The Harriman Institute

Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at Columbia

Institute Director Philip E. Mosely examining an issue of "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press" with assistant editor Fred Holling in 1953Slavoj Žižek, FREUD AND THE POLITICALHarriman Lecturer Imre Kertesz, 2004
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Columbia University Libraries

Students and scholars coming to the Harriman Institute have at their disposal one of the finest collections of materials on Russia and the post-Soviet nations in the West. Columbia's holdings are accessible through Columbia's online catalog, CLIO http://clio.cul.columbia.edu. Some material published before 1981 is still represented only in the central card catalog, located on the third floor of Butler Library, but this quantity is rapidly shrinking as the Library's catalog conversion is nearing completion.

Columbia's Russian and East European collection is estimated to consist of 946,000 monograph titles, with over 708,000 in Russian and other languages of the region. The Columbia Libraries house a major collection of nearly 8,000 journals, periodicals and government reports in the region's languages, and maintain current subscriptions to more than 1,600 journals from and about the area. The University maintains an active exchange program with libraries in the former Soviet Union and acquires new material regularly. Columbia also has a unique PostSoviet Nationalities Collection, which contains over 21,000 volumes in 59 languages of the Russian Federation, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The Libraries subscribe to several significant sources of electronic information from and about the region, including bibliographic databases and full-text repositories of newspapers, newswires, statistical publications, government documents, and scholarly journals. These are available both from LibraryWeb, Libraries' website (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/), and are concentrated in the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Department's pages: http://www.columbia.edu/library/slavic/.
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There are 22 libraries within the Columbia system. Most of the books on Russia and the Soviet Union are located in Butler and Lehman libraries, but relevant materials can be found in the other libraries as well, depending upon the subject. For further information contact the Librarian for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Jared Ingersoll: (212) 854-4701; ingersoll@columbia.edu.
Bakhmeteff Archive

Established in 1951, the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture, the second largest repository of Russian émigré materials in the United States, contains approximately 1.3 million items in 1000 collections. These collections, made up of letters, diaries, memoirs, tapes, photographs, original manuscripts, and other documentary materials, cover the period from the 17th century to the present. The papers of well-known political personages such as Ferenc Nagy, Zoltan Pfeiffer, Imre Kovacs, and Jaromir Smutny are of particular importance to historians and political scientists interested in the modern history of East Central Europe. The Bakhmeteff Archive is located on the 6th Floor, east of Butler Library. For further information, contact Curator Tanya Chebotarev: (212) 854-3986, tc241@columbia.edu. For more information, visit the Bakhmeteff Archive website: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/collections/bakhmeteff/.
New York Public Library

In addition to Columbia's libraries, scholars at the Harriman Institute can draw on the unique resources of New York City. The famed Slavic and Baltic collection of the New York Public Library (located at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue) is only a short subway ride away. Taken together, the collections of Columbia and the New York Public Library add up to the single largest concentration of Russian language materials in the country. The NYPL Slavic and Baltic Division holds more than 465,323 volumes, 1,200 current serials and 21,800 microform titles. The Slavic and Baltic Division is located in Rooms 216-217 of the New York Public Library. For more information, call the Division at (212) 930-0714; e-mail: slavicref@nypl.org. Visit the NYPL website for hours and more information on the collection: www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/slav.balt.html.
Oral History Research Office

Harriman Institute faculty, fellows and students may also request access to the interviews of the Oral History Collection, which include the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev and the Radio Liberty Project. The Oral History Research Office is located at 801 Butler Library. For access, contact the Director, Mary Marshall Clark at (212) 854-2273. You can e-mail the Oral History Office: oralhist@libraries.cul.columbia.edu, or visit their website: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/about.html.

Harriman Institute Resource Center

The Harriman Institute maintains its own resource center, which houses a core collection of films, reference materials, newspapers and journals, and reserves for some Harriman courses. Computer access is available. The resource center is open to students, faculty, and fellows Monday through Friday. For more information, contact Larisa Kirichenko at (212) 854-8452; bak16@columbia.edu.