New e-resource : Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century

Cambridge University members now have online access to all the Russian Anarchist periodicals of the early 20th century on the Brill platform.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now on the Brill platform

Also available via the Cambridge E-Resources A-Z

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Anarchism and the Russian Revolution
Anarchists – being a small but highly radical group in pre-revolutionary Russia – lacked printing facilities within their own country and were forced to initiate their propaganda activities from abroad. During the February Revolution of 1917, the leaders of the anarchist movement (Petr Kropotkin, Apollon Karelin, Vsevolod Volin, Alexandr Ge and others) were released from prison, and from internal and external exile, and anarchist literature and periodicals were legalized in Russia. This collection reveals the eventful history of Russia during the revolutionary era, from the perspective of metropolitan and provincial newspapers and journals published by the most radical political forces. Furthermore, these materials shed new light on the relationship of the anarchists with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet State, and also reveal the impact of anarchist ideas on the literature and art of the period.

Periodicals from the Major Cities and the Provinces
The revived anarchist groups issued brochures, pamphlets, newspapers and journals and re-published the old works of the theoreticians of anarchism. From an ideological and political point of view, Russian anarchism was divided into a host of sub-movements. Consequently, the anarchist periodicals were characterized by a wide diversity of content. By the spring of 1918, anarchist groups of various convictions were active in 130 cities and towns all over the country. Various sources indicate that they were publishing up to 55 newspapers and journals. This collection presents the most interesting samples of that period. Leading publications were those originating from Petrograd and Moscow: the newspapers Anarkhiia (circulation 20,000 copies) and Burevestnik, as well as the weekly journals Svobodnaia Kommuna (10,000 copies), Volnyi golos truda (15,000 copies), Golos truda, Golos anarkhista. The newspapers and journals from Kiev, Kharkov and Krasnoyarsk presented in this collection are particularly rare documents, since most anarchist publications from the province have not survived.

Anarchism and Avant-garde Art in Revolutionary Russia
Special attention should be given to the various connections of anarchism with radical trends in Russian art and literature. The informal alliance of artist radicals with radicals in the political field was strengthened by the fact that the anarchists were actively involved in various organs of new Soviet power during the months following the October Revolution of 1917. Moreover, in these early days, the artistic policy of the Bolsheviks was largely based on the principles of anarchism, and their actions were guided by anarchist manifestos, particularly their decree on the “nationalization of art” (1918). Anarchist ideas had a strong impact on the futurists, concerning a revolutionary transformation of life. Of particular interest is the newspaper Anarkhiia, which prominently featured the section “Creative Work”. This section included regular contributions by Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksei Gan, O’lga Rozanova, Natan Altman, Arthur Lourié and Nikolai Punin. Their articles represent a wide scope of creative interests among the artistic avant-garde, from music and painting to the ‘proletarian’ theatre and cinematography.

Rashit Yangirov, Moscow

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Title: Klich

Creator: Borovoĭ, Alekseĭ,1876?-1936.

Contributor: Federat͡sīi͡a soi͡uzov rabotnikov umstvennago truda.

Date: 1917

Date in Source: 1917.

Place: Moscow.

Country: Russia (Federation)

Imprint: Moskva : N.V. Petrov,

Language: Russian

Subject: Anarchism – Periodicals. – Syndicalism – Periodicals. – Russian periodicals – 20th century.

 

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Literaturnaia gazeta digital archive

Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation

Commercial and Trade Relations Between Tsarist Russia;the Soviet Union and the U.S.;1910-1963 

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

Resource description from the Brill platform.

Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online, advisor: R. Yangirov, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007 http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/anarchist-periodicals

New e-resource : Soviet Woman Digital Archive (1945-1991)

Cambridge University members now have online access to all the Soviet Woman Digital Archive (1945-1991) on the East View platform.

HOW TO ACCESS

Access is available now on the East View platform

Also available via the Cambridge E-Resources A-Z and iDiscover

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Established in the aftermath of the WWII in 1945, the magazine Soviet Woman proclaimed on the cover of its first issue its fundamental mission: “A magazine devoted to social and political problems, literature and art… .” Published initially under the aegis of the of Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee and the Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR, it began as a bimonthly illustrated magazine tasked with countering anti-Soviet propaganda by introducing Western audiences to the lifestyle of Soviet women, their role in the post-WWII rebuilding of the Soviet economy, praising their achievements in the arts and the sciences. Originally published simultaneously in Russian, English, German and French, the magazine went on to add more foreign language editions aiming to reach even wider audiences both in the West and elsewhere to balance the Western narrative about the Soviet Union in these countries with a pro-Soviet ideological counterweight.

