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Reference Books of 1987-1988: A Selection

Slavic librarians at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign have selected and annotated the bibliographies and reference works listed below. Annotations are signed with the initials of the reviewers.*

GENERAL

Osteuropaforschung in Marburg: Institu- tionen, Sammlungen, Ergebnisse. Compiled by Wolfgang Kessler, Hans Lemberg, and Marlis Sewering-Wollanek. Schriften der Universitatsbibliothek Marburg, 37. Mar- burg, 1988. 124 pp. LC 88-158697. This little volume, handsomely illustrated,

is a guide to Marburg's rich resources for research on Eastern Europe. After an introduc- tory essay by Wolfgang Kessler and Hans Lemberg most of the volume is devoted to surveys of Marburg institutions. The first, and largest, section is devoted to the Philipps Uni- versity, beginning with information on basic, all-university resources, such as the library, the language laboratory, and publication series, and continuing with surveys by depart- ment and institute, each including entries for library collections for faculty members' research interests, professional activities, and publications, and for dissertations defended. The second section is devoted to three institutions outside the university: the Mittel- deutsche Forschungsstelle, the Hessisches Staatsarchiv, and the Herder Forschungsrat. The volume concludes with a list of professional associations active in Marburg, a brief biobibliographical treatment of individual scholars, and an index.-MTC

Rosyjsko-polskie i polsko-rosyjskie j]zyko- znawstwo konfrontatywne: Prezeglqd bib- liograficzny, 1945-1985. By Jan Wawrzyni- czyk. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1987. 174 pp. 140 zl. All aspects of comparative studies of Polish

and Russian are covered in this partly annotated international bibliography. Arrangement is topical in fifteen categories and chronologi- cal within each section; cross-references are provided for entries that overlap subject cate-

gories. An author index facilitates use of the volume. -MO

BULGARIA

Sazdateli i tvortsi na bulgarskoto ezikoznanie. By Khristo Purvev. Sofia: Narodna prosveta, 1987. 374 pp. 4.04 leva. LC 88-149929. More than two hundred names are contained

in this "who's who" of Bulgarian linguistics. Entries include a photograph of the linguist, a brief description of his or her academic background, employment history, honors and awards, professional services, and a list of publications. There are indexes of personal names and subspecialties. The lengthy introduction, which describes forty-two important events in the development of Bulgarian linguistics, constitutes a useful historical sketch of the field. Except for sixteen high quality plates (some in color) of ancient manuscripts, early printed grammars, and modern linguistic works, the volume was produced on poor quality paper and was poorly bound. The print is virtually illegible in places, and the photographs accompanying the entries are nearly unrecognizable. Also unsatisfying is the sys- tem of assigning an acronym to each linguist based on his or her initials, for use in the personal name index. The acronym is given in the index instead of a page reference to indicate that an individual is listed in the bibliography of the linguist represented by the given acronym. In spite of these flaws, this biographical dictionary will be of use to those who are in- terested in Bulgarian linguists and their contri- butions. -MO

HUNGARY

A magyar munkasmozgalom tortenetenek vdl- ogatott bibliografidja 1945-1984. Com- piled by Sarolta V. Toldi. Budapest: Kos-

*Robert Burger, Susan K. Burke, Marianna Tax Choldin, Irina Faynzilberg, Natalia J. Lonchyna, Laurence H. Miller, Margaret Olsen, Dmytro M. Shtohryn, and Mary Stuart.



