The Committee on College and Pre-College Russian was established by the
American Association of Teachers of East European languages and is sponsored
by AATSEEL, AAASS and ACTR. The Committee is chaired by professor John Schillinger
of American University who has made the following database available
1. Russian Language Texts
2. Area Studies Texts
3. Bibliographical Sources
4. Print Suppliers
5. Audiovisual Suppliers
If you have any comments or updates contact me at E-Mail: tom.beyer@middlebury.edu
TITLE: AL-M Russian
AUTHOR: Liapunov, Marina
PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, n.d.
SPECIAL SOURCE: 3800 Lakeville Highway, Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 7634101
COMMENTS: Used at the precollege level, particularly when state text adoption
lists offer no alternatives. Written toward the end of the audiolingual
era. Has authentic contemporary Russian, a good mix of dialogues, grammar
exercises and reading select ions. Weak in organization and cultural authenticity,
but has good grammar explanations and is easily adaptable to communicationoriented
methodology.
TITLE:Anglo-russkij slovar s illustratsijami
AUTHOR:Z. Vlasova
PUBLISHER: Moscow: "Sovetskaja entsiklopedija", 1964
TITLE:Art of the October Revolution
AUTHOR: Mikhail Guerman
PUBLISHER: Aurora Press, Harry Abrams
COMMENTS: levels 1-4, college
TITLE:Beginner's Russian Reader
AUTHOR: Pargment
PUBLISHER: National Textbook Co.
COMMENTS: Excellent. Has questions, exercises and vocabulary. Info
is pertinent & usable. Used materials for years, quite useful.
TITLE: Beginning Russian, 2 VOLUMES
AUTHOR: Leed, Nakhimovsky
PUBLISHER: Slavica Publishers, Inc.
COST: Vol 1: $15.95, Vol 2: $16.95, Teacher's Manual: $2.95
SPECIAL SOURCE: Slavica (see "Suppliers")
COMMENTS: Two volumes, ten lessons each. Four reading lessons in second
volume. Cornell University has produced a complete set of computer exercises
to go with this text. Their programs are for the IBM PC, XT, or AT.
TITLE: Continuing With Russian
AUTHOR: Charles E. Townsend
PUBLISHER: Slavica
COST: (in 1989) $17.00
COMMENTS: In use at University of New Hampshire. An excellent follow-up
to single-stem based elementary and intermediate textbooks. Roots designated
in vocabulary entries. Clear and useful grammatical notes and a good sampling
of translations from Eng lish to Russian and vice versa. Each chapter introduced
by a reading which incorporates the following grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.
Very effective text for breaching the gap between simple and complex sentence
structure skills' developmenmt. An e xcellent review book for preparing
for standardized exams.
TITLE:Conversational Russian. An Intermediate Course
AUTHOR:H. Yakobson
PUBLISHER:D.C. Heath
TITLE: Dialogue One: Pervyj Dialog
PUBLISHER: Collets International Booksellers
SPECIAL SOURCE: Collets (see "Suppliers")
COMMENTS: Produced under the auspices of the British Council and the Soviet
Ministry of Secondary Education designed for use in secondary schools. Excellent
illustrations, taped supplement, teaching manual.
TITLE: Express Track to Russian
AUTHOR: T. Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's 1995
COMMENTS: A Teach Yourself Program, color-illustrated textbook, 4 cassettes,
workbook, answer booklet, Learner's handbook. An adaptation and translation
of the German program MOCT.
TITLE: 501 Russian Verbs
AUTHOR: T. Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's 1992
COMMENTS: Over 1200 verbs conjugated in all the tenses
TITLE: Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 1 (2nd revised edition)
AUTHOR: Richard Robin, Joanne Robin, Kathryn Henry
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, 1997
COMMENTS: Hard cover textbook in two volumes and soft cover lab manual/workbook
in two volumes,teacher's manual with audio-cassette program. CD-ROM
for Volume 1 of 2nd Revised Edition by Mark Kaiser, also available through
Prentice Hall.
