Subject: Humanities

  • Seans Digital Archive

    Seans Digital Archive

    Influential Russian film studies journal.

    Founded in 1989 by the young Leningrad film critic Lyubov Arkus and supported by the erstwhile Lenfilm studio director Aleksandr Golutva, Seans (Сеанс, Seance) grew to become one of the most influential film journals in Russia and the post-Soviet space. Housed on the premises of Lenfilm studio, the quarterly journal was conceived as a trade publication reporting on the goings-on of the domestic and foreign film industries. However, from its earliest issues, Seans set out to chart a more original course, becoming in essence a forum for the discussion of not only the latest trends in the industry but also of film criticism, film studies, and the ever-evolving language of cinema and the visual arts. Each issue of Seans is centered around a particular theme, with content addressing a variety of related artistic, cinematographic, and social concerns.

    Seans took a six-year hiatus from 1998–2004 following the death of Sergey Dobrotvorsky, one of the journal’s key editors. Although not technically in production during these years, the journal’s editors and writers nevertheless continued their collaboration, producing a seven-volume encyclopedia on contemporary Russian cinematic arts.

    Over the years Seans has received high praise, attracting the collaboration of some of the most significant names from the Russian film industry, as well as from the broader world of art history and criticism. The long list of collaborators and admirers of the journal includes such renowned figures as filmmakers Alexander Sokurov and Sergey Bondarchuk, writer and historian Samuil Lurie, literary critic and film historian Mikhail Iampolski, memoirist Natalya Trauberg, and many others.

    Perhaps one of the most unique and endearing qualities of Seans is the journal’s commitment to minimalistic black and white print aesthetics. Despite advances in print technology, Seans has remained loyal to its origins, eschewing gloss and glamour for textured and substantive content, making it a standout enterprise in the industry and the go-to resource for the modern Russian-speaking cineaste.

    The Seans Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1990 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, 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-SNS
    • Year First Published: 1990
    • Archive: 1990–2025
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: St. Petersburg
    • Frequency: Quarterly
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    Journal Themes

    Each issue of Seans is devoted to a specific theme. Examples of past themes include:

    • Based on true events (Основан на реальных событиях)
    • Back in the USSR
    • Sources of the impossible (Источники невозможного)
    • Speak, Memory
    • It’s sad (Это печально)
    • Everything is going according to plan (Все идет по плану)
    • Faust
    • Le tour de France
    • Russian Cabinet of Curiosities (Русская кунсткамера)
    • Utopia (Утопия)
    • 25 years later (25 лет спустя)
    • Fassbinder
    • Ressentiment time (Время ресентимента)
    • 1968 (Шестьдесят восьмой год)
    • Behavior problem (Проблема поведения)
    • This is not a movie (Это не фильм)
    • Safe Mode
    • Hitchcock (Хичкок)
    • F**K
    • Fellini
    • Isolation (Изоляция)
    • Hong Sang-su (Хон Сан-су) Right Now / Wrong Then
  • Russkaia Literatura Digital Archive

    Russkaia Literatura Digital Archive

    Renowned literary journal from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

    Russkaia literatura (Русская литература, Russian Literature) is a well-known journal of literary criticism. The journal is one of the most comprehensive, reliable and authoritative resources featuring biographical information and criticism of Russian and Soviet authors in various genres. Published since 1958 by the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskii Dom), this scholarly journal features numerous research papers, discussion pieces, analytical articles and critical essays concerning classical and modern writers and poets of Russia.

    The Russkaia Literatura Digital Archive contains the complete run of the journal from 1958 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, and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-RLI
    • Year First Published: 1958
    • Archive: 1958–2025
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: St. Petersburg
    • Frequency:
      Quarterly
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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  • Russkii Arkhiv Digital Archive

    Russkii Arkhiv Digital Archive

    Well-known pre-revolutionary historical and literary journal.