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suth, 1987. 510 pp. 230 Ft. LC 88-401166. Arranged topically and by historical periods

this selected bibliography on the labor move- ment and communism in Hungary includes 6,267 principally unannotated entries for articles and books in Hungarian and begins with 114 citations for other published bibliographies. There are personal and geographic name indexes and lists of periodicals and other serial publications perused.-LHM

POLAND

Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses Re- garding Polish Subjects, 1900-1985: An Annotated Bibliography. By Bernard Wiele- winski. East European Monographs, no. 235. Boulder, Colo.: East European Mono- graphs, 1988. 2C' pp. $30.00. LC 87- 82408. With more than 1,100 entries, this bibli-

ography of mostly English-language doctoral dissertations and master's theses on Polish top- ics is intended to "catalogue the scope of scholarly works regarding Polish subjects" at the graduate level in this century. More than 170 colleges and universities in 6 countries are represented. The main listing is alphabetical by author, and there are title, subject, discipline, and institutional indexes. Citations to abstracts in Dissertation Abstracts International and other sources are provided.-SKB

RUSSIA AND SOVIET UNION

Bibliography of Soviet Statistical Handbooks. By Timothy E. Heleniak. CIR Staff Paper no. 42. Washington, D.C.: Center for Inter- national Research, U.S. Bureau of the Cen- sus, 1988. xxiii, 237 pp. LC 88-602178. The previous three versions of this bibli-

ography (1979, 1980, 1984) were confined to regional statistical handbooks. In addition to. updating the regional coverage this work includes 299 national and 136 international handbooks published in the Soviet Union since the mid- 1950s. CIR library locations are noted, and the book includes a geographical index and useful tables showing the availability of handbooks by region and year.

Among the topical statistical handbooks published by "Finansy i statistika" in Moscow in 1988 were Kapital'noe stroitel'stvo SSSR,

246 pp., 1 ruble; Promyshlennost' SSSR, 286 pp., 1.40 rubles; Sel'skoe khoziaistvo SSSR, 534 pp.,2.20 rubles; and Trud v SSSR, 302 pp., 1.50 rubles. -LHM

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. Edited by Harold Shukman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. xiv, 418 pp. ?29.50. LC 88-10360. Organizations, events, and individuals

whose activities affected the outcome of the 1917 Revolution are covered in this encyclopedia, from the period of reforms in the 1860s to the end of the civil war in 1921. Part 1 is arranged topically and in approximate chrono- logical sequence. Although the articles are designed to be used independently, cross- references are also provided. There is a detailed contents list to facilitate use. Part 2 consists of a biographical dictionary of ap- proximately 175 persons. All articles are signed and most contain bibliographies. Illus- trative matter includes a map of the Russian Empire and period photographs. A combined name and subject index refers to both sections of the encyclopedia.-SKB

Dekabristy:Biograficheskiispravochnik. Com- piled by S. V. Mironenko. Edited by M. V. Nechkina. Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut istorii SSSR. Moscow: Nauka, 1988. 446 pp. 5 rubles. LC 88-176801. This volume will replace the 1925 edition of

the list of 300 Decembrists compiled by A. D. Borovkov in 1827 for the special investigative commission and the supplementary lists and biographical dictionary compiled by B. L. Modzalevskii and A. A. Sivers (all published as volume 8 of the series Vosstanie dekabris- tov). Begun in 1978 at the instigation of M. V. Nechkina and conceived as a fascimile of the 1925 edition with commentary, this volume quickly became a new work, necessitated by the vast scholarship on the Decembrists published since the early 1920s and also by the presence of numerous errors in the Modzalevskii-Sivers dictionary. (In the 1925 publication wrong dates were given for one- third of the Decembrists overall and for three- fifths of those convicted.) The resulting work consists of the following sections: the new biographical dictionary, considered the heart of the volume; the Borovkov list and Modza-



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levskii-Sivers supplements; explanatory material; and personal name and geographic indexes. All of the information contained in the Modzalevskii-Sivers dictionary that was not found to be incorrect is repeated in the new, greatly enlarged biographical dictionary, and there are entries for 20 "new" Decembrists (persons not represented in the 1925 volume). The entries are arranged as follows: 1. names, dates, positions held at the time of the uprising; 2. information about the individual's life before the uprising, including social origin, place of birth, parents, education, service history, property held, involvement in cultural societies and Freemasonry; 3. membership and date of entry in secret societies, participa- tion in the uprising or reason for inclusion in the Borovkov list or Modzalevskii-Sivers supplement; 4. arrest and imprisonment; 5. sen- tence and subsequent life, including place of death and burial; 6. information on wife, chil- dren, and siblings; 7. references to relevant passages in the published minutes of the investigative commission and to archival materials concerning subsequent surveillance. -MS

Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917. By Wolfgang Kasack. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. 502 pp. $55.00. LC 87-20838. Wolfgang Kasack's Lexikon der russischen

Literatur ab 1917 (1976) and the supplement (1986) have been recognized as an excellent reference source for post-1917 Russian literature. It contains more authors for the period than either Victor Terras's Handbook of Rus- sian Literature or Harry Weber's "Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Litera- ture" (in progress). Coverage includes emigre as well as Soviet writers. Only literary authors are represented; critics, scholars, and translators appear only if they have produced fic- tion, poetry, or drama as well. The 619 author entries contain biographical information and a summary of the author's literary career. In addition to the usual biographical data, there is information on father's occupation, course of study, beginning of literary activity, membership in the communist party, date of emigration (if applicable), pseudonyms used, and position in writers' unions. The translation reads smoothly, and the bibliographic appa- ratus is accurate and easily decipherable. The

dictionary also has 87 entries of a topical na- ture, covering journals, almanacs, literary organizations, circles, movements, and other phenomena. Access is enhanced by both name and subject indexes.-RB

L' emigration russe: Revues et recueils, 1920- 1980: Index general des articles. Compiled by T. L. Gladkova et al. Edited by T. L. Gladkova and T. A. Osorgina. La Bib- liotheque russe Tourguenev. La Bibliothe- que de documentation internationale con- temporaine. Bibliotheque russe de l'Institut d'6tudes slaves, vol. 81. Paris: Institut d'etudes slaves, 1988. xxii, 661 pp. Nearly 1,400 volumes of 45 periodicals and

16 collections published in Paris, Berlin, Prague, New York, Brussels, Munich, Tel Aviv, and Toronto between 1920 and 1980 were analyzed for this index. Weeklies, dailies, and publications found to be incomplete in Paris libraries are not included. Arrangement of the 25,260 citations is alphabetical by author. Unsigned articles, editorial columns, in- terviews, book reviews, and obituaries are listed alphabetically by title under these categories in a separate section. Except for an index of personal names mentioned in the titles of the articles analyzed, there is no subject access. -MS

Gazeta "Sanktpeterburgskie vedomosti" XVIII veka: Ukazateli k soderzhaniiu. Compiled by M. I. Fundaminskii. A. I. Kopanev, chief editor. Leningrad: Biblioteka Akade- mii nauk SSSR, 1987. Volume for 1728- 1731: 167 pp. 70 kopecks. LC 88-174482. Volume for 1774: 208 pp. 90 kopecks. LC 88-191257. This project represents perhaps the most

ambitious Soviet retrospective indexing effort of the last quarter century. Sanktpeterburgskie vedomosti, published from 1728 to 1917, was the most important newspaper of eighteenth century Russia, rivaled only at midcentury by Moskovskie vedomosti. These two volumes constitute the first of a series of indexes, each volume of which will cover a four-year to five- year period. The exception is the volume for 1774, which was prepared along with the volume for 1728-1731 in order to demonstrate the strength of the indexing technique used, as well as to represent the varied content of the




newspaper at that later period. Each volume contains several indexes, providing access to subjects, Russian geographic names, St. Petersburg place names, personal names, categories of persons, professions, economic and cultural activities, and institutions. The com- pilers' supreme achievement was the estab- lishment of a citation code that would unam- biguously point to location of given items in the newspaper. This fact was particularly diffi- cult because of the peculiarities of pagination within the newspaper. As a result of these indexes, Sanktpeterburgskie vedomosti will now be more easily used as a primary source for eighteenth century Russian history and as a treasure of biographical information for that period. The next volume planned will cover the years 1732-1735.-RB