TITLE: Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 2 (2nd revised edition)
AUTHOR: Kathryn Henry, Joanne Robin, Richard Robin
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, 1997
TITLE: GORIZONT I
PUBLISHER: Russkij jazyk
COST: $3.50 for text, exercise book, dictionary.
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin
COMMENTS: George Morris (St. Louis Univ High School) has created writing
exercises for this text . A lso available are a teacher's manual (in Russian)
and an unpaused tape. Cost of new set unknown. All texts except dictionary
are entirely in Russian. Good results reported. No particular linguistic
order, about one thousand vocabulary items, culturally sound.
TITLE: Grammatika v kontekste: Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts
AUTHOR:Benjamin Rifkin.
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
COMMENTS: Soft cover textbook (398 pp., xxxi), soft cover workbook/laboratory
manual (273 pp., xiv), instructor's manual (136 pp.) with audio-cassette
program. Request poetry tape separately.
TITLE: Jokes, Anecdotes, and Short Stories
AUTHOR: G. Anpilogova
PUBLISHER: Moscow: Progress Publishers
TITLE: Learning Russian, 4 Volumes
AUTHOR: Potapova
PUBLISHER: Progress/Moscow
COST: All four volumes, $37.50, or $9.50 each
SPECIAL SOURCE: Saphrograph
TITLE: Learn Russian The Fast and Fun Way
AUTHOR: T. Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's 1993
COMMENTS: An activity kit with maps, puzzles, vocabulary cards and a pull
out dictionary of useful words and phrases
TITLE: Let's Talk about Life
AUTHOR: E. Tall and V. Vlasikova
PUBLISHER: Wiley & Sons, 1996
COMMENTS: Intended for conversation courses at the intermediate level and
beyond, with teacher's manual and tape
TITLE: Making Progress in Russian: A Second Year Course.
AUTHOR: P. Davis, D. Oprendek, A. Bronstein, A. Fleszer.
PUBLISHER: Wiley & Sons, 1997
COMMENTS: Recently revised with additional materials for 3rd or 4th semester
of college.
TITLE: Mir russkix.
AUTHOR: Dabars, Zita and Morris, George and Stramnova,Tatiana
PUBLISHER: Kendall/Hunbt-ACTR, 1997
COMMENTS: Soft cover textbook (484 pp.) and exercise book (186 pp.)
[Exercise book by Zita D. Dabars, Natalia M. Lutskaya, George W. Morris],
and audiotapes and guide. Linked to video, Russkie temy and Resource Guide
for Russkie temy .
TITLE: Modern Russian Prose Comp. Book I
AUTHOR: Henry
PUBLISHER: U. of London Press
COMMENTS: 4th sem; 2nd year college
TITLE: Modern Russian Reader
PUBLISHER: National Textbook Co.
COST: $10.95
COMMENTS: Has been used at high school levels 2-4
TITLE: Nachalo: When in Russia
AUTHOR: Sophia Lubensky, Donald Jarvis, and Gerard L. Ervin.
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
COMMENTS: Hard cover student and annotated teacher's edition in two volumes
(I: 318 pp., xxxiv; II: 371 pp., xxxv), soft cover workbook and laboratory
manual (with Tatiana Smorodinskaya) in two volumes (I: 219 pp., x; II: 232
pp., viii), video program (1 tape, approximately 1 hour in length), soft
cover video guide (with Janelle Jarvis, 118 pp., x), audio-program, soft
cover instructor's manual with testing program and transparencies (337 pp.
and transparency masters, by Gerard L. Ervin and Donald Jarvis with Thomas
Reese and Ruth Warner), and computer assisted learning program (CD-ROM).
TITLE: New Voices: Contemporary Soviet Short Stories
EDITORS: Harper, Koulaeff, Gisetti
PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
COMMENTS: Annotated and glossed anthology (Kazakov, Aksyonov, Nekrasov)
designed for second or third year college level students. Text of each story
divided into sections, each section introduced by preparatory sentences.
Content questions and glossary in back of book. Sentence structure easily
accessible to students. Stories lend themselves to developing conversation
and/or to close textual analysis. A good sample of colloquial language and
universal themes.