    Russkii arkhiv (Русскiй Архивъ, Russian Archive) is a well-known monthly historical and literary journal published in Moscow from 1863 to 1917 (published bi-monthly from 1880–1884). Founded by Pyotr I. Bartenev, a longtime editor of the journal, Russkii arkhiv presented a comprehensive picture of Russian cultural and political history during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Russkii arkhiv published mostly unreleased memoirs, epistolary, literary and institutional documentary materials that highlighted the cultural and political history of the Russian nobility in the 18th and 19th centuries. Documents included in the journal celebrated Russia’s renowned literary and artistic culture, including those devoted to the life and work of Alexander Pushkin, letters and diaries by numerous Decembrists, notes from ambassadors to the Court of Peter the Great, accounts of Peter the Great reforms, and diaries and memoirs by members of the ruling, military, and aristocratic classes of Russia.

    The Russkii Arkhiv Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues of the journal (650 issues and nearly 100,000 pages), as well as several supplemental publications (see list below). The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    Note: Russkii arkhiv was written in the Old Russian orthography used at the time, which included the letters І, Ѣ, Ѳ and Ѵ. These letters were later eliminated from the Russian alphabet during the orthographic reform of 1918. To facilitate full-text searching of this journal, the database includes a special keyboard containing the old Russian characters. This virtual keyboard allows users to enter words containing pre-reform Russian letters (e.g. “сѵнодъ,” “дѣтство”). In addition, article-level keywords, bibliographic references, and other metadata has been added to improve the database’s search functionality. Where needed, the scanned files have been retouched to ensure a fully text searchable database.

    • Product Code: DA-RSA
    • Year First Published: 1863
    • Archive: 1863–1917
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Monthly
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    Supplementary Materials

    Russkii arkhiv: predmetnaiia rospis

    (Русскiй Архивъ: предметная роспись, Russkii arkhiv: a list of articles by subject) This publication contains lists of the articles published in Russkii arkhiv in 1863–1882 (twenty years), 1863–1892 (thirty years), 1863–1908 (inclusive), along with subject and alphabetical references. Starting in 1907 parts of the rospis started to accompany Russkii arkhiv itself and in 1908 the complete rospis was printed as a separate publication.

    Predmetnyi i alfavitnyi katalog kollektsii knig Chertkovskoi biblioteki v triokh chastiakh, izdannyi v vide prilozheniia k Russkomu arkhivu (1863–1868)

    (Каталогъ книг Чертковской библiотеки, The subject and alphabetical catalog of the collection of books of the Chertkov Library in three volumes, published as a supplement to Russkii arkhiv [1863–1868])

    Severnyie tsvety

    (Сѣверные цвѣты, Northern Flowers) A literary almanac published in St. Petersburg during 1824–1830 by the well-known Russian poet and journalist Anton Delvig. For the years 1825 and 1826 the almanac issues were reprinted as supplements to Russkii arkhiv (1881).

    Stikhotvoreniia Vasiliia Andreevicha Zhukovskago

    (Стихотворенiя Василія Андреевича Жуковскаго, Poems of Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky)

    Zapiski Filippa Filippovicha Vigelia

    (Записки Филипа Филиповича Вигеля, The memoirs of Fillip Philipp Philippovich Vigel) А Russkii arkhiv publication, Zapiski portrays an exhaustive gallery of the Russian people of the first half of the 19th century, placing them in a context of everyday life of the time.

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  • Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals

    Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals

    Robust collection of major Russian publications on social sciences and humanities.

    Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals provides researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on a wide variety of subjects. The collection features over 75 Russian journals on sociology, philosophy, history, economy, pedagogics, politology, law, and more. This includes all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ranging in focus from archaeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions and independent scholarly publications.

