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Russia (Moscow/St. Petersburg):
Course Guide

This guide is for students taking courses for the Moscow/St. Petersburg trip: Spring 2007.
If you need any further assistance, please ask at the library front desk.

General:
Books/Subject Headings:
(click to be taken to the catalog)

1. In the Catalog, choose "LC Heading" from drop down menu next to search box
2. Copy the entire phrase as printed here

Russia:
Art, Russian
Art Russia (Federation)
Art, Russian Russia (Federation) Moscow
Communism and society Russia (Federation)
Investments, Foreign Government policy Russia (Federation)
Political leadership Russia (Federation)
Post-communism Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) Commercial policy
Russia (Federation) Commerce
Russia (Federation) Foreign relations United States
Russia (Federation) Politics and government
Russia (Federation) Social conditions
Russia (Federation) Social policy
Russia (Federation) Economic conditions
Russia (Federation) Economic policy
Russia Ethnic relations
Russian Literature
Theater Russia
Urban Policy Russia (Federation)

Moscow:
Moscow (Russia) History
Moscow (Russia) Politics and government
Mosco (Russia) Social Conditions

St. Petersburg:
Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Art
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Cultural policy
Saint Petersburg (Russia) History

VIDEOS:

Documentary:

Andrei Rublev. (1992)
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.

Artists of the 20th century. (2004)
Biography of artist Wassily Kandinsky accompanied by images of his greatest works.

Breaking free of the earth Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935. (1990)
Based on the exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 1989. This program documents the exhibition and allows Malevich to reveal his own story, providing viewers with analyses and commentary on his work that is vivid, precise and personal.

Chagall. (1985)
Explores the life and work of Marc Chagall.

Coming of age ethnographic profiles from a global perspective. (2005)
A global collage of adolescence represented by young people from 6 different countries - China, Malaysia, Russia, Uganda, Dominican Republic, and Canada's Baffin Island - and how their coming of age is interpreted by their culture.

The face of Russia. (1998)
Explores the art and culture of Russia in a journey across history, encompassing Russia's architecture, paintings, music, literature and cinema. Part 1 examines icon painting, the first Russian art form, and reveals the spiritual ideas that have animated Russia for 1000 years, and witnesses recent restorations of churches and monasteries from Kiev to the Kremlin. Part 2 examines Russian architecture from Eastern-inspired onion domes to Western-type palaces. Also looks at the work of Gogol who revealed the human suffering behind Russia's facade. His Dead Souls inspired 19th-century radicals and Soviet dissidents, and continues to influence Russian artists today. Part 3 explores Russian music and cinema and looks at how new media forms are shaping Russia today. Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov dramatized the conflict between power and the people. Sergei Eisentsein retold history with silent films of such power that they became more real than actual events.

Free our planet of nuclear weapons for our town, ocean and motherland. (1995)
Host Elicia Funatsu travels to the United States, Japan, the former Soviet Union and the Marshall Islands interviewing people whose lives have been affected by nuclear warfare and nuclear weapons testing. Background information about government knowledge of health hazards and Cold War ideology is provided by historian Gar Alperovitz and others.

Homage to Chagall. (1987)
Portrait of Russian painter Marc Chagall, with photographs of over

Matisse centennial at the Grand Palais. (1998)
A timeless classic, this is the only film record of the historic Matisse exhibition in Paris in 1970. It covers practically all of his oeuvre, including important, rarely seen work on loan from Russian collections at the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage. The film also features live footage of Matisse at work on his design for the Chapel of Venice. Pierre Schneider, noted Matisse scholar and author of "Matisse", both curated the exhibition and narrated this film.

Riverdance. the show. (1996)
Presents a live performance of Irish dance and music, with American, Spanish, and Russian performers as well.

Rural Russia. (1998)
Country life--Russia (Federation)

Russian avant garde a romance with the Revolution. (2003)
" This program documents the achievements of the Russian avant-garde movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution, which at first nurtured modern art as an emblem of communist culture and then banned it in favor of socialist realism"--Container.

Feature Films:

Battleship Potemkin. (1991)
Recounts the mutiny of Russian sailors in 1905. Includes the Odessa Steps sequence, famous for its revolutionary film editing and cinematic montage.

Battleship Potemkin. (1988)
Dramatic account of the mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905.

The battleship Potemkin. (1986)
A dramatic reenactment of the mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905.

Catherine the Great. (2000)
Trapped in a loveless political marriage to the dissolute nephew of the ailing Russian Empress Elizabeth, young German princess Sophia Fredericka bides her time, chooses her lovers carefully and plots her path to the throne. Skillfully manipulating the Russian triumvirate of church, army and aristocracy, she adroitly rides the shifting currents of social change and unrest to become one of Russia's most unforgettable and beloved rulers, Catherine the Great.

Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. (2001)
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.

Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. (1987)
A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.

The hunt for Red October. (2003)
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.

Mother. (1982)
Set in Russia at the time of the abortive 1905 revolution. Shows a mother's conversion to communism through her experience with the Tsarist regime.

Stalingrad. (1996)
This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - the legendary battle of Stalingrad.

ART:

ARTStor from e-resource list
(pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)

1. Click the “Launch” button in lower right corner of browser to begin your search.

2. Click on “Advanced Search” (top of page)

3. Enter a “Subject Search” for RUSSIA (or MOSCOW or ST. PETERSBURG).
(choose the Subject option from the drop down menu at the search screen)

4. When you see your results, click on an image’s Title to see information about the painting or image.

5. Double click on the image to view it at a larger size. Click with your mouse on the image to zoom in, and use arrow keys to move around the image.

NOTES::
You can PRINT images from this database: Double click the image as described above to see a larger image in the “image viewer”. At the bottom of that new window there will be an icon to click for printing:

Computer screen size may need to be adjusted to 1152 X 864 (instead of 1024 X 768) in order to see all options in the image viewer window (such as the print option at the bottom).

(To adjust screen/display size, go to Control Panel: Display, then Settings Tab)

CAMIO from e-resource list
Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

1. A keyword search for “Russia” retrieves many images of sculptures, pottery and other artifacts found in museums.

2. Click on an image to see it in more detail with other text information about the image.

NOTE:
Use the email option (found at the top of the enlarged image). The database will send you a .jpg file which you can then save, open and print.

HDFS:

ETHNIC NEWS WATCH from e-resource list
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press

REFERENCE BOOKS:

Ethnic groups worldwide : a ready reference handbook: GN325.L46 1998

The Encyclopedia of the peoples of the world: GN495.4.E53 1993

International encyclopedia of marriage and family: HQ9.E52 2003

Encyclopedia of urban cultures : cities and cultures around the world: HT108.5.E53 2002

International Studies:

ABSEES Online from e-resource list
ABSEES Online is the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. ABSEES Online covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications. The database covers materials from 1990-present.

CIAO from e-resource list
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is a comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles.

ETHNIC NEWS WATCH from e-resource list
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press