SSEES History

Ongoing full-text database of 2,300+ academic journals, 4,200+ eBooks and 5,500 Grey Literature documents published in Central, East and Southeast Europe dedicated to Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. Full-text content is indexed and included in 30+ languages.

Ongoing full-text academic journals published in East and Central Europe. Covers business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities

Database of full-text newspaper articles, journal articles and government publications from Russia, plus newspaper articles from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Encyclopedia of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe, from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. Covers arts, daily life, places, languages and literature, history and politics, and religion.

This database contains the data of two former EBSEES databases, one for 1991-2000, the other for 2001-2006. The new unified database with about 85.500 titles has been developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris.

See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 6 users at a time. Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excl. the United States and Canada - see America: History and Life).

Covering topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes around 550 titles, with more than 400 available in full-text.

Access for UCL students and staff only. Database of news and company information (formerly provided as LexisNexis 'Executive').

Cross-search with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources. Full text of British newspapers, pamphlets and books from 1757-1817, from the collection of the Reverend Charles Burney.

This collection makes available a number of leading periodicals and monographs with special importance for the study of the Czechoslovak avant-garde and architecture in the period before the Second World War. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

This collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most classified Top Secret or higher) provides a declassified documentary record of successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

This collection comprises unique material on sports and physical culture in Russia, 1891-1919. Sports provided opportunities for transitions from tradition to modernity: athletic competition broke down class barriers, brought women into public spaces, and encouraged new modes of behavior and self-presentation. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Information on domestic and foreign films shown on screens in Russia from 1907-1918, including full text of film magazines and newspapers, detailed description of films, reviews by critics and censored materials. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Newspapers published in Eastern Europe between 1835 and 1922.

Database includes a number of digital archives such as "Izvestiia" 1917 onward; "Krokodil" 1922-2008; "Pravda" 1912 onward; "Vestnik Evropy" 1802 - 1830, or "Voprosy Istorii".

Serbian newspaper database.

Cross-search with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources. Digital library of eighteenth-century publications, based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Covers history and geography; social science and fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; philosophy and religion; law; general reference. Accessibility statement for Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Transcribed and translated intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, covering 1941-1996.

Collection of writings of writings of the Hungarian reformers, 1540s-1650s, including early texts and later works for the established churches. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

The illustrated weeklies gathered in this collection open a window on Russian cultural, social, and political life. Tracing the sweep of the Russian imagination at the apogee of Russian cultural power from the peak years of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to the modernist era and the chaos of 1917. They captured imperial expansion, cultural innovation, high fashion, graphic arts, performing arts, grand funerals and anniversaries, occasions of state, wonders of science, and domestic and foreign politics. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Digital Archive of Iskusstvo kino, the journal of Russian cinema critics. The journal publishes reviews of contemporary Russian and foreign movies, articles on history and theory of Russian and world cinema as well as general essays on Russian culture and arts.

Freely accessible, Manuscriptorium digital library is the designated platform for the European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage. Providing access to more than 5 million images of manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, deeds, charters and more, up to the year 1800.

Complete runs of the kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated newspapers in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Database covering 19 newspapers from the North Caucasus, one of the most volatile areas of Russia and the Former USSR. Includes the two disputed breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Material from the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. The collection illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

This collection covers 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. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

This collection of theatre periodicals provides a detailed picture of metropolitan and provincial Russian theatre, and reflects the cultural life in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

A journal of history and literature, published in Moscow from 1863-1917 Russkii Arkhiv published mostly unreleased memoirs, epistolary, literary and institutional documentary materials that highlighted the cultural and political history of the Russian nobility in XVIII and XIX centuries.

Periodicals from the Russian Cinematographic and Theater Press, 1889-1919, covering film, theatre and other forms of entertainment and mass culture in pre-revolutionary Russia. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.

Kultura (Culture) is an important Russian weekly newspaper. An indispensable source of information on the developing and ever changing attitudes towards arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies.

Documents from the period 1923-1935 when state monopoly control over the Soviet cinema industry was being established. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Information on domestic and foreign films shown on screens in Russia and the USSR from 1918-1942, including full text of film magazines and newspapers, detailed description of films, reviews by critics and censored materials. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

Compatable with IE9, Firefox and Chrome. A collection of archival and secondary research documents that have previously only been available at the RGASPI archive in Russia

Journal collection covering the late Imperial stage in Russia, 1890-1915. Accessibility statement for Brill Primary Sources.

See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.