History of U.S.-Soviet/Russian Relations

The Basics

Restricted Access

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Citing Your Sources

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U.S. Foreign Relations: Basic Resources

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas: Editors, Alexander DeConde et. al. 2d edition. New York, Scribner, 2002. 3 vols.
121 in-depth scholarly essays on the concepts, themes, movements, and distinctive policies found in the history of American foreign relations. List of Articles; Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7.E52 2002

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. 4 vols.
1,024 scholarly entries relating to the political, economic, military, and cultural interactions of the U.S. government and the American people with other nations and peoples. Most entries include bibliography.; Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7.E53 1997

Bibliographies

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature: Robert L. Beisner, editor. 2nd edition. Santa Barbara, CA., ABC-CLIO, 2003. 2 vols.
The basic resource for identifying materials (primary documents, books, essays, articles, dissertations, reference sources) on American foreign relations. Based on Burns (below) but without the lengthy historiographic essays and maps. Chronological arrangement with each chapter preceded by a detailed table of contents. Annotated entries.; Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .A44 2003

Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700: Richard Dean Burns. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1983.
The classic bibliographic guide to American foreign relations. Arranged by historical period; annotated entries, extensive historiographic essays, maps, and biographies of key figures.; Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .G83 1983

U.S. Foreign Policy Under President Bush: NATO Library Thematic Bibliographies No.6/2003.

Primary Documents

Foreign Relations of the United States: U.S. Department of State. Washington, D.C., 1861- .
The 'official' documentary record of U.S. foreign policy. Correspondance, reports, and documents relating to U.S. diplomatic history, published with a delay of approximately 25 years. The most recent volumes (Truman - Nixon/Ford) are available online. The State Department maintains a list of all volumes that have been published.; Dana Call Number: JX233 .A3
Index to 1939-1945 volumes: Ref. JX233 .A3 Suppl.

Foreign Relations of the United States 1861-1958/60: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries have digitized a large portion of the first hundred years of the FRUS. Volumes can be browsed or searched.

Declassified Documents Reference System: Full-text database of documents that have been declassified by the U.S. government. Includes CIA, FBI, State Department, National Security Agency, and White House documents, among others. Largest coverage beginning after World War II, although some earlier documents are included.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

CIA Declassified Documents: The Princeton Collection: A collection of declassified analytic documents on the former Soviet Union, produced by the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence between 1951 and 1991. Documents were originally released for a 2001 conference held at Princeton University that focused on the role of intelligence in the Cold War.

Finding Books: Library Catalogs

IRIS The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries.

To find books on relations of the United States with Russia or the Soviet Union search IRIS using SUBJECT begins with: United States Foreign Relations [Country/Region Name]; For example: united states foreign relations soviet union; United States Relations [Country/Region Name]; For example: united states relations russia

To find published primary sources on the relations of the United States with Russia or the Soviet Union, add the word "Sources" to your subject search:: For example: united states foreign relations russia sources

Newark Law
Camden Law: Rutgers Law library materials are not listed in IRIS. So if your topic is in some way law-related, be sure and use the Law library catalogs.

Center for Research Libraries: CRL is consortium of North American university and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, foreign dissertations, archives, and other expensive or hard to find materials. As Rutgers is a CRL member, these materials are considered part of Rutgers' collections and can be borrowed via Interlibrary Loan. In addition to the materials listed in their catalog, CRL also supports and provides access to special collections such as the Slavic and East European Microform Project, International Dissertations, and Global Newspapers

Finding Articles plus: Indexes

This is a selected list of databases that you may find useful. There are many other indexes that may focus more specifically on the particular topic that you are researching. Check out the complete list of Rutgers online indexes and databases.

Soviet Periodicals

Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei Online: Index to approximately 3 million articles published in Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. Includes journals from the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and popular literature. Requires Cyrillic input; virtual keyboard provided. A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program.

History

America: History and Life: 1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Historical Abstracts: 1955- . The most comprehensive index to world history (excluding that of the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexes over 2,000 history and history-related journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Political Science, Public Policy, and International Affairs

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: 1975- Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Public Affairs Information Service: 1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online: 1991- Database of full-text working papers, research reports, conference proceedings, policy briefs, and journal articles relating to international affairs.
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Can't resist the urge to Google?

Google Scholar: Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.

Reporting the News

Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher on Media and Foreign Policy: Video. Two former Secretaries of State talk about the impact of media on foreign policy. Paley Center for Media, June 18, 2007.

Bibliographies

International Reporting by the American News Media: A Bibliography of Scholarship and Criticism, 1990-2001: William A. Dorman and Robert Manoff. Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, Boston University.