Over the years the magazine developed regular sections covering issues dealing with economics, politics, life abroad, life in Soviet republics, women’s fashion, as well as broader issues in culture and the arts. One of its most popular features was the translations of Soviet literary works, making available in English, (and other languages) works of Russian and Soviet writers that were previously unavailable, allowing readers worldwide a peek inside the hitherto insular Soviet literary world. An important communist propaganda outlet, the magazine continued its run until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

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Soviet Woman, No. 6 Supplement, June 30, 1963

 

    June 14, 1963. A Soviet citizen is in space once more. Spaceship Vostok-5 has rocketed into the skies. This time the pilot is a Muscovite, Valeri Bykovsky. Moscow, of course, and the rest of the country, too, is jubilant.
    We all wonder how he is faring up there. People search the papers, tune in their radios and TV sets— late at night even.
    Then, unexpectedly, a rumour spreads:
    “ A woman will be put into orbit, for certain.”
    “ You don’t say?”
    “ She may be aboard now, the news just isn’t being re­leased yet. . ,”
    “ There’s sure to be something new. They wouldn’t send Bykovsky up to do what Gagarin has already done before him.”
    “ But Herman Titov flew alone. . .”
    Frankly, we, too, looked forward to something novel. One day in August last year in Red Square, when welcom­ing Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich home from their first group flight, Nikita Khrushchov said:
    “ We are sure that the family of cosmonauts will in time have new sons and daughters of the peoples of our multina­tional state.”
    We were among the first to cheer. It may not have been very feminine of us to shout like that, but there was spon­taneous joy and confidence in it that the dream of Soviet women would soon come true, and they would join the men in outer space.
    The shining hour arrived on a Sunday, June 16, when the radio informed us that a Soviet woman, Valentina Te­reshkova, had been launched into space,

    Yes, the sixth Soviet furrow in the space ocean was ploughed by a woman. She joined her cosmonaut brother Valeri Bykovsky to fly under the starry roof of the sky.

RELATED RESOURCES

You may also be interested in these online collections of Russian periodicals and more resources in the Modern and Medieval Languages: Russian LibGuide

Literaturnaia gazeta digital archive

Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation

East View databases, serials and eresources

THIS RESOURCE IS BROUGHT TO YOU WITH FUNDING FROM UKRI             

This new acquisition is funded by a grant from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) for building capacity through strategic investment in research priorities. 

In Cambridge University Libraries we are proud to be recipients of the UKRI award enabling us to purchase high-priority, data rich electronic research resources to provide a step change in research capacity and research environment. The selection of resources has been informed by benchmarking with peer institutions and developing academic research priorities across multiple schools and themes, including diversification and the Global Humanities.

Resource description from the East View platform.

New eresource : Mass Observation Project 1981-2009

We are very pleased to announce that access to the Mass Observation Project is now available to Cambridge University members.

The Mass Observation Project (MOP) is a unique national life writing project about everyday life in Britain, capturing the experiences, thoughts and opinions of everyday people.

This collection consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation between 1980 and 2010 and the thousands of responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers. 

For help navigating the Mass Observation Project site please see their helpful user guides.

Mass Observation Project consists of all the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation and the responses to them from the hundreds of Mass Observers.

Addressing topics such as the Falklands War, clothing, attitudes to the USA, reading and television habits, morality and religion, and Britain’s relations with Europe, the directives and responses are an essential resource for anyone interested in late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century British social history.

Broad themes covered include current events, friends and family, the home, leisure, politics, society, culture and the media, work, finance and the economy and new technology.

The Adam Matthew Digital Accessibility Statement covers all their available resources, including the Mass observation Project.

New e-resource: American Indian Newspapers

Cambridge University Libraries are delighted to announce the acquisition of the digital archive American Indian Newspapers.

For this new acquisition, we are sincerely grateful to the legacy of Dr. Mark Kaplanoff, Fellow of Pembroke College, whose endowment provides Cambridge with rich and diverse collections to support the study of the history of the United States in the University.

From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.

American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.

Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

A link to this database is included in the A-Z Databases Libguide. Records for titles included in this database are available in iDiscover.

Text taken from the Adam Matthews platform

LGBTQ Archives of sexuality & gender

Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of the LGBTQ Archives of Sexuality and Gender. Acquiring the archives has been made possible thanks to funding from the University to support teaching, learning, and research in the history of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Access the LGBTQ Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

The archives offer a significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history. Read more about the content of each part of the archives on the following pages:-

• LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, part I
• LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, part II
• Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
• International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture

We are delighted that Tom English from Gale will be introducing the archives via a webinar on 23 February at 11:00 – 11:45 AM and giving an overview of the material within the series, as well as insight into how to make the most of it through Gale’s powerful research platforms. The webinar will cover content in the archives, including documentation of the social, political, health and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world, as well as rare and unique books on sex and sexuality from the sciences to the humanities.

Location: Online via Zoom here: https://cengage.zoom.us/j/92413464284

Meeting ID: 924 1346 4284

Further promotional materials for librarians and users of the archives are available via the following links:

All videos playlist

Individual video links

• Value of the archive 
• Content: 
• Case Study: LEGATRA, Zambia 
• Decolonising the curriculum 

Visit the Cambridge University Libraries LGBTQ+ LibGuide for more resources in LGBTQ+ studies.

LGBT databases available until 30th June 2020

The ProQuest LGBT Magazine Archive and the LGBT Thought and Culture database are available to access until 30th June 2020.

Please send your feedback about these resources via the online form.

LGBT Magazine Archive

A searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years.