TITLE: PASSPORT TO MOSCOW
AUTHOR: O'Toole and Culhane
PUBLISHER: Oxford, 1982
COST: $9.95
TITLE:Practical Russian
AUTHOR:G. Bogatova
PUBLISHER:Progress Publishers, n.d., Moscow
COMMENTS:Conversation Manual
TITLE: Pronounce it Perfectly in Russian
AUTHOR: T. Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's 1994
COMMENTS: Two ninety minute cassettes to practice pronunciation and intonation
with useful words and sentences.
TITLE: READING REAL RUSSIAN
AUTHOR: Thompson, Irene and Urevich, Emily
COMMENTS: Good source of Russian culture for a language class; can be used
for beginning level.
TITLE: Russian
AUTHOR: Ben Clark
PUBLISHER: Harper & Row
IN USE AT: Texas, St. Louis, MO
COMMENTS: Solid traditional approach. User friendly.
TITLE: Russian Alive! An Introduction to Russian
AUTHOR: Samuel Cioran
PUBLISHER: Ardis, 1992.
COMMENTS: To obtain the video film, audio cassettes and computer software
(both IBM PC and Macintosh versions), please contact the author directly
at the following address for availability and pricing: Samuel Cioran, Humanities
Computing Centre, Togo Sa lmon Hall, Rm 312, McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M2. Voice: (416) 525-9140 x7012; fax: (416) 577-6930
TITLE: RUSSIAN AS WE SPEAK IT
AUTHOR: Khavronina
PUBLISHER: Imported Publications (Russian Lang Publications)
COST: $6.95
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin
TITLE: Russian at a Glance
AUTHOR: Thomas Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's, 1995
COMMENTS: Handy pocket phrasebook and dictionary oraganized thematically
TITLE: Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary
AUTHOR: Romanov
PUBLISHER: Washington Square Press
COST: $5.95
COMMENTS: Handy pocket dictionary, useful notation system in
appendix provides key to conjugation/declension patterns of Russian entries
TITLE: Russian Faces and Voices
AUTHOR: Zita D. Dabars, George W. Morris, Ellina Yu. Sosenko, Lilia L. Vokhmina
PUBLISHER: Kendall/Hunt-ACTR, 1996 (textbook), 1997 (video)
COMMENTS: Hardcover textbook (428 pp.), softcover exercise book (149 pp.),
audiotapes, instructor's manual. Linked to video In Search of Orlovsky
and Resource Guide for "In Search of Orlovsky".
TITLE: Russian Face to Face I
AUTHOR: G. Morris, M. Vyatyutney, L. Vokhmina
PUBLISHER: National Textbook Co., 1993.
COMMENTS: Hard cover student and annotated teacher's edition (496 pp., xv,
$34.60), soft cover workbook (161 pp., $9.25), with instructor's manual,
audio-cassette program and testing program.
TITLE: Russian Face to Face: Level 2
AUTHOR: Zita Dabars,George Morris, and Nadezhda Smirnova.
PUBLISHER: National Textbook Company, 1995.
COMMENTS: Basic text in Russian especially for high school students. Hard
cover student edition and annotated teacher's edition (521 pp., xxiv), soft
cover workbook, with audio-cassette program.
TITLE: RUSSIAN FOR EVERYBODY (American version)
AUTHOR: Kostomarov, V. and Baker, Robert L., et. al.
PUBLISHER: Russkij Jazyk (Russian language)
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin (See "Print Media" listings)
COMMENTS: Basic text in Russian, comes with supplementary booklets for grammar,
reading, dictionary, exercises. Supplementary materials available (see below)
from R. Baker, also from Ohio State (additional grammar explanation s, exercises).
Used successfully at college and high school levels. Basic set comes with
teacher's manual, two cassettes, small but useful vocabulary drawings which
can be turned into transparencies.
TITLE: RUSSIAN FOR EVERYBODY (Amer version) SUPPLEMENTARY
MATERIALS
AUTHOR: Stepanova, E. and Baker, Robert L.
