Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2021.1878593
Hee-Gwone Yoo
ABSTRACT This checklist includes illustrated plate books and original photographs of militaria (officers, uniforms, armories, and weapons) held by the Slavic and East European collections of the New York Public Library and the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. It includes, for example, such spectacular rarities as Hoover’s Von Etter album (item 72), bound in a sterling silver binding and containing photographs as well as autographs of the officers.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1844373
Jon C. Giullian
Welcome to Slavic & East European Information Resources, volume 21, numbers 3–4, a thematic issue that celebrates the 100 Anniversary of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives (HILA). As with many of SEEIR’s thematic issues, this issue grew out of a series of presentations at the 2019 Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. These presentations were part of two panels organized by Edward Kasinec, the first panel being “The Hoover Library and Archives at 100: A Glance to the Past,” which addressed “ . . . how these diverse collections were formed, the many personalities who were responsible for their acquisition, and the readers and visitors that were enriched by these holdings.” Papers from this panel examined the “pre-history of the Hoover Library and Archives, the evolution of its pre-War collecting interests, and the stories of the early, lesserknown curators and bibliographers.” Participants on the second panel, “The Hoover Library and Archives at 100: Today and the Future,” described current and future initiatives.” As many readers of the journal know, Slavic & East European Information Resources (SEEIR) has a strong tradition of publishing special thematic issues. Volume 21, numbers 3–4 follows in that tradition. The value of these thematic issues lies precisely in bringing together, into one convenient space, a body of scholarship on dedicated topics from experts in their specific fields. In the past, special thematic issues in SEEIR have addressed specific regions, disciplines, library holdings, archives, digital initiatives, and instructional methodologies. The tradition began with the inaugural first volume published in 2001, in which Michael Biggins edited a double issue (Volume 1, Numbers 2–3) dedicated to publishing trends in selected countries of the former Yugoslavia (i.e. Slovenia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosova/Kosovo, and Macedonia). Other special issues have included the following:
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1844381
Elena S. Danielson
ABSTRACT The artist and art historian Countess Eva Callimaki-Catargi is best known as the subject for two magnificent oil paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour, one painting located in Brussels and the other in Otterlo outside of Amsterdam. Few of the museum visitors viewing these portraits realize that the person depicted in them was a significant presence in French, Russian and Romanian art circles during the Belle Époque in Paris. Traces of her remarkable and distinguished life can be found at Stanford University, in the Hoover Institution Archives, in materials donated by the family of her son, the Russian diplomat Nicolas de Basily.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1844385
Erik R. Scott
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1844377
S. Ertz
ABSTRACT For more than eighty years, the collection of the Hoover Institution Library grew as part of an ambitious endeavor to preserve literature, materials, and fugitive documents on wars, revolutions, and their consequences. Today, the collection retains a wealth of diverse, often rare, and sometimes still only superficially explored publications on crucial themes in twentieth-century European and Russian/Soviet history. This article highlights key characteristics of the collection and outlines various perspectives from which it is still of high interest to users. Also discussed are the collection’s structure and organization as well as past, present, and future issues of access and discovery.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1844380
Hee-Gwone Yoo, E. Kasinec
ABSTRACT This note reports on an ongoing project by the compilers to create a census of Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European documentary photographs at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. At this stage in this multi-year effort, the census numbers more than 300 pages and is presently organized in the following manner: Russian/Soviet and East European collection entries (listing an extraordinary 380 collections containing photographs) and four appendices: 1. Recent Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European increments to the photographic collections [9 collections] ; 2. collections microfilmed by Hoover from the Museum of Russian Culture (MRK) in San Francisco and the Holy Trinity Seminary (now Russian History Foundation, Jordanville, N.Y.) [57 collections]; 3. an index of photographic albums [50 collections, containing a total of 161 albums]; and 4. a sampling of photography albums from the Art Vault of the Hoover Library. While there are plans to make the full census available to the scholarly public in the near future, this note reproduces only the index of separately compiled albums (number 3 above), as well as a limited number of thumbnail sample images from some of the more important albums reviewed from sight.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1756847
D. Chroust
ABSTRACT Ethnocentrism affects perception and choices, and scholars, teachers, and students may not see or seek the “global” in our “global information revolution,” especially in such vast monolingual social spaces as the United States and the Anglophone world. Russia illuminates how unfortunate this state of affairs is because perceptions of Russia are so negative; whereas online information and open access there are so plentiful. Elibrary.ru offers free, full-text access to Russia’s periodical scholarship in all disciplines. Postnauka.ru is a lecture platform for Russian academics that rivals TED Talks in scale and production quality. Kul’tura is a federal television channel devoted entirely to education. Academic talk shows constitute part of the programming there and elsewhere. High-quality and reliable online tools such as these can enhance “Western” scholars’ and educators’ resource repertoires.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1757001
M. Young
Ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the field of heraldry (geral’dika) in Russia has enjoyed a period of renewed interest. Although the field as an academic and intellectual pursuit beg...