Maksim Gorky. A Reference Guide. By Edith W. Clowes. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987. 226 pp. $35.00. LC 87-20. The goal of this annotated bibliography, the

first, such guide in English, was "to encourage recent efforts at a reassessment by presenting a large variety of approaches and evaluations and by raising as many questions about Gorky's life aiid art as possible." It was, therefore, not intended to duplicate Soviet bibliographic guides to Gor'kii's writings and the secondary literature on Gor'kii. The guide is divided into four parts: an excellent scholarly introduction to Gor'kii that focuses on "patterns in critical reading and biography writing;" the bibliography, arranged chronologically, of Gor'kii's writings; a bibliography, also arranged chronologically, of secondary literature; and the author and subject indexes. The major Soviet critical approaches, as well as western and emigre writings, are represented. Soviet mem- oirs and published documentary materials are also included.-RB

Periodicheskaia pechat' v Rossii v 1917 godu: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Compiled by T. S. Grigor'iants et al. L. A. Shilov, chief editor. Leningrad: Gosudarstvennaia pub- lichnaia biblioteka imeni M. E. Saltykova- Shchedrina, 1987. 3 vols. LC 88-150743. L. K. Il'inskii's Spisok povremennykh izda-

nii za 1917 god (1919) was heretofore the only available source for serial publications of 1917. Now the Publichka has issued a work

covering the same territory that Il'inskii did, but with greater depth and scope. The work is arranged alphabetically by latest title. Cross- references from earlier and later (post-1917) titles are included. Coverage is provided for all newspapers, journals, and continuations issued on Russian territory for the calendar year 1917. Each entry gives the date the serial began publication and indicates whether it continued past 1917. Issues published in 1917 are listed for each title. The bibliography is contained in volumes 1 and 2; volume 3 consists of indexes of personal names, titles listed by place of publication, and issuing bodies. Items not examined de visu are so noted. -RB

Pushkin i ego okruzhenie. By L. A. Chereiskii. 2d ed. Leningrad: Nauka, 1988. 544 pp. 6 rubles. This invaluable dictionary of Pushkin's per-

sonal acquaintances and associates has been revised and expanded by 25 pages over the 1975 edition, incorporating the wealth of pub- lishing commemorating the 175th anniversary of Pushkin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his death. Some 200 entries have been added to the 2,500 included in the first edition, and an unspecified number of entries has been revised to reflect newly uncovered material and critical reassessments. For each entry basic biographical information is followed by a detailed account of the individual's contact with Pushkin, documented with references to published and archival sources. In many cases citations to reproductions of portraits are given. An asterisk at the head of an entry denotes an individual whose association with Pushkin has been posited but not definitely estab- lished.-MS

Slovar' russkikh pisatelei XVIII veka. Vol. 1:A-I. A. M. Panchenko, chief editor. Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury (Pushkinskii dom). Leningrad: Nauka, 1988. 356 pp. 2.20 rubles. In preparation for more than a decade, the

first volume of this biobibliographical dictionary of eighteenth century Russian writers is the product of exhaustive research using both published and archival source materials. When completed the three-volume set will contain 900 entries, representing poets, prose writers, dramatists, translators, essayists, publishers,



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clerics, historians, and philosophers. Because there is comprehensive bibliographic control (nicely summarized in the introduction) of eighteenth century Russian publications, the emphasis is on biographical information. Each entry is followed by a selective list of published sources used; generally the lesser known the individual, the more extensive the bibliography of sources. Extensive parenthetical references to archival materials and published documents are included in the texts of the entries. Each entry is signed by the compiler.-MS

Soviet Law in English: Research Guicle and Bibliography, 1970-1987. By Igor I. Kavass. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein, 1988. vii, 653 pp. $48.50. LC 87-83674. This guide to publications in English on So-

viet law brings together about 1,600 items drawn from a wide range of sources. It is aimed at a wide audience-general readers, students, and specialists-and should be wel- comed by all three groups. The opening chapter, "Researching Soviet Law," is a bibliographic essay and is followed by a checklist of subject headings and a substantial subject bibliography. The volume concludes with a checklist of authors and a bibliography by author; most entries have annotations (some extensive). The two bibliographies may be con- sulted independently or linked, as needed: A user might identify items of interest in the subject bibliography and then learn more about those items by consulting the author bibliography. Conversely, a user might begin with a known author and then consult the subject bibliography for other works on a given topic.-MTC

