Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2146621
Bogdan Horbal
ABSTRACT The NYPL’s Latvian collection is one of the largest in North America. Herman Rosenthal, the first chief of the Slavonic Division, was born in what is now Latvia and laid a solid foundation for this collection. In the 1920s and 1930s, the NYPL had an exchange partnership with the Latvian State Library. The Library also holds Latvian materials published during post World War II years, both from the Communist-dominated homeland and those printed in the West. At present, the NYPL is the lead library when it comes to the development of the Latvian collection within the framework of ReCAP cooperative collection development.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2112003
G. A. Spencer
ABSTRACT The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recently acquired several collections of material related to Russian and Soviet relations with Japan in the first half of the twentieth century with an emphasis on the Russo-Japanese War period. The original artifacts are held in our Special Collections and are viewable in person upon request. Selected materials have been digitized by our Digital Collections Center and the digital surrogates are available online. This collection continues to actively grow as bibliographers and special collections staff acquire new and relevant materials from a variety of sources.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2105190
Kristen A. Regina
ABSTRACT This essay is a contextualization and survey of the library and archives of Christian Brinton (1870–1942), donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1941. A promised gift of 1,300 books and 1,000 pamphlets, there were also 550 objects including more than one hundred fifty paintings, seventy-five works on paper, sculpture, folk toys, costumes, and textiles. An internationally renowned art critic, curator, and lecturer, Brinton’s expertise ranged from American and European, to Central and Eastern European, Scandinavian, Russian, and Soviet modern art, all of which is reflected in his library. The archives contain documentation about his collections at the museum.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2105188
Liladhar R. Pendse
ABSTRACT The implosion of the USSR in December 1991 was a relatively peaceful process that led to the creation of multiple new states. However, except for the transitional decade of the 90s, and with several frozen conflicts, the new states that emerged in the post-Soviet space embarked upon “a peaceful authoritarian democratic” reimagining of independence. Some have even admired the peaceful destruction of the USSR in comparison to Yugoslavia’s violent disintegration. However, the narrative about the peaceful secessions does not provide an authentic glimpse of what was yet to come almost thirty years later. Until the 2020 protests against President Lukashenko’s dubious victory, Belarus was relatively “calm,” with a blended economic system reminiscent of elements from the Communist past. The present article discusses how at UC Berkeley Library we archived peaceful protests in Belarus from August of 2020-through March of 2021.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2105187
Rita Lyons Kindlerova
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to illustrate with five exemplar printed books the nature of books published by, or for, Old Believers in the small town of Klintsy in the Starodub frontier region. All of these books form part of the Slavonic Library’s collection in Prague. Using theoretical insights from a social mechanism and the concepts of textual community and graphosphere combined with a multimethod methodology this article demonstrates how deliberately anonymized Old Believer books can be systematically studied in the field of Slavic librarianship with the purpose of providing enhanced consultancy services to students and scholars.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2112878
Jon C. Giullian
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2105191
E. Kasinec
ABSTRACT Kasinec’s brief note describes two unique photographic albums depicting Sub-Carpathian Rus’ during the period 1919–1923. Both albums go far in documenting the shifting borders and populations of Sub-Carpathian Rus’ during four politically fraught years. They also evidence the use of political use of photography by Czechs to “lay claim” to the newly incorporated lands and peoples of Sub-Carpathian Rus’.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2114199
Ostap Kin
