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REFERENCE BOOKS ____________________________________________________

Reference Books of 2009–2010: A Selection

Laurence H. Miller

Slavic and east European specialists at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana- Champaign have contributed to this annual column. This year’s contributors are Jan Ad-amczyk, Joseph Lenkart, Helen Sullivan, and Laurence Miller.

Belarus

Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Gomel�skoi oblasti: Putevoditel�. Comp. V. N. Nadezhina and T. F. Pozd-niak. Minsk: Natsional�nyi arkhiv Respubliki Belarus�, 2009. 588 pp.

The fi rst guide to this archive was issued in 1970: Gosudarstvennye arkhivy Gomel�skoi i Mogi-levskoi oblastei. In the last forty years a great deal of material has been added to the archive making this update very useful. Established in 1919, the archive for the Gomelskoi oblast, Belarus, holds many of the important political and economic documents for the region, some 2,685 fonds and 500,000 dela as of January 2009. In this volume, there are brief descriptions of 2,243 fonds. The guide is divided into sections that refl ect the archive’s political and governmental focus, including fi nance and economics, industry, publishing, trade, education, culture, sports, law, public health, political and religious organizations, and a special section on the Nazi occupation during World War II. The guide includes a geographic and a topical index. A 3-page section at the end provides an overview of the personal archival materials included in this volume.—HS

Bulgaria

60 godini Institut za literatura: Iubileen sbornik, 1948–2008. Chief ed. Ivan Sarandev. Sofi a: Izdatelski tsentr “Boian Penev,” 2009. 666 pp.

Celebrating 140 years since the founding of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, this sixti-eth anniversary biobibliographical work begins with an 80-page history of the Academy’s Institute of Literature. The major part of the book is a biobibliography of about 420 pages arranged alphabetically by individual scholar. This is preceded by a detailed listing (not indexed) of all of the Institute’s periodical and monographic publications, including the contents of collected works.—LM

Kyrgyzstan

Aitmatov aalamy: Bibliografi ialyk e·ntsiklopediia. Vselennaia Aitmatova: Bibliografi cheskaia entsi-klopediia. Ed. Zh. Aisarakunova, Zh. K. Bakashova, and O. S. Sukhomlinova. Bishkek:

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Kyrgyz Respublikasynyn uluttuk kitepkanasy, Zhusupbek Bakiev atyndagy Koomduk fondu, 2009. 493 pp.

This extensive bibliography of Chinghiz Aitmatov is divided into two distinct parts. The fi rst part lists 1,098 works in Kyrgyz, and the second part includes 2,231 entries for Russian works. Each part has an index of authors and titles of works by and about Aitmatov includ-ing books, parts of books, articles, and dissertation abstracts. In the Russian section some 220 individual literary works by Aitmatov appear in reverse chronological order. A section of translations arranged by language includes only languages of the former Soviet Union. Sixteen photographs of Aitmatov complement the bibliographic entries.—LM

Macedonia

Bibliografi ja na folklorot i etnologijata vo Makedonija. Comp. Bone Velickovski. Posebni iz-danija, vol. 78. Skopje: Institut za Folklor “Marko K. Cepenkov,” 2010. 202 pp.

This selective bibliography includes 2,102 entries in Cyrillic followed by 338 Latin alphabet citations. The scholarly books and articles are mainly from the last sixty years with occa-sional earlier works and reprints of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century books. The work includes both a detailed subject index (42 pages) and an author index.—LM

Fjalor i zhargoneve dhe eufemizmave shqiptare. By Mustafa Ibrahimi. Shkup: “Interlingua,” 2009. 250 pp.

Students in the gymnasiums in Tetovo and Gostivar and in Shkup (Skopje) University were informants for this dictionary of Albanian jargon and euphemisms. A scholarly introduc-tion is followed by the main wordlist (pp. 34 –207). The supplementary features include a bibliography, a highly selective thematic index-glossary of Albanian slang, and a list of 28 Web sites devoted to Albanian language and linguistics.—LM

Makedonska enciklopedija. Enciklopedia Macedonica. Chief ed. Blaž e Ristovski. Skopje: Make-donska akademija na naukite i umetnostite, 2009. 2 vols. (1,671 pp.)

