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REFERENCE BOOKS

Reference Books of 2006-2007: A Selection

Laurence H. Miller

Specialists in the Slavic and East European Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana

Champaign have contributed to this annual column. This year's contributors are Jan Ad

amczyk, Robert Howerton, Laurence Miller, Claudia Serbanuta, and Oksana Zavalina.

Czech Republic

Cestami kfestansk? politiky: Biograficky slovn?k k dejin?m kresfanskych stran v ceskych zemich. By

Michal Pehr et al. Prague: Akropolis, 2007. 373 pp.

This biographical dictionary is the first of a planned two volumes commemorating, in

2009, the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak People's Party and

dealing with the history of the Catholic political movement in the Czech lands. Biogra

phies of the major past and present figures in the party, now the Christian and Democratic

Union?Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU?CSL), are included in this work. Many of

the entries have photographs or caricatures and the book provides

a bibliography, local

archival information, chronologies, and other facts about the movement. A supplemen

tary section of illustrations includes additional photographs, posters, and other materials

from the party archives.?LM

Poland

Bibliograf?a genealogii i heraldyky polskiej za lata 1980-2001. By A. Celej. Warsaw: DiG, 2006.

391 pp.

This is the first post-World War II bibliography focusing on Polish genealogy and her

aldry. The open-access keyword-searchable electronic database version of this guide is

located at www.dig.pl/biblio/index.html (last accessed 6 May 2008). The bibliography consists of over 2,000 complete descriptions created according to Polish bibliographic

standards and covers monographs, pamphlets, and periodical articles published in Poland

and abroad between 1980 and 2001. Entries are arranged alphabetically. When subjects

are not obvious from the title and for publications in languages other than Polish, en

tries include subject headings. If appropriate, entries are followed by references to related

publications: reviews, other editions, reprints, and the like. Three indexes?of personal

and family names, geographic names, and coats of arms?and a five-page list of cited

periodical publications complete the work. For researchers and general readers in

terested in Polish genealogy and heraldry, this bibliography is an important source of

information.? OZ

Tekstylia bis: Slownik mlodej polskiej kultury. Ed. Piotr Marecki. Krakow: Halart, 2006.

823 pp.

This work continues Tekstylia: O "rocznikach siedemdziesiqtych" (2002), an anthology of Pol

ish literature by young authors. The current publication is a guide to Polish youth culture

Slavic Review 67, no. 3 (Fall 2008)

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in general. As representatives of youth culture, the compilers selected artists mainly born

in the 1970s and 1980s. More than a thousand individual, group, and corporate entries

in this guide are organized into seven broad categories: film (documentary, animated,

and independent), comics, literature (drama, poetry, and prose fiction), music (tradi

tional, alternative, and hip hop), art (painting, sculpture, architecture and design, in

stallation, Internet, performance, photography), theater, and ideas. Entries are arranged

alphabetically within these sections and subsections, each of which opens with a brief

introduction. Biographical entries provide name, year of birth, education, genre (s) in

which the person works, overview of career, list of performances, films, exhibits, and so

on. Photographs accompany most of the articles. When appropriate, entries are accom

panied by a brief selected bibliography. An index of personal and corporate names is

included, and biographical sketches of the contributors are provided. The compilers see

this guide as a resource for anyone interested in Polish youth culture as an interdisciplin

ary phenomenon.? OZ

Romania

Au ales libertatea! Dic?ionar 2.265 de fise personale din evidencie Securita\ii. Ed. Institutul

National pentru Memoria Exilului Rom?nese. Bucharest: Editura Pro Historia, 2007.

838 pp.

Based on a bulletin published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Romanian Peoples'

Republic in 1960, this biographical dictionary presents in alphabetical order short dos

siers of 2,265 individuals who left Romania and chose exile during and after World War II.

These people were considered to have betrayed the country. Entries include name, date

and place of birth, names of parents, education, place of work, last residence, distinctive

physical characteristics, names and addresses of relatives, and information on why the

person left Romania and for what destination. In addition the number and location of

their Securitate file is given. Most of the entries are accompained by photographs. The

dictionary follows the graphic layout of the original bulletin.? CS

Enciclopedia g?ndirii aforistice rom?nesti. By Marin Buc?. Bucharest: Editura Tehnic?, 2006.