PUBLISHER: Russian Language Publishers, 1984
SPECIAL SOURCE: Babel Productions, Box 746, Middlebury, VT 05753
COMMENTS: Extensive supplementary materials, not suitable for use with the
allpurpose edition of Russkij jazyk dlja vsex. 34 tapes (recorded 1986):
$300, cartoon supplement; $2.50/set, song supplement: $2.50/set; both sets
combined in one binder: $3. 50; workbook: $10.00; transparencies: $100/set;
Russian review drills: $15.00; "Mastering Russian Pronunciation and
the Writing System": $15.00; 6 cassettes $55.00.
TITLE: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE & PEOPLE
AUTHOR: Culhane, BBC
PUBLISHER: EMC
COST: $12.95
SPECIAL SOURCE: EMC Corp; Films Inc.
COMMENTS: Text accompanies set of video tapes available for
purchase or rental. Used at college level as supplementary material for
any text.
TITLE: Russian Now!
AUTHOR: Thomas Beyer
PUBLISHER: Barron's 1996
COMMENTS: A course for beginner's used at the high school and college level.
Textbook all in Russian, separate Grammar Guide, Workbook, Instructor's
Manual, audio-cassettes. Adapted for English speakers from the German series
OKHO.
TITLE: Russian Now!
PUBLISHER: Transparent Language, 1997.
COMMENTS: A CD- ROM self- contained program wth add-on modules for Windows
and Macintosh operating systems.
TITLE: Russian Pronunciation
AUTHOR: John Glad
PUBLISHER: University of Maryland
COST: $49
COMMENTS: 5 tapes and manual to train undergraduate students. all
words are provided with the nearest English equivalent for vocabulary reinforcement.
TITLE: RUSSIAN READING AND CONVERSATION
AUTHOR: N. Maltzoff
PUBLISHER: Pitman, New York, 1959
COMMENTS: Conversation Manual
TITLE: RUSSIAN: STAGE I-Live from Moscow
AUTHOR: Dan E. Davidson, Kira S. Gor, Maria D. Lekic.
PUBLISHER: KENDALL/HUNT -ACTR, 1997.
COMMENTS: Primarily used at college level. Softcover textbook in two volumes
(Vol. 1 textbook 501 pp., Vol. 1 workbook 270 pp.; Vol. 2 textbook 436 pp.,
Vol. 2 workbook 269 pp.). Audiotapes, instructor's manual. 2-tape
videotape program (approx. 2:30 min.) and CD-ROM.
TITLE: RUSSIAN: STAGE II
AUTHOR:Cynthia Martin and Inga Sokolova.
PUBLISHER: KENDALL/HUNT -ACTR, 1993.
COMMENTS: Soft cover textbook (422 pp. xxi), soft cover workbook (148 pp.,
x), teacher's manual, with audio-cassette program. Also: answer
key and supplementary grammatical explanations by Nathan Longan; communicative
grammar supplement by Richard Brecht and Cynthia Martin. (Students
using this book no longer need to have the reference book from Russian Stage
1.) As of 1997, video available through Kendall Hunt.
TITLE: RUSSIAN: STAGE III, Focus on Speaking
AUTHOR:Maria Lekic, Elena Efremova, Olga Rassudova
PUBLISHER: KENDALL/HUNT, 1997.
COMMENTS: Soft cover textbook (359 pp. ), with audio-cassette program.
TITLE: RUSSIAN REFERENCE GRAMMAR
AUTHOR:John L. Watzke, James W. Sweigert, Jr.
PUBLISHER: KENDALL/HUNT, 1997.
COMMENTS: References the grammar found in the 'Faces' series texts (1-2,
Faces and Voices, Mir russkikh).
TITLE:RUSSKIJ JAZYK V KARTINAKH
AUTHOR: I. Baranikov
PUBLISHER: "Prosveshchenie", Moscow, 1973
COMMENTS: Conversation Manual
TITLE: S mesta v kar'er: Leaping into Russian
AUTHOR: E. Andrews, I. Dolgova, C. Flath, E. Maksimova and J. Van Tuyl
PUBLISHER: Focus, 1995
COMMENTS: An introductory course with strong grammatical foundation.