This attractively designed and profusely illustrated encyclopedia provides excellent cov-erage of Macedonian history and culture. All of the articles are signed, and most have bibliographical references. The biographies of Macedonian authors contain more sub-stantial bibliographies. Prominent Macedonian scientists, artists, athletes, musicians, and others are, of course, included along with contemporary foreign politicians who have played a part in the political and economic life of the country. Foreign scholars of Mace-donian culture and language are also included (Horace G. Lunt and Vladimir Ivanovich Lamanskii appear on facing pages). Native animals, insects, and plants are well covered with many color illustrations. There is also good coverage of Macedonian journals and newspapers.—LM

Moldova

Dictionarul scriitorilor români din Basarabia 1812–2010. By Valeriu Nazar et al. Muzeul Lit-eraturii Române “Mihail Kogalniceanu.” 2d rev. ed. Chisinau: Editura PRUT Inter-national, 2010. 599 pp.

The brief scholarly biobibliographical articles on Bessarabian authors in this book are signed by the contributors, and the citations of works by and about the subjects provide a useful starting point for further research on these writers.—LM

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Poland

Czeslaw Miłosz: Bibliografi a druków zwartych. Comp. Agnieszka Kosinska, with Jacka Błacha and Kamila Kasperka. Krakow: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Edukacyjne, Ofi cyna Wydawnicza AFM; Warsaw: Instytut Dokumentacji i Studiow nad Literatura Polska, Oddz. Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie, 2009. lxx, 815 pp.

This fi rst complete bibliography of Czesław Miłosz’s oeuvre was compiled by Agnieszka Kosinska, his personal secretary and the custodian of Miłosz’s archive in Kraków. This mas-sive volume lists all of the author’s writings, both in Polish and in translation, including those published not subject to censorship. As the subtitle indicates, works that appeared in periodicals and anthologies are excluded. What is listed, however, covers a wide spectrum of publications, including translations, editorial work, correspondence, interviews (includ-ing the fi lmed ones), and a host of miscellanea. The hallmark of the bibliography consists of the extremely rich annotations provided for even the smallest of items. The level of detail is impressive—described are minutiae such as mottos of works and descriptions of false title pages and covers that helped the samizdat-published works to be smuggled into Poland. The indexing is extremely thorough—in a section of more than 300 pages the work provides indexes of titles, personal names, and titles of journals. The introductions are in Polish and English, and an appendix contains facsimiles of manuscripts and an essay, “Czesław Miłosz a bibliografi a polska” (Czesław Miłosz and Polish Literary Bibliography) by Jadwiga Czachowska. This much-anticipated work is a must for all Miłosz specialists, who can also look forward to follow-up volumes, promised by Agnieszka Kosinska, which will include the material omitted from this already outstanding effort.—JA

Romania

Enciclopedia exilului literar românesc 1945–1989: Scriitori, reviste, institutii, organizatii. By Flo-rin Manolescu. 2d rev. ed. Bucharest: Compania, 2010. 830 pp.

One of the principal virtues of this scholarly reference book is the extensive bibliographi-cal coverage of its subjects. The 13-page article on the exiled philosopher and essayist Emil Cioran, for example, concludes with nearly 4 pages of bibliographic citations. In addition to the biobibliographical entries, which often have black-and-white portraits or carica-tures, the encyclopedia contains articles on émigré libraries and other cultural institutions, as well as journals and literary groups. An index of personal names is included.—LM

Russia

Dmitrii Medvedev: Tretii Prezident. Entsiklopediia. By Nikolai Zenkovich. Moscow: Olma Me-dia Grupp, 2009. 512 pp.

Anyone seeking information about the individuals who infl uenced the third president of the Russian Federation, Dmitrii Medvedev, will fi nd at least some information in this vol-ume. From his primary school teachers to his favorite singers and writers, there are entries for any and all who Medvedev felt had infl uenced him in some way. The entries vary in length, often providing a great deal of brief factual information, but no bibliographical references. Each entry includes a short statement on the signifi cance the person held for Medvedev. Among the political and historical fi gures, foreign and domestic, are Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Petr Stolypin, Vladimir Lenin, and Iosif Stalin. Among more contemporary fi gures one can fi nd A. A. Gromov, Condoleezza Rice, V. M. Lebedev, Vladimir Putin, and many others. The volume concludes with an index of personal names.—HS

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Islam v tsentral�no-evropeiskoi chasti Rossii: Entsiklopedicheskii slovar�. Ed. D. Z. Khairetdinov. Is-lam v Rossiiskoi Federatsii, vol. 4. Moscow: Izdatel�skii dom “Medina,” 2009. 403 pp.