    • Product Code: UDB-EDU
    • Archive: 1997–present
    • Language: Russian; some titles in English
    • Country: Russia
    • Cities: Bryansk, Chisinau, Magnitogorsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Tambov
    • Frequency: Varies
    • Updates: Continuous
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    Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals Titles

    Active titles in Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Periodicals include:

    • Arkheologiia, etnografiia i antropologiia Evrazii (Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии)
    • Aziia i Afrika segodnia (Азия и Африка сегодня)
    • Druzhba narodov (Дружба народов)
    • EKO. Vserossiiskii ekonomicheskii zhurnal (ЭКО. Всероссийский экономический журнал)
    • Etnograficheskoe obozrenie (Этнографическое обозрение)
    • Filosofiia obrazovaniia (Философия образования)
    • Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom (Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом)
    • Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri (Гуманитарные науки в Сибири)
    • Iunost’ (Юность)
    • Latinskaia Amerika (Латинская Америка)
    • Mezhdunarodnye protsessy (Международные процессы)
    • Molodaia gvardiia (Молодая гвардия)
    • Neprikosnovennyi zapas (Неприкосновенный запас)
    • Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (Новое литературное обозрение)
    • Obshchestvo i ekonomika (Общество и экономика)
    • Pedagogika (Педагогика)
    • Problemy istorii, filologii, kul’tury (Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры)
    • Rossiia v global’noi politike (Россия в глобальной политике)
    • Rossiiskaia arkheologiia (Российская археология)
    • Skandinavskaia filologiia (Скандинавская филология)
    • SShA – Kanada. Ekonomika, politika, kul’tura (США – Канада. Экономика, политика, культура)
    • Voprosy ekonomiki (Вопросы экономики)

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  • Russian Thick Journals

    Russian Thick Journals

    Tolstye zhurnaly (толстые журналы), literally meaning “thick journals” in Russian, are a unique form of literary and cultural periodicals that have played a significant role in Russian intellectual life since the 19th century. These journals typically contain:

    • New works of fiction (novels, short stories, poems)
    • Literary criticism and essays
    • Social and political commentary
    • Cultural analysis

    Unlike typical journals, tolstye zhurnaly are book-length publications, often running to several hundred pages per issue. In the Soviet Union and later in Russia, literary and artistic journals with a full volume of 192-256 pages received the informal name “thick journals.”

    Many libraries have physical copies of these journals taking up hundreds of feet of shelf space. Infoteka is digitizing several of these classics, helping to free up valuable library shelf space and giving researchers easier access to these treasures of Russian culture.

    Infoteka currently offers digital archives of nine key tolstye zhurnaly. These digital archives feature full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text. Read below for title information and contact us for information on availability, pricing and trial access.

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    Digital Archives of Russian Thick Journals

    Druzhba Narodov Digital Archive (1939–2025)

    Druzhba Narodov (Дружба народов, Friendship of the Peoples) first appeared in March 1939 as an almanac dedicated to bringing literature from the Soviet republics into a common Russian-language forum. From its earliest issues, the journal’s mission was to introduce readers in Moscow and Leningrad to prose and poetry written in Uzbek, Georgian, Armenian, and other languages of the USSR — always rendered into Russian to foster a sense of shared cultural space. 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.

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    Iunost’ Digital Archive (1955–2025)

    Iunost’ (Юность, Youth) is a literary magazine for family reading highlighting prose, poetry and journalistic writing. Very popular among Soviet intellectual elite, it appealed to a young readership, and contained an impressive poetry section. This publication also featured the significant, and occasionally controversial, works of Akhmatova, Akhmadulina, Okudzhava, Rozhdestvensky, Iskander, Aksyonov, Gladilin, and many others.

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    Molodaia Gvardiia Digital Archive (1922–2025)

    Molodaia Gvardiia (Молодая гвардия, Young  Guard) launched in Moscow in May 1922 under the Central Committee of the  Russian Communist Youth Union. From the start, its mission was both literary and ideological: alongside luminaries like Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Dmitry Furmanov, it published fiction, poetry, and art aimed at boosting literacy and reinforcing revolutionary values. Across every era—from the fervent post-Revolution years and Stalinist pressures through Khrushchev’s Thaw, Brezhnev’s stagnation, perestroika, and into today’s Russian Federation—Molodaia Gvardia has stayed true to promoting Russian patriotism, Orthodox values, and respect for cultural traditions.

