HIST 135R: Senior Seminar in Russian/Soviet Modern History (Edgar, Spring 2025): Recommended Primary Source Databases

• MOMW Part I (1450-1850): The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection with works on pre-Marxian socialism, trade, and commerce.
• MOMW Part II (1851-1914): Documents the birth of the modern corporation and the political and social conditions of nineteenth-century workers, factory owners, and national economies.
• MOMW Part III (1890-1945): Sourced from the Senate House Library at the University of London and covers general political and philosophical thought of the period.
• MOMW Part IV (1800–1890): Covers the Victorian period.

Collections are arranged into 8 subject modules:

• Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle
• Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War
• Women's Studies
• Workers, Labor Unions, and Radical Politics
• American Indians and the American West
• American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate
• International Relations and Military Conflicts
• Revolutionary War and Early America
• Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration
• American Federation of Labor: Samuel Gompers Era Records,1877-1937
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 3 

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Cross-searchable with Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991) and Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010)

Cross-searchable with Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010) and Current Digest of the Russian Press (2011-present)

• Module I covers from 1850-1927
• Module II from 1928-1949

Also includes two e-book editions (full-text searchable) of pertinent reference books: an in-depth bibliographic record of all known newspapers published in Imperial Russia (over 10 key bibliographies) and a unique collection of dozens of contemporaneous (mostly nineteenth century) reference works offering detailed subject bibliographies of the articles appearing in the specific newspapers of the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection.

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection was made possible thanks to the active support of the National Library of Russia. Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

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