Since the publication of M. Tret�iakov’s work, Ukazatel� russkoi literatury po izucheniiu musul�manstva i prosveshcheniiu inorodtsev Rossii (Moscow, 1914), there have been a number of helpful sources for researching “Islam in Russia” and Russian Muslims. This title is part of a projected 12-volume set, which also includes the following: Islam na Nizhegorodchine (2007); Islam v Moskve (2008); Islam v Sankt-Peterburge (2009); Islam na Urale (2009); and the following volumes planned for publication by 2012: Islam v Povolzh�e, Islam v Tatarstane, Islam v Bashkortostane, Islam v Dagestane, Islam na Severo-Zapadnom Kavkaze, Islam v Chechne, Ingushetii i Osetii, and Islam v Sibiri i na Dal�nem Vostoke. This encyclopedia of Islam in the central European part of Russia contains approximately 500 entries covering signifi cant events, personalities, and the historiography of Islam and Muslims (past and present) in nineteen regions. According to the editor, it is the work of almost 50 authors, including archeologists, historians, ethnologists, journalists, philosophers, and activists in Muslim or-ganizations. It covers all historical stages of Islam and Muslims in this area and their inter-actions and contributions to the history of Russia. Researchers will welcome the fact that each entry is signed and accompanied by full bibliographic citations for further study. The compilers have included an abbreviations list, alphabetical lists of contributors and article titles, a thematic index, an index of regions, and an alphabetical list of articles from previ-ous volumes in the series. This encyclopedia would be an excellent addition to any research library reference collection and a starting point for any student of Islam in Russia.—JL

Istoricheskaia entsiklopediia Sibiri. Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk. Sibirskoe Otdelenie. Institut Istorii. Novosibirsk: “Istoricheskoe nasledie Sibiri,” 2009. 3 vols. 715, 807, 783 pp.

With more than 4,000 signed articles on the history of Siberia from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, this is a fi ne reference source. Its predecessor Sibirskaia Sovetskaia En-tsiklopediia was published in the 1920s. The new three-volume publication is in the tradi-tion of scholarly encyclopedias in Russia. The alphabetically arranged articles all include bibliographic entries and cover a variety of topics: archeology, early history of the region, ethnography, historical sciences, historical demography, political history, regional gov-ernmental structure, economics of the region, and education. There are topical surveys throughout the volumes with overviews of specifi c areas such as geology in Siberia, climate and natural resources of the region, and the like. Volume 3 includes an index by region of those of the voevod rank; merchants of the fi rst and second guild; a biographical listing of the Decembrists of Siberia and Kazakhstan; those awarded the order of St. George dur-ing the Chinese campaign (1900–1901), Russo-Japanese war, and World War I; members of the church hierarchy; Duma members from 1906 –1917; and heroes of the socialist struggle from 1943 –1991. In all there are more than 150 pages of information in this fi nal section of the encyclopedia, which could, unfortunately, easily be overlooked since there is no index to the volumes.—HS

Ivan Fedorov: Nachalo knigopechataniia na Rusi. Opisanie izdanii i ukazatel� literatury. By E. L. Nemirovskii. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. 341 pp.

Published on the fi ve hundredth anniversary of his presumed birth year of 1510, this scholarly bibliography of the fi rst Russian printer has a 12-page union catalog of his print-ing followed by 3,389 bibliographic entries arranged chronologically from 1574 to 2010 comprising an international Ivan Fedorov bibliography. The work includes an index of personal names and a systematic topical index.—LM

Kholokost na territorii SSSR: Entsiklopediia. Ed. I. A. Al�tman. Moscow: Izdatel�stvo “Rossiiskaia Politicheskaia Entsiklopediia” (ROSSPEN), 2009. 1,143 pp.