1,453 pp.

The noted lexicographer Marin Buc? has compiled this comprehensive encyclopedia of

aphorisms from the works of 400 Romanian writers from the sixteenth through the twenti

eth centuries. The quotations are organized by themes such as: truth, art, goodness, kind

ness, culture, civilization, faith, justice, eternity, happiness, philosophy, beauty, history, love, misery, freedom, literature, death, work, unhappiness, poetry, friendship, honesty, time, life, and hate. In each section the aphorisms appear alphabetically by the name of the author. An index of writers, a bibliography (including previous dictionaries and col lections of aphorisms), and a list of abbreviations are included.? CS

Russia

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn: Materialy k biobibliografii. Chief ed. N. G. Zakharenko.

St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2007. 800 pp.

This authoritative international bibliography of Russian-language works was prepared by the Russian National Library. The bibliography contains some 8,559 entries and consists of

three main parts. The first part includes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's works, both literary and

commentary, appearing in books, periodicals, and multiauthored collections, with each

subdivision arranged chronologically. An alphabetical list of his works is also included.

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The second and largest portion of the book, about 420 pages, provides a record of works

about Solzhenitsyn's life and writings, arranged by year. The third part contains literary works that discuss or refer to Solzhenitsyn. Also included are a brief (thirteen-page) bio

graphy of Solzhenitsyn, a

topical index that groups bibliographic entries by various themes

in Solzhenitsyn's biography and works, an index of names, and six pages of black-and

white photographs.?RH

Chleny Gosudarstvennogo Soveta Rossiiskoi Imperii 1801-1906: Biobibliograficheskii spravochnik.

By D. N. Shilov and lu. A. Kuz'min. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2007. 992 pp.

Earlier biobibliographical works by these authors covered some members of the State

Council, and those individuals are not included in this monumental scholarly volume

that provides information on the members of the Russian imperial government in the

nineteenth century. Exhaustive coverage of the service records, awards, and other public activities of the subjects is combined with copious archival and bibliographic references.

A chronological listing and extensive genealogical index are among the added features of

this essential historical reference work.?LM

Etnografiia buriatskogo naroda: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1768-2002. Comp. M. M. Spektor, L. D. Palii, and L. S. Imelikhova. Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 2006. 559 pp.

This publication is the most comprehensive bibliography to date of works on the ethnog

raphy of Buriats and Mongols. It covers more than 6,700 Russian-language books, peri odical articles, and chapters from collected volumes published in the Russian empire, the

Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation between 1768 and 2002. The guide also covers

selected publications dealing with the ethnography of neighboring and related peoples:

Kalmyks, Tuvans, Evenks, Iakuts, and others. Researchers from the Buriat Research Cen

ter and others in the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Division selected materials

based on research value. This bibliography merges the data from two previously published

bibliographies covering the period from 1768 to 1976?Etnografiia buriatskogo naroda: Bib

liograficheskii ukazatel' literatury, 1917-1976 gg. (1999) and Etnografiia buriatskogo naroda:

Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' literatury, do 1917 g. (2002)?and provides new data covering the

period from 1977 to 2002. The bibliography is organized chronologically into two parts:

pre-1917 publications and 1917-2002 publications. Part 1 is subdivided into fourteen sub

ject sections, while part 2 consists of nineteen subject sections such as general works, the

history of Buriat and Mongol ethnography, museums and archives, archaeology, anthro

pology, ethnogeny and demography, economy, material culture, social order, government

and law, family and social life, rites and rituals, language and literature, folklore, education

and apprenticeship (including Tibetan medicine), religion, art, research and scholarship,

biography, and bibliography. Within the subject sections and subsections, entries are ar

ranged alphabetically. A personal name index enhances access. This bibliography is a

valuable reference work for researchers studying the ethnic and cultural history of eastern

Siberia and Central Asia.? OZ

Gosudarstvennaia vlast' dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii v biografiiakh

ee predstavitelei XIX-nachalo

XX v.: Ukazatel' trudov, literatury o zhizni i deiatel'nosti. Ed. A. A. Liberman. Moscow:

Indrik, 2006. Vol. 1 (1801-1855). 845 pp.