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    Moskva Digital Archive (1957–2025)

    Moskva (Москва, Moscow) has consistently published works by contemporary writers, including prose, poetry, journalism, and criticism. Moskva holds particular historical significance as the first publisher of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece “The Master and Margarita” and Nikolai Karamzin’s monumental work “History of the Russian State.” Its pages have featured outstanding works of Russian literature by authors such as Bunin, Sholokhov, and Yulian Semyonov, alongside acclaimed international writers including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.

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    Nash Sovremennik Digital Archive (1933–2025)

    Nash Sovremennik (Наш современник, Our Contemporary), a literary periodical of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, was founded in Moscow in 1956, having evolved from the literary journal Al’manakh (Альманах, Almanac), established by Maxim Gorky (pub. 1933–1955). Published under the auspices of the RSFSR Union of Writers, Nash Sovremennik was a pioneer in finding talent from the Russian glubinka and remote provinces, providing these writers with an important literary platform unavailable elsewhere. Since 1989, the journal has become an important literary and journalistic vehicle for Russian conservatives and traditionalists, attracting such political and literary figures as Gennadi Zyuganov, Nikolay Ryzhkov, Sergey Kara-Murza, Aleksandr Prokhanov, Zakhar Prilepin, and the controversial late Metropolital Ioann (Snychev).

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    Neva Digital Archive (1955–2025)

    Neva (Нева, Neva), throughout its history, has remained faithful to the traditions of Petersburg literary journalism. In every issue users will find a balanced mix of contemporary prose and poetry—alongside tightly documented essays and reviews. Neva’s pages have featured works by such luminaries as Mikhail Zoshchenko, Mikhail Sholokhov, Viktor Kaverin, Lydia Chukovskaya, Lev Gumilev, Dmitry Likhachev, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Dmitry Granin and Viktor Dudintsev, among others. 

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    Oktiabr’ Digital Archive (1924–2018)

    Oktiabr’ (Октябрь, October) served as a crucial platform for both established and emerging voices in Russian literature. Throughout its history, the journal published works by literary giants such as Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Andrei Platonov, alongside international authors including Lion Feuchtwanger, Romain Rolland, and Theodore Dreiser. The archive captures the journal’s evolution from its early years through the Soviet period and into post-Soviet Russia, reflecting the dramatic changes in Russian society and intellectual thought.

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    Znamia Digital Archive (1931–2025)

    Znamia (Знамя, Banner) spans over nine decades and serves as a treasure trove of intellectual and artistic contributions. Originally launched in January 1931 under the name LOKAF (Локаф), an acronym for the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy, the journal was officially rebranded as Znamia in 1933. Throughout its history, Znamia has been a pivotal venue for showcasing the works of preeminent authors such as Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Tvardovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Konstantin Paustovsky, Yuri Kazakov, and Yuri Trifonov.

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    Zvezda Digital Archive (1924–2025)

    Zvezda (Звезда, The Star) has been a key resource of Russian intellectual and literary circles for a century. The journal’s longevity and resilience through tumultuous periods of Soviet history, including the Siege of Leningrad and Stalinist repression, make it an essential resource for understanding the complexities of Russian cultural development over the past century.

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    Novyi Mir Digital Archive (1925–2025)

    Novyi Mir (Новый мир, New World) is a Russian literary magazine that won international fame in the 1960s, when it published Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It became a watershed moment that signaled a brief liberal turn during Khrushchev’s Thaw.  In the late 1980s, as glasnost took hold, Novyi Mir became the first Soviet journal to run previously banned masterpieces—Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, Platonov’s Kotlovan, Orwell’s 1984, and  Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago—sending its circulation soaring to over 2.6 million copies for the January 1990 issue.