This is the fi rst reference work to deal with the Holocaust in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Author-

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ity, has published several encyclopedic works on the Holocaust, one of which focused on the populated areas of the occupied regions of the Soviet Union. But these works were produced when some of the Russian archival sources were still unavailable to researchers. This new encyclopedia has drawn from all of those resources to create a more complete picture of the Holocaust in Russia. More than 20 different archives were consulted in the compilation of this volume, with contributions coming from more than 80 scholars. The volume includes some 2,000 articles on those population centers (villages, towns, cities) where there were 100 victims of the Holocaust, or where labor camps or ghettos were maintained. The articles in the volume—geographic, biographical, and thematic—are arranged alphabetically. Many include bibliographies of published and archival refer-ences. The volume is richly illustrated with reproductions of a number of archival docu-ments. Entries that have not appeared in past publications include antisemitism in the USSR, antisemitic propaganda, and teaching on the Holocaust (this last topic covers only the post-Soviet period).—HS

Knigi kirillovskoi pechati: Katalog. By E. L. Nemirovskii. Knizhnye pamiatniki Rossiiskoi gosu-darstvennoi biblioteki. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2009. 2 vols. Vol. 1, 1491–1550. 269 pp. Vol. 2, 1552–1600. 318 pp.

All of the early Cyrillic printed books (from the fi fteenth and sixteenth centuries) in the Russian State Library are described meticulously in these two volumes. The second volume was jointly authored by E. A. Emel�ianova. The fi rst volume includes a 55-page history of the collection and describes 144 copies and fragments of the 48 titles held, while the sec-ond volume includes 432 copies and fragments of an additional 101 titles. The detailed descriptions of each copy include extensive notes on condition and provenance and rel-evant bibliographic references to other published catalogs and secondary literature. Each volume includes a section of color facsimile plates of selected pages. Both volumes have a list of books formerly held in the library’s predecessor institutions but now missing from the collection. Also included are lists of the early Cyrillic printed books not held by the Russian State Library with references to their locations. Each volume includes indexes of personal names and titles, and the fi rst volume has a bibliography of additional sources that describe parts of the library’s collection of early printing.—LM

Kratkaia chuvashskaia regional�naia entsiklopediia. Ed. D. V. Kuz�min. Ul�ianovsk: Chuvash-skoe knizhnoe izdatel�stvo, 2009. Vol. 1, A–L. 296 pp.

The lion’s share of this encyclopedia consists of brief unsigned biographies of Chuvash personalities accompanied by black-and-white photographs. A few topical articles on sub-jects like Zoroastrianism, individual towns and villages, and museums are also present, but bibliographic notes are lacking.—LM

Kto est� kto v istorii SSSR: 1953–1991. Comp. K. A. Zalesskii. Moscow: Veche, 2010. 716 pp.

This biographical dictionary of the post-Stalin Soviet Union focuses mainly on promi-nent government, military, and political personalities, including dissidents and human rights activists. The typical who’s who entries include much detail about the families of the subjects. Numerous small black-and-white photographs illustrate the articles. The book’s reference value is greatly enhanced by the comprehensive lists of offi ceholders, includ-ing government, party, court, KGB, armed forces, union republic, and religious offi cials together with their titles and dates of service.—LM

Russkaia literatura kontsa XIX–nachala XX veka: Bibliografi cheskii ukazatel�. Chief ed. E. V. Glukhova. Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2010– . Vol. 1, A–M. 950 pp.

This major selective literary bibliography is distinguished from many of its predecessors by the outstanding coverage of Russian émigré publications and non-Russian scholarship

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generally. Formerly several of the writers included could not be given proper coverage for ideological reasons or because the relevant literature was not available to Russian bibliog-raphers. Popular literature and dissertation abstracts are among the categories excluded from this unannotated work. Because the bibliography is selective and was compiled by scholars informed by contemporary standards of literary scholarship, it can serve as an excellent starting point for serious students of this important period of Russian literature. Indexes will appear in volume 2.—LM

Russkie monastyri i khramy: Istoricheskaia entsiklopediia. Chief ed. O. A. Platonov. Issledovaniia russkoi tsivilizatsii. Moscow: Institut russkoi tsivilizatsii, 2010. 680 pp.

