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UCL SSEES Library is the UK’s leading specialist academic collection on Russia, Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, providing a unique resource for students and researchers. The primary purpose of UCL SSEES Library is to support the academic aims of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
For collection management purposes the Library's holdings are divided into four distinctive areas, maintained by a dedicated team of four Area Liaison Librarians, each responsible for a respective area. This guide focuses on library resources for the Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Eurasia area. To learn more about the other areas please check the relevant guide. You may also find our discipline guides useful: SSEES Economics and Business, SSEES History, SSEES Politics and Sociology and SSEES Languages and Culture.
The Library supports taught courses at the School, but the collection is research-level in nature and contains an impressive array of traditional and digital resources.
The Library builds and maintains research-level collections of international importance, covering a range of formats from print and electronic books, journals and newspapers, to databases, archive collections, rare books, maps and audio-visual resources. The Library’s holdings strongly support research in the humanities, social sciences, and East European studies.
The main fields of interest are history, politics, sociology, economics, geography, languages, literature and culture. Subsidiary fields of interest are the arts, anthropology, demography, ethnography and religion. In addition, current topics such as the European Union, Eurasian integration, media, migration, human rights, gender studies, and environmental issues are well represented.
The guides provide an overview of resources dedicated to the study of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Eurasia area.
Access for UCL students and staff only - login with UCL username and password. BBC Monitoring covers reports from radio, television, news agencies, press and new media in over 180 countries, in over 100 languages. Access is to the global portal plus Terrorism Digest, Regional Political and Security Round ups and Cyber Security Review
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.
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
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
Access for UCL students and staff only. Database of news and company information (formerly provided as LexisNexis 'Executive').
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. Accessibility statement for Socialism on Film.