TITLE: SPUTNIK
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin
COMMENTS: Russianproduced, reminiscent of RUSSIAN FOR
EVERYBODY. Aimed
at precollege level.
TITLE: START: An Introduction to the Sound and Writing Systems
of Russian
AUTHOR: Benjamin Rifkin
PUBLISHER: Focus, 1998
COMMENTS: CD ROM for Macintosh only
TITLE: TEMP I
AUTHOR: Stepanova, Chebotarev
PUBLISHER: Russkij jazyk
COST: About $3.50
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin
COMMENTS: Paperback. Has conversation and culture content. Colorful, but
a bit redundant in approach. Good dialogues; one tape available (unpaused).
Treatment of cultural materialA+. THE GOLDEN RING, PALEX, and XOXLOMSKAJA
decoration, etc.
TITLE: Troika: A Communicative Approach to Russian Language, Life,
and Culture
AUTHOR: Marita Nummikoski.
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
COMMENTS: Hard cover student edition ($63.20) and teacher's annotated edition
( 613 pp., xxii), soft cover workbook (403 pp., i, $19.10), with audio-cassette
program, test bank and transparencies. New York:
TITLE: Verbs of Motion in Russian
AUTHOR: L. Muravyova
PUBLISHER: Moscow: Progress Publishers, n.d.
TITLE: V puti: Russian Grammar in Context
AUTHOR: Olga Kagan and Frank Miller.
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, 1996.
COMMENTS: Soft cover textbook (399 pp., vii), lab manual/workbook (267 pp.),
teacher's manual, with audio-cassette program.
TITLE: We Learn to Listen, Understand and Speak Russian
PUBLISHER: Vasilenko & Lamm
SPECIAL SOURCE: Victor Kamkin
COMMENTS: Used as supplement at various levels
TITLE: We Read Russian
AUTHOR: Astakhova, et. al., n.d.
PUBLISHER: Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House
TITLE: Welcome to Divnograd, An Illustrated Workbook for Students
of Russian
AUTHOR: Samuel Cioran & Gennadi Kalinin
PUBLISHER: Ardis
TITLE: Art of the October Revolution
AUTHOR: Mikhail Guerman
PUBLISHER: Aurora Press (Russian edition) 1979
COST: $90.00
COMMENTS: Also English edition available, published by Harry N. Abrams.
Excellent source of slides for culture and language courses. Good for alphabet
practice.
TITLE:The Collective Legacy: A Teacher's Guide to Eastern Europe
AUTHOR:Adrian Chan and the Stanford Program on International
and Cross-Cultural Education, for the American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies
PUBLISHER:The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies Copyright 1992, the Leland Stanford Junior University Board of Trustees
COMMENTS:Teacher's resource and activity guide to past and present issues
in Central and Eastern Europe, Grades 9-12 (High School)
TITLE: Contact (Kontakt): Russian Language Video Magazine
PUBLISHER: SUNY Research Foundation, New York Network,
Ostankino
ADDRESS: New York Network, PO Box 7012, Albany, NY 12225
PHONE: Rebecca Stanley (518) 443-5333 *FAX* (518) 426-4198
COST: $44.95, six or more issues $39.95 each
COMMENTS: 30 minute programs, each with a particular theme (i.e. schools,
hobbies, economy, church,women, TV, theater), complete with guidebook, transcript,
key word list, and discussion questions.
TITLE: The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government
AUTHOR: Roberta Thompson Manning
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
COST: $47.50
COMMENT: 1983 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
TITLE: Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931
AUTHOR: Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed.
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press
COST: $25
TITLE: Current Digest of the Former Soviet Press
PUBLISHER: 1314 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OH 43212
COMMENTS: Weekly translations of articles from the Press of the former Soviet
Union. Compendiums suitable for classroom use are published from time to
time.