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1757109
Jon C. Giullian
Welcome to the combined issue of Slavic & East European Information Resources (SEEIR), Volume 21, Issues 1–2. This issue marks several changes in editorship, which commenced on January 1, 2020. The new Editor is Jon C. Giullian, Librarian for Slavic & Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. SEEIR also welcomes Brendan Nieubuurt (Librarian for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan) as the section editor of The Internet column; and two co-editors of the In Our Libraries column, Ksenya Kiebuzinski (Slavic Resources Coordinator, University of Toronto) and Christine Jacobsn (Assistant Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Harvard University). Thanks to Janet Crayne (retired Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Librarian, University of Michigan) and Anna Arays (Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, Yale University), who continue as the editors for the Memoirs column and Book Reviews section, respectively. I would like to express appreciation to the former Editor, Dan M. Pennell (Bibliographer for Russian, East European, Germanic and Global Studies, University of Pittsburgh), for his service in leading the journal through a period of transition and ongoing contraction of the field of librarianship for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Dan followed in the footsteps of Karen Rondestvedt (retired Curator for Slavic & East European Collections, Stanford University), who was instrumental in founding the journal in 2000 and served as its Editor from 2001–2016. The impact of Karen’s contribution to our field cannot be overstated. The prospect of serving as the next SEEIR Editor was daunting tome, and the process of working through my first regular issue has not disappointed in this respect; and yet, I am grateful for the challenge this new role offers, for the opportunity to serve in a capacity that stretches my abilities, and for the chance to give back to the field that has given so much to me. I am grateful especially to Dan Pennell, who has guided me through the initial stages of my term of service and for answering my many questions. I would like to thank all of the section editors, who have been so prompt and professional in editing their columns. This issue of the journal would not be possible without their dedicated service. I would also like to thank everyone who submitted manuscripts to the journal and especially to those whose contributions comprise this issue. Their patience during the transition period and their perseverance with themany editorial suggestions are appreciated. And finally, I would like to thank all of you, the readers of this journal for your continual support. Without you, there would be no reason for the journal to exist. So without further ado, I present to you the latest issue of Slavic & East European Information Resources, Volume 21, Issues 1–2 for 2020. This issue consists of two historical articles, two descriptions of library collections, a report on Russian digi