This bibliography of primary and secondary published sources begins with a general

sec

tion (610 entries), followed by sections on Alexander I (1,488 entries) and Nicholas I

(854 entries). An additional 2,084 entries are devoted to the twenty most important and

influential government officials of the period arranged alphabetically from Aleksei An

dreevich Arakcheev and Aleksandr Khristoforovich Benkendorf to Aleksandr Ivanovich

Chernyshev. Supplements include 168 foreign-language sources held by the State Public

Historical Library in Moscow and the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, a list of

299 Russian works published from 2002 to 2004, and a portrait section. A 66-page author

and personal name index is provided. This work provides the necessary basic bibliographic

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and reference apparatus for research on topics and individuals in Russian history largely

overlooked during the Soviet period.?LM

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv: Putevoditel'. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006.

Vol. 1.512 pp.

This is the first of four planned volumes in the latest guide to the Russian State Military

History Archive. This volume contains descriptions of archival fonds with materials con

cerning all levels of the Russian military command, from the eighteenth to the begin

ning of the twentieth century. The guide starts with the fonds of the highest and central

institutions of the Russian military structure, such as the Imperial Military Chancellery;

Imperial General Staff and its directorates; Ministry of War and its departments; as well as

various military committees, commissions, and societies. The second part treats the fonds

of the local military commands and their subordinate institutions. The material is divided

by military district, oblast', and fortress, and further down to the level of a fortified posi tion and garrison. The command of border, Cossack, artillery, and engineering units is

treated separately. This part also contains the fonds of general governors and military gov ernors. Part 3 includes the fonds of armies, corps, and detachments; documents from the

eighteenth-century generals' chancelleries; as well as archival material concerning various

lower-level staffs and formations. Presented in part 4 are various special collections of the

archive, such as the cartographic documents collection and materials related to the history of foreign countries. The guide is accompanied by

an alphabetical list of institutions whose

materials are housed in the archive. A name index is also provided.?JA

Russkie deti: Osnovy narodnoi pedagogiki: Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia. Ed. I. I. Shangina. St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo?SPB, 2006. 566 pp.

A team of scholars from the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg compiled this attractive popular scholarly encyclopedia

on child-rearing traditions in rural Russia.

The articles are signed and include substantial bibliographies with some archival refer

ences. Editor 1.1. Shangina wrote the introductory essay and compiled the 175-page sup

plement on children's folklore that follows the main dictionary section (about 375 pages). The encyclopedia is illustrated with line drawings.?LM

Slovar' sovremennogo molodezhnogo zhargona. By M. A. Grachev. Moscow: "EKSMO," 2006.

666 pp.

Part of the series Biblioteka slovarei, this dictionary contains more than 6,000 entries of

slang terms popularized by Russian youth. Numerous groups within the youth culture are

represented, for example, schoolchildren and students at all levels of study, all branches

of the military, hippies, punks, hip hop fans, musicians, and even fans of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Each entry provides information about the origin of the term, the group or groups among whom it is used, and the approximate date of its first appearance. Also included are a

guide for using the dictionary and a list of sources.?RH

Sobstvennoe imia v russkoi poezii XX veka: Slovar' lichnykh imen. Comp. V. P. Grigor'ev, L. I. Kolodiazhnaia, and L. L. Shestakova. Moscow: Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk, 2005.

447 pp.

Containing more than 3,000 entries, this dictionary covers personal names found in

the works of ten major twentieth-century Russian poets: Innokentii Annenskii, Anna

Akhmatova, Aleksandr Blok, Sergei Esenin, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandel'shtam, Vladi

mir Maiakovskii, Boris Pasternak, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Marina Tsvetaeva. Each entry identifies the name, quotes the relevant lines, and refers to the poet, year of publica tion, and page number in the source volume. The dictionary covers many types of names,

for example, historical figures, fictional characters, deities and religious figures, names

appearing as initials only, and names appearing as acrostics. Also included are a guide for using the work, a list of abbreviations, and source publications for each of the ten

poets.?RH

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