Soviet Serials Currently Received at the Cen- ter for Research Libraries: A Checklist. Compiled by Sergei P. Ignashev. Chicago: Center for Research Libraries, 1988. ii, 197 pp. Foremost among the new features of the

third edition of this work are indexes of mono- graphic series, serials published by the academies of science of the Soviet republics, serial publications not issued by academies, and several subject indexes. The majority of the titles in the list are from the Academy of Sciences and are published either by Nauka or by the academy institutes themselves. Many of the

titles are in the sciences and technology, but the social sciences and humanities are also well represented. The entries give place and frequency of publication, OCLC number, type of publication (academy, republic academy, or nonacademy), language of text, summaries, and table of contents, and number of holding libraries as of a given date. Altogether this checklist covers 1,196 Soviet periodicals, ir- regular serials, annual, and numbered mono- graphic series received at CRL as of 1 August 1988.-SKB

UKRAINE

Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and Moldavia. Book 1. General Bibliography and Institutional Di- rectory. By Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. liii, 1107 pp. $125. LC 87-27301. The latest of Patricia Grimsted's monu-

mental series of guides to archives and manuscript collections in the Soviet Union which began in 1972 with a Moscow and Leningrad volume and continued with the 1982 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belorussia guide dem- onstrates once again her amazing enterprise, erudition, and ability to organize a vast amount of information to produce an outstand- ing and sorely needed reference work. The book has a useful appendix on archival or- ganization and access and another covering "Geographic Names for Soviet Ukraine and Moldavia." Separate indexes by author, title, and subject are well conceived and exe- cuted.-LHM

Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibli- ography. By Paul Robert Magocsi. Vol. 1:1975-1984. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 824. New York: Garland, 1988. viii, 143 pp. LC 87-29288. This volume presents 649 annotated entries

for books and periodical articles dealing with Ukrainians living in the Carpathian region (Karpats'ka oblast) of the Ukrainian RSR, Lemko region (Lemkivshchyna) in Poland and Czechoslovakia, as well as those in Yugo- slavia and Czechoslovakia, especially in eastern Slovakia. The bibliography also deals with small groups of people identified as Rusyns, particularly those in the Presov region (eastern




Slovakia) and Yugoslavia. A number of items in this bibliography also relate to Carpatho- Ruthenian communities in the United States and Canada. The volume annotates works published in eighteen languages, especially in Ukrainian (233 items). Appendixes include transliteration tables and counts of the entries by language and place of publication and by subject. There is a combined index of personal and place names and subjects.-DMS

A Guide to the Archival and Manuscript Col- lection of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., New York City: A Detailed Inventory. By Yury Boshyk. Ca- nadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Uni- versity of Alberta. Research Report no. 30. Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1988. xiii, 137 pp. As the compiler notes in the introduction,

the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences "houses the most comprehensive and important archival and manuscript collection on Ukrainians outside Ukraine." This archive, which was recently cataloged, is organized in three sections: publications, documents and manuscripts, and artifacts. The present guide is an inventory of documents and manuscripts of indivduals as well as those of certain institutions and community organizations. Arranged alphabetically by personal or corporate name, each entry provides the following information: name, source, subject, dates covered, quan- tity, status (cataloged, partially cataloged, arranged, unarranged), condition, location, call number, biographical data about the collector, and description of holdings. There are also short descriptions of the sound archives and map collection. -NJL

Publications by Ukrainian "Displaced Per- sons" and Political Refugees, 1945-1954 in the John Luczkiw Collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto: A Bibliography. By Yury Boshyk and Wlodzimierz Kiebalo. Canadian Insti- tute of Ukrainian Studies. University of Al- berta. Research Report no. 29. Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1988. viii, 398 pp. Housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Li-

brary at the University of Toronto, the John Luczkiw Collection of publications by Ukrai-

nian displaced persons and political refugees of the years 1945-1954 includes some 1,600 items, including monographs, pamphlets, and serials. This bibliography is divided into three parts: an alphabetical listing by author or title; a classified listing in eighteen broad categories; and an alphabetical listing of serials by title, with notes on specific holdings. Local ac- cession numbers are cited for each item to facilitate access to the collection.-NJL