欢迎阅读《斯拉夫与东欧信息资源》(SEEIR)第21卷第1-2期合刊。这一期标志着自2020年1月1日起编辑的几次变动。新的编辑是Jon C. giulian，堪萨斯大学斯拉夫和欧亚研究图书馆馆长。SEEIR还欢迎Brendan nieuburt(密歇根大学斯拉夫，东欧和欧亚研究图书馆馆长)担任互联网专栏的部分编辑;以及“在我们的图书馆”专栏的两位共同编辑，Ksenya Kiebuzinski(多伦多大学斯拉夫资源协调员)和Christine jacobn(哈佛大学现代书籍和手稿助理馆长)。感谢Janet Crayne(退休的密歇根大学斯拉夫、东欧和欧亚研究馆员)和Anna Arays(耶鲁大学斯拉夫和东欧研究馆员)，她们分别继续担任回忆录专栏和书评部分的编辑。我要向前主编丹·m·彭内尔(匹兹堡大学俄语、东欧、日耳曼和全球研究书目编纂者)表示感谢，感谢他领导杂志度过了一段过渡时期和斯拉夫、东欧和欧亚研究图书馆学领域的持续收缩。Dan追随了Karen Rondestvedt(斯坦福大学斯拉夫和东欧馆藏退休策展人)的脚步，Karen Rondestvedt于2000年创办了该杂志，并于2001年至2016年担任其编辑。凯伦的贡献对我们这个领域的影响怎么强调都不为过。担任下一任《SEEIR》编辑的前景让我望而生畏，在这方面，我第一次定期出版的过程并没有让我失望;然而，我很感激这个新角色带来的挑战，感谢有机会发挥我的能力，感谢有机会回报这个给予我很多的领域。我特别感谢丹·彭内尔，他在我任职的最初阶段指导了我，并回答了我的许多问题。我要感谢所有的栏目编辑，他们在编辑专栏时如此迅速和专业。如果没有他们的服务，这期杂志是不可能出版的。我还要感谢所有向杂志投稿的人，特别是那些为本期杂志做出贡献的人。他们在过渡时期的耐心和对许多编辑建议的坚持是值得赞赏的。最后，我要感谢你们所有人，这本杂志的读者，你们一直以来的支持。没有你，这本日记就没有存在的理由。所以，话不多说，我向您介绍最新一期的斯拉夫和东欧信息资源，第21卷，第1-2期，2020年。本期包括两篇历史文章、两篇图书馆馆藏描述、一篇关于俄罗斯网络数字媒体的报告、一篇回忆录和两篇书评。文章部分以Ksenya Kiebuzinski在多伦多大学的斯拉夫和东欧收藏的历史开始。基布津斯基追溯了大学图书馆斯拉夫和东欧资料收藏的演变，从图书馆“大火”的灰烬开始，到1948年冷战“深度冻结”开始，当时该大学收到了许多关于该地区的礼物中的前三本。这篇文章借鉴了多伦多大学档案中保存的大量文件，如入库分类账、图书馆和大学管理人员的信件、报告、通讯和年鉴;此外还有当地报纸和斯拉夫和东欧信息资源2020,VOL. 21, no .1 - 2,1 - 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2020.1757109的文章
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2020.1756982
E. Rogatchevskaia
Ephemera, by definition, are not designed to last and be preserved. Libraries and archives are still struggling to collect contemporary ephemeral material, as it requires physical and intellectual effort to find, evaluate and select what might become an invaluable resource for future historians. Moreover, ephemera are a nightmare to catalog and to conserve. However, any scholar would agree that ephemera offer a vast and unpredictable supply of facts, opinions and views. Hitherto, collecting ephemera has been mainly the passion and mission of private collectors. For example, one of the most famous collections of ephemera – the 2,200 bound volumes of French Revolutionary tracts now held at the British Library – had been first put together by the politician and writer John Wilson Croker and only later was acquired as historical rather than contemporary material. Visual products of popular and mass culture in general and picture postcards in particular are in an even worse situation. Until recently they had been overlooked as a historical source by both librarians and researchers, as Alison Rowley states, “certainly in Russian history, but also in European history more generally”. While “the wartime postcard was rediscovered by scholars in Germany and Austria in the 1980s”, the Russian 20-century postcard has only recently started attracting the attention of researchers, who complain that “[t]oday, a large number of Russian postcards remain in private hands rather than in public collections maintained by libraries and archives”. The book by Tobie Mathew is an ideal response to this omission. In the Prologue he explains that the book “owes its existence to [his] collecting habits” (20). Thus, the book presents a thorough examination of a vast number of revolutionary postcards with opposition imagery and brings together material from the author’s own and other private collections, as well as collections held at various libraries, museums and archives, such as the Museum of Contemporary History and the Russian State Library. Moreover, the angle Mathew decided to choose is original. Leaving aside most of the pictorial analysis, he sets himself the task of focusing on production. The amount of new archival research done largely in the Russian archives, but also at the Hoover Institution on War (Stanford), the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), the Leeds Russian Archive and the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine (Kyiv), allows the author to tell a comprehensive story of how postcards with political images were made, censored and distributed and what role they played in creating the opposition discourse.
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