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  • Russian National Bibliography

    Russian National Bibliography

    Access to the most comprehensive bibliographic database in Russia.

    The Russian National Bibliography database features bibliographies going back to 1980. Digitally access the most comprehensive bibliographic product of Russian works and search for citations from books, newspapers, journals, dissertation abstracts, musical scores, even maps, with a single keystroke. Effortlessly access nearly five million Russian bibliographic citations in all disciplines from over 21,000 publishers by year, author, subject, title, or any keyword. Users can search in Cyrillic or transliteration to find relevant references.

    The Russian National Bibliography database boasts an updated interface with the following features:

    • Sortable search results by: Publication type, Year, Author, Publisher, Subject location, Subject
    • Auto suggest in search for speedy results in titles, author, and publishers
    • Faceted search for category refinements and source, year, author, publisher, location, subjects
    • Cross-links deliver results according to subject, source, author, and more
    • Save individual records for future reference in My List
    • Export and save TXT and/or RTF for easy use in external documents
    • Exported records are converted in a format closely aligned to MLA standards
    • Product Code: UDB-BIB-RUS
    • Archive: 1998–present (content for Knizhnaia letopis’ available back to 1980)
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Varies
    • Updates: Continuous
    • Format: Customized platform with searchable fields and entries
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    Russian National Bibliography Content

    Users can subscribe to current year access to any individual title or the complete collection of titles found in the Russian National Bibliography database. Access to the backfiles for each title or to the entire Russian National Bibliography archive are available through a one-time purchase.

    Knizhnaia letopis’ (Книжная летопись)

    Formerly Knigi Rossii (Книги России). Simply the most definitive reference guide available to Russian book publications. Also Available: The Knizhnaia letopis’ digital archive back to 1980, featuring approximately 2 million searchable book records.

    Letopis’ gazetnykh statei (Летопись газетных статей)

    Formerly Statii iz rossiiskikh gazet (Статьи из российских газет). More than 40,000 bibliographic entries on documentary materials, articles, and works of fiction from every major newspaper in Russia.

    Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei (Летопись журнальных статей)

    Formerly Statii iz rossiiskikh zhurnalov (Статьи из российских журналов). The complete index to Russian journals.

    Letopis’ retsenzii (Летопись рецензий)

    Formerly Retsenzii iz rossiiskikh izdanii (Рецензии из российских изданий). A profile of book reviews (Russian and foreign) found in the central and regional Russian press.

    Kartograficheskaia letopis’ (Картографическая летопись)

    Formerly Rossiiskie kartograficheskie izdaniia (Российские картографические издания). Bibliographic information for all cartography and maps produced in Russia.

    Letopis’ avtoreferatov dissertatsii (Летопись авторефератов диссертаций)

    Formerly Avtoreferaty dissertatsii (Авторефераты диссертаций). Indexes all synopses of dissertations defended in research and educational establishments in the Russian Federation.

    Notnaia letopis’ (Нотная летопись)

    Formerly Rossiiskie notnye izdaniia (Российские нотные издания). A complete general index to Russian music-related publications.

    Letopis’ izoizdanii (Летопись изоизданий)

    Formerly Rossiiskie izoizdaniia (Российские изоиздания). A bibliographic index of albums, posters and reproductions published either separately or appearing in books, collected works and magazines.

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  • Russian Islamic Studies

    Russian Islamic Studies

    Key publications from Russia’s Muslim populations.

    More than 10% of Russia’s population is Muslim. This makes Islam the second most widely professed religion in Russia. Online access is now available to this large and influential community’s most important publications through the Russian Islamic Studies database, which offers a selection of journals and newspapers published in Moscow, Grozny and Makhachkala, among others. This unique collection covers activities of Islamic organizations in Russia and abroad, political and economic developments in the Muslim regions of Russia, the state of Islamic education in Russia, and more. The database is updated regularly with current issues, but also has an archive, with some content going back as far as 2004.