Nearly all of the articles in this historical encyclopedia are devoted to individual Russian Orthodox monasteries and churches. The articles are unsigned, and most include a histor-ical or contemporary photograph. A 20-page bibliography rounds out this volume.—LM

Russkii konservatizm serediny XVIII–nachala XX veka: Entsiklopediia. Chief ed. V. V. She-lokhaev. Moscow: Izdatel�stvo “Rossiiskaia Politicheskaia Entsiklopediia” (ROSSPEN), 2010. 637 pp.

This solid reference work is typical of the publisher’s scholarly publishing output. The major historical articles on Russian conservatives and conservatism are signed by the scholar-contributors and include one or two basic archival references, brief bibliogra-phies, and black-and-white illustrations. Three authors collaborated on the entry for the Black Hundreds leader Aleksandr Ivanovich Dubrovin. The 5-page article on minister of education Sergei Sergeevich Uvarov is nearly as long as the Dubrovin article, while the entry for the reactionary literary critic Aleksandr Semenovich Shishkov is four col-umns. Among the articles about conservative journals and newspapers is a fi ve- column piece about the infl uential Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia. The gen-eral bibliography (20 pages) is highly selective and has only about thirty non-Russian items.—LM

Ukazatel� katalogov voennykh bibliotek russkoi armii: Vtoraia polovina XIX–nachalo XX veka. Comp. A. M. Panchenko. Novosibirsk: Gos. publichnaia nauchno-tekhn. biblioteka SO RAN, 2010. 216 pp.

This bibliographic description of 260 book catalogs of tsarist army libraries should inter-est both library and military historians. Entries, arranged according to military hierarchy, provide a complete listing of tables of contents. The central section of the book includes reproductions of the title pages or fi rst pages of all 260 catalogs. The compiler personally examined 234 of the catalogs during a seven-year period and notes that the complete con-tents of the catalogs are available in electronic PDF format. The index of personal names includes library heads and military librarians. The catalogs are also indexed by title, place of publication, printing house, and army unit name.—LM

Serbia

Ko je ko u Nedicevoj Srbiji 1941–1944: Leksikon licnosti. Slika jedne zbranjene epohe. By Samo C. Cirkovic. Belgrade: IPS Media, 2009. ix, 564 pp.

Prominent personalities in Serbia during the period of German occupation and the pup-pet regime of the Serbian president Milan Nedic are the subject of this who’s who. The expectedly long articles on Nedic himself, Josip Broz-Tito, and Chetnik general Draž a Mi-hailovich are found among biographies of Nazi SS offi cers and other German offi cials and Serbs of various political persuasions. This inclusive work also treats opera singers, writers,

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librarians, professors, actors, scientists, and others and succeeds in creating an interesting portrait of this troubled time in Serbia’s history. Some black-and-white photographs are included.—LM

Srpska enciklopedija. Chief eds. Cedomir Popov and Dragan Stanic. Novi Sad: Matica Srpska; Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, Zavod za Udž benike, 2010. Vol. 1, A–Beobanka. 707 pp.

This monumental encyclopedia focuses on Serbian history and culture. In this fi rst vol-ume are long articles on Albanian-Serbian and Austro-Serbian relations, for example, and 25 pages devoted to the Balkan Peninsula. The biographical articles include, in addition to native Serbs, many foreigners with connections to Serbia. Agricultural and industrial economics and numerous scientifi c and technical subjects are also treated in a Serbian context. A generous selection of maps and colored illustrations adds to the volume’s use-fulness. Some photos of individuals are also included.—LM

Ukraine

Rukh oporu v Ukraini 1960 –1990: Entsyklopedychnyi dovidnyk. Chief ed. Osyp Zinkevych. Kiev: “Smoloskyp,” 2010. 802 pp.

The idea for this encyclopedia of the Ukrainian resistance movement originated in 1982. The bulk of the work (pp. 43 –741) contains standard encyclopedia articles on personali-ties, organizations and institutions, publications, and events associated with dissent and human rights in Ukraine. Many of the biographical articles include black-and-white pho-tographs, and some of the articles on major fi gures include extensive bibliographies (e.g., the 4-page bibliography on the dissident poet Vasyl Stus). The introduction also provides a substantial bibliography. Additional features include lists of dissident periodicals and publishers, personal name and subject indexes, and an index of photographs. Some of the articles on demonstrations (in Montreal, New York City, Washington, Philadelphia, Copenhagen, and other cities) include color photographs.—LM

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