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Russian Literature Abroad

Photo: Maria Govtvan, RSL

This collection includes books, journals, newspapers of the Russian emigre community, works by authors from several waves of emigration, foreign books and periodicals about Russia (Rossica), domestic publications about the Russian emigration, microforms with the status of originals, and CDROM publications on the Russian emigration.

This collection also features publications access to which was restricted between 1921 and 1988: books in foreign European languages published abroad that contained criticism of the USSR, and emigre literature.


Central Book Repository Other Thematic Collections

from 1917
to the present day
+ 700,000
items

Delivery Locations:

Oak Reading Room, Room A-309, 3rd Floor, 1st Entrance, Main Building

Books and magazines — Main Circulation Desk of the Reading Rooms, next to Reading Room No. 3, 2nd Floor, 1st Entrance, Main Building

Microforms and CDROMs of Rossica— Electronic Resources and Microforms, Room A-116g, 1st Floor, 1st Entrance, Main Building

Of particular value in this collection are the runs of newspapers published during the Civil War (1917–1923) and the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945).