    • Product Code: UDB-ISL
    • Archive: 2004–present
    • Language: Bashkir, Chechen, Russian, Tatar
    • Country: Russia
    • Cities: Grozny, Makhachkala, Moscow, Nizhnii Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Ufa
    • Frequency: Varies
    • Updates: Continuous
    • Format: PDF, article-based
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    Russian Islamic Studies Titles

    Active titles in Russian Islamic Studies include:

    As-Salam (Ас-Салам)

    Bi-weekly (24 issues per year), published in Makhachkala, archive from 2018–present. Newspaper of the Religious Board of Moslims of Dagestan.

    Zori Islama (Зори Ислама, Dawns of Islam)

    Bi-weekly (104 issues per year), published in Grozny, archive from 2018–present. Chechen religious and educational newspaper.

    Islam v sovremennom mire (Ислам в современном мире, Islam in the Modern World)

    Quarterly, published in Moscow, archive from 2007–present. An important publication by the respected MEDINA publishing house in Russia. Focuses on issues of Islamic studies in Russia, CIS, Europe and Middle East. Articles cover a wide range of topics, such as Islamophobia, Muslim organizations in the world, the “Arab Spring” and its political consequences in the Middle East, issues of demography, integration, and labor market in Islamic countries, policies of Western states towards Islamic states, and much more.

    Islamovedenie (Исламоведение, Islamic Studies)

    Quarterly, published in Makhachkala, archive from 2009–present. The first collection of research and theoretical papers on the issues of Islam published in the Russian Federation. The primary goal of the journal is providing the readers with unbiased information on Islam and various forms of its existence. Content is published under the following headings: history of Islam, Islam and society, doctrinal theology and cult of Islam, Islam and law, Islam and politics, comparative religious studies, anthropology of Islam, Islam and culture, Islam and philosophy, Islam and world view, Islam in contemporary world, Islam and natural science, Islam and ecology, Islam in Russia, sociology of Islam, Islam and Sufism, and academic life.

    Islamskaia mysl’: traditsiia i sovremennost’ (Исламская мысль: традиция и современность, Islamic Thought: Tradition and Modernity)

    Annual, published in Moscow, archive from 2016–present. Devoted to a wide range of philosophical, historical and theological topics. Focused on the study of classical and post-classical Arab-Muslim philosophy in a comparative context and the development of Muslim thought in our time.

    Minaret Islama (Минарет Ислама, Minaret of Islam

    Quarterly, published in Nizhnii Novgorod, archive from 2004–present. From the respected MEDINA publishing house in Russia, a journal for the researchers of Islam and Islamic Studies. Authors include leading Islamic scholars, political and religious figures of Russia, as well as foreign experts on the subject.

    Minbar Islama (Минбар Ислама, Islam Tribune)

    Monthly, published in Moscow, archive from 2012–present. A pan-Russian newspaper for Muslims published by the respected MEDINA publishing house. The official newspaper of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims Living in the European Part of Russia (DUMER), it features news of the DUMER, reports on the activity of the Council of Muftis of Russia, statements and sermons of the Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, interviews with the leading scholars of Islam from Russia and abroad, and content on general Islamic news, life, and studies.

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  • Russian Institute of Social Sciences Publications

    Russian Institute of Social Sciences Publications

    Journals, review journals, and bibliographies from a leading Russian research center.

    Russian Institute of Social Sciences Publications includes a number of publications from the renowned Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION). Created in 1969 as a successor to the Russian Academy’s Fundamental Library of Social Sciences, INION is a well-known center for research in social studies and humanities in Russia. Russian Institute of Social Sciences Publications presents all periodical publications of the institute, as well as reference indexes, bibliographies, and analytical reports, from 2018 on.