A bibliography, in addition to being an extremely useful reference tool, can also represent the celebration of a person – be they a scholar, researcher, or writer. Having one edition of such a bibliography is already a particular achievement and an instance of recognition. Having several editions of a bibliography, continuously revised and expanded, is a genuine rarity. Such is the case with Paul Robert Magocsi, professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto and an authority on Ukrainian and Carpatho-Rusyn history. Edited by Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Paul Robert Magocsi: A Bibliography and Commentaries, serves as an exhaustive presentation of the renowned scholar and his substantial corpus of scholarly legacy. The volume under review is scrupulously edited and expanded since its latest 2011 edition. In its new, fourth iteration, the volume begins with the editor’s preface, which is followed by introductions from three previous editions: by Bohdan Budowowycz (1985), John-Paul Himka (2000), and Kiebuzinski (2010). These introductions are, in a sense, a barometer of the historian’s passionate engagement with his multifaceted scholarly interests. Each introduction sheds light on biographical and professional aspects of Magocsi’s life and activity and covers a little over a decade of the scholar’s thriving intellectual trajectory. Magocsi’s scholarly contributions are fascinating in their wide range and scope. The bibliography lists 878 publications, in twenty-one languages, spanning the period from 1964 to early 2021 (p. 1–156) in the fields of history, sociolinguistics, ethnic studies bibliography, and cartography – including his contributions to bibliography, cartography, encyclopedias, and historical guides. Not only are publications listed, but so are the references to reviews of monographs. The first chapter lists eighty writings (books, articles, and encyclopedia entries) about Paul Robert Magocsi (p. 157–166) and is followed by “Commentaries in Periodicals and in the Media” (p. 167–278). The entries provide quotes from various writings about, and reviews of, Magocsi’s work. Additionally, the book features facsimiles of book covers for projects Magocsi was involved with, in multiple languages; including works published in English and in translation. When possible, the cover designer’s name is listed; a minor, yet significant detail. Of special mention is a short statistical note which includes five best-selling works by Magocsi. A cluster of articles dedicated to the legacy of professor Magocsi appeared in the Nationalities Papers in 2011. Contributors complimented the historian’s scholarly virtues and intellectual courage, mixed with his personal necessity and ever-present urgency to serve the profession and broaden the field. In one of the papers, Alexander J. Motyl summoned:
参考书目，除了是一个非常有用的参考工具之外，还可以代表一个人的庆祝活动-无论他们是学者，研究人员还是作家。拥有这样一个参考书目的一个版本已经是一个特殊的成就和认可的例子。有几个版本的参考书目，不断修订和扩展，是一个真正的罕见。多伦多大学(University of Toronto)历史与政治学教授、乌克兰和喀尔巴阡山脉历史权威保罗·罗伯特·马戈西(Paul Robert Magocsi)就是这样的例子。编辑Ksenya Kiebuzinski，保罗·罗伯特·马戈西:参考书目和评论，作为一个详尽的介绍著名的学者和他的学术遗产的实质性语料库。自2011年的最新版本以来，本书经过了严格的编辑和扩充。在其新的第四版中，本书以编辑的序言开始，随后是前三个版本的介绍:Bohdan Budowowycz (1985)， John-Paul Himka(2000)和Kiebuzinski(2010)。从某种意义上说，这些介绍是历史学家对其多方面学术兴趣的热情参与的晴雨表。每一篇引言都阐明了马格西生平和职业方面的生活和活动，并涵盖了这位学者十多年来蓬勃发展的智力轨迹。马格西的学术贡献范围之广、范围之广令人着迷。参考书目列出了从1964年到2021年初的21种语言的878种出版物(第1-156页)，涉及历史、社会语言学、民族研究目录学和制图学领域，包括他对目录学、制图学、百科全书和历史指南的贡献。不仅列出了出版物，而且还列出了专著评论的参考文献。第一章列出了关于保罗·罗伯特·马古西的80篇著作(书籍、文章和百科全书条目)(第157-166页)，随后是“期刊和媒体评论”(第167-278页)。这些条目提供了各种关于Magocsi作品的文章和评论。此外，这本书还包括Magocsi参与的项目的书籍封面的复印件，用多种语言;包括以英文出版和翻译的作品。在可能的情况下，列出封面设计师的名字;一个小而重要的细节。特别值得一提的是一个简短的统计说明，其中包括马格西的五部最畅销的作品。2011年，《民族报》(Nationalities Papers)发表了一系列关于马格西教授遗产的文章。撰稿人们称赞这位历史学家的学术美德和智力勇气，以及他个人的需要和始终存在的为专业服务和拓宽研究领域的紧迫性。在其中一份文件中，亚历山大·j·莫蒂尔召集道:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2105189
Eduard Baryshev
ABSTRACT This paper examines the character, structure, and fate of the archive of the Russian military attaché in Japan. This investigation describes the multidimensional and complex nature of the archive, incorporating several independent volumes of documents associated mostly with activities surrounding Russian supply commissions in Japan from 1914 to 1921. The author highlights the crucial role of the Russian All-Military Union in saving the historical records of the Russian Army and emphasizes that these activities, ignored until now in the description of existing collections, constitute an important contextual background of the archive that symbolically reflects the drama of Russian postrevolutionary epoch.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2022.2091970
John Van Oudenaren
ABSTRACT In the late 1990s, the Library of Congress under the leadership of Librarian of Congress James H. Billington launched an innovative digital library project, Meeting of Frontiers, built around the theme of the parallel experiences of the American West and the Russian Far East and Siberia and the meeting of the frontiers in Alaska. The project flourished until 2005, and digitized rare collections at more than thirty libraries and archives in Russia and the United States. The project was left unfinished, however, as funding ran out and the Library shifted to new priorities, including the development of a World Digital Library (WDL). In 2016–2018, a small group of Library staff members, faced with the likelihood that both WDL and Frontiers would be shut down in the post-Billington era, mounted a successful effort to save the remarkable Frontiers content for permanent use by researchers and general users.
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