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology. Compiled and edited by Osyp Zinkewycz and Andrew Sorokowski. New York: Smoloskyp Pub- lishers and the National Committee to Com- memorate the Millenium of Christianity in Ukraine, 1988. 312 pp. $40.00. LC 88-6 1255. This work is divided into ten chapters trac-

ing the evolution of Christianity in Ukraine. The main focus is on the early Middle Ages, especially from 988 (when Christianity was adopted in Kievan Rus' by Volodymyr the Great), to the second half of the twentieth century. Each chapter is subdivided into four sections: general characteristics of the period, chronology, principal ecclesiastical activities, and church and monastery construction. The development of Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Roman Catholic churches, as well as other denominations in Ukraine and abroad, is chronicled in detail. Special chapters de- scribe Ukrainian churches in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and western Europe. Two lists, "Hierarchies of the Ukrainian Churches" and "Rulers of Ukraine," are appended. There is a brief bibliography and a combined subject and name index.-DMS

"Ukrainian Lands" Maps in the University of Alberta Map Collection: A Cartobibliogra- phy. By Paul T. Friesen. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. University of Alberta. Research Report no. 24. Edmonton, Al- berta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Stud- ies, 1988. xii, 44 pp. and 31 leaves of appendixes. This bibliography includes maps that depict

all or a large portion of Ukraine or whose primary focus is some portion of Ukraine. The compiler has devised a citation format consist-



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ing of the following: map identification, state- ment of responsibility, imprint, mathematical data, and physical description. The entries are divided into five categories: inclusive maps, regional maps, town plans, map series, and atlases. Within these categories, entries are arranged by date of situation. Index sheets for relevant items from map series are appended.-NJL

YUGOSLAVIA

Bibliografija radova o narodnooslobodilacvkom ratu i revoluciji u Jugoslaviji (1941-1945): 1945-1980.By Radmila Radonjic and Inesa Jurjeva. Nardona biblioteka Srbije; Vsesoi- uznaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka inostran- noi literatury. Belgrade: Narodna biblioteka Srbije, 1987. 432 pp. A collaboration between the Serbian Na-

tional Library and the State Foreign Literature Library in Moscow, this extensive bibliography focuses on works about the history of Yugoslavia during World War II published in the USSR as well as in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Within the scope of this bibliography are books, journal articles, and conference proceedings. Works of literature were ex- cluded. Most of the 1,858 entries are accompanied by concise annotations in Serbo- Croatian and Russian. Personal name, title,

geographic name, and language of publication indexes are included.-IF

Enciklopedija Slovenija. Edited by Tone Bole et al. Josip Vidmar, chief editor. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. Vol. 1 :A-Ca. 1987. 421 pp. Vol. 2:Ce-Ed. 1988. 416 pp. This multivolume regional encyclopedia

provides a wealth of information on the history, culture, personalities, and institutions of Slovenia. The alphabetically arranged signed articles were written by specialists and acade- micians and include bibliographies. This very attractive publication is enhanced by extensive colored maps and illustrations.-IF

Veliki geografski atlas Jugoslavije. Edited by Ivan Bertic. Zagreb: Sveucilisna naklada Liber, 1987. 272 pp. LC 88-144194/MAP. In addition to fourteen regional well-

indexed topographic maps of Yugoslavia (scale 1:500,000), this attractively designed publication includes extensive articles about the history, climate, economy, politics, de- mography, and culture of the country. As such it combines features of an atlas and a subject encyclopedia. Each article is accompanied by a variety of color maps, statistical data, and color illustrations. A substantial part of the publication is devoted to statistical tables that provide historical perspective on the economic and cultural development of Yugoslavia.-IF



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