    • Product Code: UDB-INION
    • Archive: 2018–present
    • Language: Russian; two titles in English
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency: Varies
    • Updates: Continuous
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    Bibliographic Indexes

    Novaia literatura po sotsial’nym i gumanitarnym naukam. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’. (Новая литература по социальным и гуманитарным наукам. Библиографический указатель.)

    • Arkheologiia. Etnologiia (Археология. Этнология)
    • Deponirovannye nauchnye raboty (Депонированные научные работы)
    • Ekonomika (Экономика)
    • Filosofiia i sotsiologiia (Философия и социология)
    • IAzykoznanie (Языкознание)
    • Istoriia (История)
    • Kul’turologiia (Культурология)
    • Literaturovedenie (Литературоведение)
    • Naukovedenie (Науковедение)
    • Pravovedenie, politologiia (Правоведение, политология)
    • Religiovedenie (Религиоведение)

    Social Sciences Journals

    • Aktual’nye problemy Evropy (Актуальные проблемы Европы)
    • Aktual’nye voprosy teorii i praktiki perevoda (Актуальные вопросы теории и практики перевода)
    • Blizhnii i Postsovetskii Vostok (Ближний и Постсоветский Восток)
    • Chelovek: Obraz i sushchnost’. Gumanitarnye aspekty (Человек: Образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты)
    • Ekonomicheskie i sotsial’nye problemy Rossii (Экономические и социальные проблемы России)
    • Etnopsikholingvistika (Этнопсихолингвистика)
    • Evropeiskaia bezopasnost’: sobytiia, otsenki, prognozy (Европейская безопасность: события, оценки, прогнозы)
    • Kontury global’nykh transformatsii: politika, ekonomika, pravo (Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право)
    • Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal (Литературоведческий журнал)
    • Naukovedcheskie issledovaniia (Науковедческие исследования)
    • Politicheskaia nauka (Политическая наука)
    • Postkolonializm i sovremennost’ (Постколониализм и современность)
    • Rossiia i musul’manskii mir (Россия и мусульманский мир)
    • Rossiia i sovremennyi mir (Россия и современный мир)
    • Russia and the Moslem World
    • Social Novelties & Social Sciences
    • Sotsial’nye novatsii i sotsial’nye nauki (Социальные новации и социальные науки)
    • Vestnik kul’turologii (Вестник культурологии)

    Social Science Review Journals

    Sotsial’nye i gumanitarnye nauki. Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia literatura. Referativnyi zhurnal. (Социальные и гуманитарные науки. Отечественная и зарубежная литература. Реферативный журнал.)

    • Seriia 3. Filosofiia (Серия 3. Философия)
    • Seriia 4. Gosudarstvo i pravo (Серия 4. Государство и право)
    • Seriia 5. Istoriia (Серия 5. История)
    • Seriia 6. IAzykoznanie (Серия 6. Языкознание)
    • Seriia 7. Literaturovedenie (Серия 7. Литературоведение)
    • Seriia 9. Vostokovedenie i afrikanistika (Серия 9. Востоковедение и африканистика)
    • Seriia 11. Sotsiologiia (Серия 11. Социология)
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  • Rubezh Digital Archive

    Rubezh Digital Archive

    Rare émigré magazine published by the Russian diaspora in Harbin, China.

    Published in Harbin from 1926 to 1945, Rubezh (Рубеж, The Frontier) was founded by publisher Evgenii Kaufman and supported by correspondents in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. As the only comprehensive record of Russian émigré intellectual and cultural life in Harbin, the most important center of Russian émigrés in East Asia, it quickly became the best-known periodical of “Russian Manchuria.” With its readable style and broad scope, Rubezh is a valuable resource for researchers in Russian emigration studies, East Asian history, media and film studies, fashion history, and transnational cultural exchange.