Historical Accounts

Historical New York Times: Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included, use Access World News.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900: The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

RSAP: Resources for Research: Lists 18th, 19th, and early 20th century magazines and newspapers that are available full-text on the web. In addition to single titles, lists newspapers included as part of large digital collections (e.g., Cornell's and University of Michigan's Making of American Collections). From the Research Society for American Periodicals.

Contemporary Accounts

U.S. Media

Access World News: Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

Factiva: A vast archive which includes the full-text of 8,000 leading newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts. Ten to twenty year+ backfile for many titles.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

CNN - Europe: Major news network

Voice of America: Regional and international news, editorials, reports, radio broadcasts and webcasts in English and other languages. An international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government.

Non-U.S. Media

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: News, news transcripts, special reports and analyses, and radio broadcasts to and about Russia, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central and Southwestern Asia, and the Middle East.

World News Connection: Translated and English-language news and information from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, and the Middle East..
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access.

Public Opinion

To find books and other materials on U.S. public opinion on Russia and/or the Soviet Union, search IRIS using SUBJECT begins with: RUSSIA FOREIGN PUBLIC OPINION, AMERICAN; SOVIET UNION FOREIGN PUBLIC OPINION, AMERICAN

To find books and other materials on Russian/Soviet public opinion on the United States, search IRIS using SUBJECT begins with: UNITED STATES FOREIGN PUBLIC OPINION, RUSSIAN

Public Opinion Polls

iPoll: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research compilation of questions from U.S. national level public opinion polls from a variety of sources. Includes polls back to 1935.; Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Polling the Nations: "A compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 14,000 national, state and local surveys conducted since 1986 by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and one hundred other countries."
Off-Campus Link Restricted Access

Pew Research Center Survey Reports: Formerly the Times Mirror Center for People and the Press, the Pew Research Center studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. Reports back to 1987 available.

Gallup Poll: Includes summaries of recent Gallup public opinion polls. Access to back files of full reports requires a subscription.

Gallup Poll Briefing: 2000- Weekly summary and analysis of the latest Gallup Poll findings. Off-Campus Link Restricted Access; Gallup Poll Briefing [print edition] 2006 Ref. HM261 .A1G34; Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing (print edition) 2002-2005 Ref HM261 .A1G34; Gallup Poll Monthly 1989-2002 Ref HM261 .A1G3; Gallup Report 1981-1989 Ref HM261.G35; Gallup Opinion Index 1967-1981 Ref. HM261.G35

"The Other" in Popular Culture

To find books and other materials on the portrayal of Russia and Russians in American popular culture, search IRIS using SUBJECT begins with: RUSSIA IN LITERATURE; SOVIET UNION IN LITERATURE; SOVIET UNION IN MOTION PICTURES; NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, RUSSIAN, IN MOTION PICTURES

Bibliographies

Sixties Political Films: An Annotated Bibliography

The Culture of the Cold War

Finding Other Books and Articles

MLA International Bibliography: 1926- . The most comprehensive index to journal articles, books, dissertations, and other materials relating to literature, folkore, and film studes. Indexes more than 4400 journals.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

treatment of russia
treatment of russians
treatment of u.s.s.r.

Film Literature Index: Index to scholarly and popular film and television periodicals worldwide from 1976 to 2001. Search or browse citations.

Films and Posters

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming: Clips from the 1966 film.

Animated Soviet Propaganda. Part I: American Imperialists. 2006: Part 1 of a 4-part documentary spanning 1924 to 1984. Most material in this part is from the Cold War era.

Animated Soviet Propaganda. Part 3: Capitalist Sharks. 2006: Part 3 of a 4-part documentary spanning 1924 to 1984.

CCCP - USSR Propaganda Posters

Soviet Propaganda Against USA (posters): English captions added

Russian and/or Soviet Propaganda & Advertising Posters [1917-1991]: 1469 posters.

Finding Films

Want to know if the Rutgers Libraries own a particular film?

Select Advanced Search in IRIS, the Libraries' online catalog. Enter the title into the "TITLE" search box, and select Visual Materials from the format pull-down menu.

Videos/DVDs owned by the Dana Library are available for viewing in the Media Center on the 4th floor of Dana Library.

Videos that are only available from the Media Center in New Brunswick must be booked BY FACULTY for class viewing. All other users must view materials on-site at the Media Center on the Livingston Campus. Advance reservations for viewing rooms are recommended. Undergraduate students may make reservations no earlier than 24 hours in advance. To make a reservation, call 445-4980 (x155).