Internet Resources for Russian Language, Literature & Culture
There is a wealth of information on the World Wide Web, but sometimes it is difficult to find a good starting point. The following metasites, or gateways, have been selected as good guides to Russian language, literature and culture. These sites link to resources in both English and Cyrillic Russian. If your computer has trouble displaying Cyrillic text, first learn how to Russify your computer by clicking here: http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova
This site comprises a huge collection of Russian texts, including both popular and classical literature, as well as translations into Russian from other languages.
Friends and Partners: Literature
This site, from an organization intended to promote mutual understanding between peoples of the former Soviet Union and the West, provides an extensive collection of links to Russian literature resources, including electronic texts as well as descriptive/critical materials.
Language and Literature: Russia
Created and maintained by subject experts in the European Division of the Library of Congress, this site provides links to works on language, to dictionaries and to a number of sites providing full text access to Russian literary works.
Russian Culture at Bucknell
Maintained by the Russian Studies Program at Bucknell University, this site provides a collection of links to Russian cultural sites in several broad categories: Art, Cities, Cuisine, Feminism, Folklore, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Theater, Holidays, and Humor.
In addition, the following sites provide access to a broad spectrum of resources of interest to Russian Studies, including history, politics, economics, culture and society, as well as literature.
Portals to the World: Russia: Selected Internet Resources
REESWeb--Russian and East European Studies
Russia on the Net
This is "the original Russian Web directory" and search engine for finding Russian material on the Web.
Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Web Resources
Provides links to a wide range of information resources on cultural and social matters.
July 15, 2008
Pamela Cline-Howley