The archives of magazines serving LGBT+ communities are of central importance for research into LGBT history, often being the principal sources for the documentation of gay cultures, lives, and events. Researchers consulting these publications may trace the history and evolution of myriad aspects of LGBT history and culture, including legal contexts, health, lifestyle, politics, social attitudes, activism, gay rights, and arts/literature. Despite the value of these publications for research, however, locating the backfiles in print format has been difficult for researchers as they have not typically been collected by libraries.

The archives of 26 leading but previously hard-to-find magazines are included in LGBT Magazine Archive, including many of the longest-running, most influential publications of this type. Crucially, the complete backfile of The Advocate is made available digitally for the first time. The oldest surviving continuously published US title of its type (having launched in 1967), it is the periodical of record for information about the LGBT community; it has charted the key developments in LGBT history and culture for over 50 years. As one of the very few LGBT titles to pre-date the 1969 Stonewall riots, it spans the history of the gay rights movement.

LGBT Thought and Culture

is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.

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Text from the ProQuest and Alexander Street Press platforms

British Archives Online : trial extended until 30th June 2020

British Archives Online have generously been made accessible to the University of Cambridge by Microform Academic Publishers until 30th June 2020.

Please send us your feedback about this, and any of our other trials, via the online form.

British Online Archives is one of the United Kingdom’s leading academic publishers.

The richness and diversity of BAO’s 89 collections (currently and growing) both for the study of British and global history is staggering and will provide an online library of great value to researchers at Cambridge.

The Archive hosts over 3 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine.

Whether you’re an individual interested in your family’s history, a librarian looking for ways to adapt in the digital age, or a professor in search of innovative teaching tools, we have something to meet your needs.

Newsbank databases : available until 30th June 2020

A number of newspaper databases have been made available on the Newsbank (Readex) platform for access until 30th June 2020.

Please send your feedback about these eresources via the form.

Collections included in our access are:

Evans Digital Edition (Web)

• Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries
• From the bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol’s Supplement
• Published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society

Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition (Web)

• Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the early 19th century
• From the bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker
• Published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society

Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985

Quintessential reporting on South Africa from the Boer Wars to the apartheid era

African Newspapers: The British Library Collection

More than 60 African historical newspapers from the nineteenth century

African Newspapers, 1800-1922

African Newspapers, Series II, 1835-1925

Historical Newspapers from Africa

Explore African History and Culture during the 19th and 20th Centuries

South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922

Historical Newspapers from South Asia
Explore South Asian History and Culture during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Latin American Newspapers (Series I)

Latin American Newspapers (Series II)

Historical Newspapers from Latin America
Explore Latin American History and Culture during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Digital Collection All Regions, 1941-1996

• An archive of 20th Century news from around the world
• Global views on United States foreign and domestic policy after World War II
• Covers the Cold War, China, the Middle East, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and more

Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees, 1941-1996

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century

Pravda Archive: Global Perspectives, 1959-1996

Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, from 1959 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA

History Vault (ProQuest) : access to 31 May 2020

American history of the 19th and 20th century at your fingertips in millions of primary sources from ProQuest History Vault accessible to end May 2020

ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

Access for Cambridge is enabled via this link

ProQuest History Vault

Please use your feedback form to tell how these archives have been useful to you.  Thank you.

Get help on using the History Vault from the History Vault LibGuide.

ProQuest History Vault first launched in 2011 and consists of manuscript and archival collections digitized in partnership and from a wide variety of archival institutions. Major collection areas in History Vault focus on the Black Freedom Movement of the 20th Century, Southern Life and Slavery, Women’s Rights, International Relations, American Politics and Society with a strong focus on the 20th Century, and labor unions, workers and radical politics in the 20th Century. On the topic of civil rights and Black Freedom, History Vault contains records of four of the most important civil rights organizations of the 1950s and 1960s: NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and CORE.

History Vault’s collections on Slavery and Southern plantations candidly document the realities of slavery at the most immediate grassroots level in Southern society and provide some of the most revealing documentation in existence on the functioning of the slave system. Many of the collections in History Vault were originally available in microfilm from the University Publications of America (UPA) research collections and others come from the University Microfilms International (UMI) research collections with additional collections scanned from the original documents.

Horses in landscape, Franz Marc whose works are recorded in the collection Nazi Looted Art and Assets : Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process 1942-1998

 

The Brexit Collection at LSE

The London School of Economics has made a collection of campaigning leaflets from the 1975 and 2016 referendums on the UK’s membership of the common market and EU available online. 

The collection can be browsed by referendum year, affiliation, organisation and subject. There are almost 40 leaflets for the 1975 referendum and over 180 from 2016.

For the 1975 referendum they say:

“After Charles de Gaulle famously vetoed the UK’s decision to join the European Communities (EC), the UK finally became a member in 1973. By 1975 the first ever UK-wide referendum took place, where the electorate were asked “Do you think the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the common market)?” with 67% of the voting electorate answering “yes” and 33% “no”.”

The collection is part of a wider archive of documents looking at Britain and the European Union.

 

The images are not copyright free and are made available for research only.

This collection is not available to search in iDiscover and should be accessed on the LSE website.