    In the beginning of the 20th century the town of Harbin in China was a very special place for the Russian diaspora. Built around the Chinese Eastern Railway, it provided unusual legal and economic freedoms. That position drew waves of Russians (professionals, refugees from the Soviet reach, clergy, etc.). They built schools, churches, theaters and printed media in Harbin, of which Rubezh was the main publication.

    The journal’s dense photo-reportage and accessible prose recorded everyday life and major events in Harbin and Manchuria – including floods, the Japanese entry into Harbin in 1932, culture and sport, church processions, and visits by stars from Shaliapin to Vertinsky – offering a meticulous record of early-twentieth-century Sino-Russian relations and diaspora culture. After the Red Army entered China, the journal was shut down, and its staff and many contributors were arrested and deported to the USSR.

    The Rubezh Digital Archive contains all 862 published issues, offering scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title. The archive delivers high-resolution page images with OCR across articles and captions, enabling word-level search, tracking of recurring features, and tracing of brand names, business networks, and film titles across years. The archive is also cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    The archive was made possible through the support of the University of Hawai‘i (Patricia Polansky), the National Library of the Czech Republic (Slavonic Library, Lukáš Babka), libraries and archives in Russia, and many individual contributors.

    • Product Code: DA-RUB
    • Year First Published: 1926
    • Archive: 1926–1945
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: China
    • City: Harbin
    • Frequency: Weekly
    • Format: PDF, page-based
    • Producer: Infoteka
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  • Problemy Kitaia Digital Archive

    Problemy Kitaia Digital Archive

    Soviet journal supporting the Chinese Revolution.

    Founded in 1929 under the aegis of the Scientific-Research Institute on China, Problemy Kitaia (Проблемы Китая, Issues in Chinese Studies) was the pre-WWII Soviet Union’s preeminent scholarly journal dedicated to the social-scientific study of China until its closure in 1935. Coinciding with the setbacks suffered by the Chinese Communist Party during the height of the Civil War that ravaged the country in the late 1920s, the journal had come to see itself as an ideological bulwark at the service of the Bolshevik Revolution generally and the Chinese Revolution in particular.

    Its mission and trajectory were made clear in the first issue when the editors wrote that the principal aim of their publication was to provide “powerful assistance in the work of the theoretical defense of the Chinese Revolution … [and] become a unified platform for all Marxist-Leninist scholars of China who are busy waging a relentless campaign against [intellectual] currents hostile to Bolshevism.” Further, the journal’s editors declared, “being the theoretical organ of the militant Marxist-Leninist Sinology, our journal is called upon to render ideological aid to the Chinese Communist Party for the purpose of raising the general Marxist level of the movement, and for developing a Marxism-Leninism rooted in [and congruent with] Chinese realities.” To achieve its stated aims the journal was committed to the research and the analysis of economic, social, cultural, and political problems facing China from a distinctly Marxist-Leninist viewpoint and situated within a distinctly Chinese social and political environment.

    Although the journal’s ideological commitments were never in doubt, it did not mean that it was restricted to producing Communist propaganda or apologia with limited scholarly value. Its historical and broader social-scientific studies of China were in many ways groundbreaking, existing ideological or thematic restrictions notwithstanding. Problemy Kitaia offers researchers a rare perspective of Russian-language scholarship on a critical period of China’s history as it underwent a range a social, cultural, economic and political changes.

    The Problemy Kitaia Digital Archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this short-lived, but important title, comprising 14 issues (some of them combined issues), 195 articles, and over 3,250 pages. The archive features full page-level digitization and complete original graphics. The journal is in Russian but includes tables of contents in both Russian and English. The archive has searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.

    • Product Code: DA-PK
    • Year First Published: 1929
    • Archive: 1929–1935
    • Language: Russian
    • Country: Russia
    • City: Moscow
    • Frequency:
      Irregular
    • Format: PDF, article-based
    • Producer: Infoteka
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