Digital Archive contains the most complete set of the journal from the very first issue, comprising more than 200 issues and nearly 31,500 pages of high-quality scholarship. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    Infoteka is the publisher of Far Eastern Affairs. For current year subscriptions, please visit infoteka.com/publishing/far-eastern-affairs or contact us.

    • Product Code: DA-FEA
    • Year First Published: 1974
    • Archive: 1974–2024
    • Language: English
    • Country: United States / Russia
    • Frequency: Quarterly
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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  • Eksport Vooruzhenii Digital Archive

    Eksport Vooruzhenii Digital Archive

    Authoritative Russian journal on the global arms industry.

    Published since 1997 by the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Eksport Vooruzhenii (Экспорт вооружений, Arms Exports) is one of the most authoritative and most important scholarly publications in Russia covering issues related to the global production and trade of military goods and armaments.

    Published bimonthly, the journal has distinguished itself as a provider of insightful and balanced commentary on and analysis of the global arms market, becoming a platform for original research on broader industry dynamics, developments, and trends. Among other various topics, the journal devotes particular focus to the analysis of military-technical aspects of the defense industries of various countries, the viability of weapons systems in a constantly evolving global arms market in the context of emerging geopolitical challenges, and various cases (oftentimes unannounced) of defense-industrial cooperation between Russian and foreign companies.

    The Eksport Vooruzhenii Digital Archive comprises more than 145 issues and over 2,100 articles, including several special issues published in addition to the regular bimonthly issues. This is the most complete set of the journal available and includes several rare issues that were procured and scanned by Infoteka especially for this archive. An additional year’s worth of content is available for purchase on an annual basis.

    The archive features full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The archive has searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-EXP
    • Year First Published: 1997
    • Archive: 1997–2025
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Bi-monthly (6 issues per year)
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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  • Druzhba Narodov Digital Archive

    Druzhba Narodov Digital Archive

    Influential literary journal highlighting writing from across the Soviet Union.

    Founded in March 1939 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, Druzhba Narodov (Дружба народов, Friendship of the Peoples) is one of the Soviet Union’s most influential literary “thick journals” and a major institution of Russian-language publishing across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

    The journal began as an almanac designed to bring the literature of the Soviet republics into a shared cultural forum. Its core mission was to introduce readers in the Russian-language center to prose, poetry, and literary commentary produced across the USSR’s many languages—Uzbek, Georgian, Armenian, and many others—through publication in Russian translation.

    After a wartime hiatus (June 1941–October 1943), the publication resumed, eventually establishing a bimonthly schedule in 1949 and transitioning to a monthly journal in 1955. During the Soviet era, Druzhba Narodov operated under the auspices of the Union of Soviet Writers and became one of the principal platforms for the state doctrine of “friendship among nations.” The journal helped consolidate a tradition of literary translation as a high-status intellectual craft, with leading Russian poets and writers serving as translators and adapters—including Boris Pasternak, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Pavel Antokolsky, Semyon Lipkin, Arseny Tarkovsky, and others.

    Across decades, the journal published a wide range of major Soviet and post-Soviet authors and critics, including Viktor Astafiev, Vasyl Bykov, Rasul Gamzatov, Fazil Iskander, Bulat Okudzhava, Anatoly Rybakov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Vasily Shukshin, Lev Gumilev, Kornelii Chukovsky, Svetlana Alexievich, and many others. Its pages document shifting literary and political climates from the late Stalin period through Khrushchev’s Thaw, the era of late Soviet stagnation, the rupture of perestroika, and the cultural realignments of the post-1991 period. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Druzhba Narodov moved from being an official organ of the Union of Writers to an independent, privately published journal.

    The Druzhba Narodov Digital Archive supports advanced research and teaching by providing a fully digitized, searchable corpus that can be used to trace authors, themes, genres, regions, and translation practices over time. It is particularly valuable for scholarship on Soviet cultural policy, center-periphery relations, literary translation and mediation, nationalism and multinationalism, and the evolving relationship between literature and public discourse.

    The archive provides comprehensive online access to a major institution of Russian-language publishing for nearly nine decades. The fully digitized archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. Featuring full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and a user-friendly bilingual interface in Russian and English, the searchable database enables efficient exploration of key literary content. The archive is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-DRUZ
    • Year First Published: 1939
    • Archive: 1939–2025
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Monthly
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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    More about the Soviet “Thick Journals”

    The famed Soviet tolstye zhurnaly, or “thick journals,” were significant platforms for literary and intellectual discourse. Tolstye zhurnaly such as Druzhba Narodov played a complex and multifaceted role in Soviet intellectual and literary life. They were not merely publications but institutions that shaped and were shaped by the cultural, intellectual, and political currents of their time. These journals served multiple roles:

    They acted as repositories of high culture, preserving the intellectual and literary achievements of the era. Given the limited avenues for independent publishing, these journals were the primary platforms where established and emerging writers could reach an audience.

    State-Controlled Outlets. While they were crucial platforms for intellectual and artistic expression, it’s important to remember that these journals were often used to propagate official ideologies, and the works published in them usually underwent rigorous censorship.

    Academic Importance. For academics studying the Soviet period, tolstye zhurnaly offer a valuable glimpse into the state-sanctioned intellectual climate of the time. They provide context for how literature and intellectual thought evolved under different political and social conditions.

    Catalysts for Change. During more liberal periods, such as the Khrushchev Thaw and the perestroika years, tolstye zhurnaly could act as catalysts for change, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable to discuss and publish.

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  • 30 Dnei Digital Archive

    30 Dnei Digital Archive

    Illustrated Soviet literary journal featuring fiction, essays, and poetry.

    Founded in 1925 in Moscow and originally appearing as a literary supplement to the newspaper Gudok, 30 Dnei (30 дней, 30 Days) was an illustrated Soviet literary journal most famous for the serialized publications of such Soviet literary sensations as Il’f and Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf. Praised and supported by none other than Maxim Gorky, the journal was conceived by its publisher as a platform for the publication of short form literature, both original and translated, and was geared towards the emerging generation of writers and the intelligentsia.

    Apart from helping launch and shape the literary careers of a slew of Soviet writers, the journal was instrumental in introducing acclaimed works of short fiction, essays, and poetry by foreign authors as well. Some of the most important Soviet and foreign writers whose works have appeared on the pages of 30 Dnei were Vasily Grossman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Yury Olesha, Valentin Kataev, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Paul Valery, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, among others. The journal also featured visually striking covers designed by famous Soviet artists and photojournalists, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Veniamin Briskin, and the creative group Kukryniksy.

    Falling into disfavor with the central government in later years, with periodical criticisms of the editorial direction of the journal appearing in Pravda and Literaturnaia gazeta, and faced with challenges following Nazi Germany’s invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the journal ceased publication in December 1941.

    The 30 Dnei Digital Archive comprises the entire collection of the popular literary monthly journal, totaling 195 issues, 5,850 articles, and 19,500 pages. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The archive has searchable text and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-DN
    • Year First Published: 1925
    • Archive: 1925–1941
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Monthly
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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