TITLE:Eastern Europe: A Resource Guide for Teachers
AUTHOR:Frucht, Richard, and Elizabeth Talbot, compilers
PUBLISHER:American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, 1992
COMMENTS:Bibliography and Audio-visual list on Eastern Europe
TITLE: From Russia to USSR: A Narrative and Documentary History
AUTHOR: Vaillant, Janet G. and Richards, John
PUBLISHER: Independent School Press, Wellesby, MA, 1985, 381 pp.
COST: $11.95
SPECIAL SOURCE: Langman, 95 Church St., White Plains, NY 10601 COMMENTS:
Illustrations, maps index, chronology, glossary. A Russian history survey
text. ISBN 0883341751
TITLE: Gorbachev Era, The
AUTHOR: Dallin, Alexander
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
COST: $9.95 (paperback)
TITLE: Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
AUTHOR: Massey, Suzanne
PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster
COST: $13.95
COMMENTS: Good color reproductions. A cultural history of Russia.
Easy reading.
TITLE: The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet
Republics
AUTHOR: Stephen K. Batalden and Sandra L. Batalden
PUBLISHER: ORYX Press (4041 N. Central Ave., Suite 700, Phoenix, AZ
85012-3397)
PHONE: 800-279-6799 *FAX* 800-279-4663 (outside of USA 602-
265-2651 *FAX* (602-265-6250)
COST: $34.95
COMMENTS: historical, geographical, statistical, portraits of these emerging
states published September 1993, 224 pages
TITLE: One Nation Becomes Many: The ACCESS guide to the Former
Soviet Union
PUBLISHER: ACCESS, 1730 M Street, NW, Suite 605, Washington, DC
20036
PHONE: (202) 785-6630 or 1-800-888-6033 *FAX* (202) 223-2737
COST: Normal rate: $17.95; ACCESS Associates rate: $14.95
COMMENTS: Provides a frame of reference, background, and information on
where to look next during the transition of the Soviet Union. Discusses
new nations, political and economic reforms, status of nuclear weapons,
weapons proliferation in the Third World, ethnic conflicts, challenges for
US foreign policy.
TITLE: Politics and Technology in the Soviet Union
AUTHOR: Bruce Parrott
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
COST: $45
TITLE: Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism and the Russian
Jews,
1862-1917
AUTHOR: Jonathan Frankel
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
COST: $64.50 for Cloth;$18.95 for paper
COMMENT: The Kenneth B. Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award for
1982
TITLE: The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political
Culture
AUTHOR: Petro, Nicolai N.
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, 1995
TITLE: Russia
AUTHOR: Acton, Edward
PUBLISHER: Longman, 1986
COST: $29.95
COMMENTS: A good overview of Russian/Soviet history into the Gorbachev era.
Lends itself well to Soviet Union survey course use. Wellsupplied with pictures,
maps, charts. Twelve units cover the whole of Russian history on a periodbyperiod
basis. Acto n does jump around chronologically within each period to make
thematic points, which can confuse the student reader initially. The level,
however, is right for introductory courses.
TITLE:Russia
PUBLISHER:Time-Life Books
COMMENTS:excellent photographs, levels 1-4, college
TITLE: Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
AUTHOR: Shipler, David K. (former NYT correspondent)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, 1984, 404 pp.
COST: $7.95
COMMENTS: Excellent introduction to contemporary Russian society. More recent
than Hedrick Smith's book. Personally anecdotal, but carefully categorized.
Chapters provide insights into the collective and the individual, teaching
the system, social str atification, religion, Stalin, and views of the West,
to name a few. Index at back of book.
TITLE: Russian Foreign Policy: From Empire to Nation-State
AUTHOR: Petro, Nicolai N. and Rubinstein, Alvin Z.
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins, 1996
COMMENTS: due out in September 1996
TITLE: Russian Life (formerly Soviet Life)
PUBLISHER: Embassy of the Russian Federation. Subscriptions: 1706
18th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009. (202) 232-6020.
COST: $19.75/yr (6 issues). Sample copy $5.00
COMMENTS: Official English language Russian publication for distribution
in the U.S. Distributed in the U.S. as part of a reciprocal agreement through
which the U.S. publication AMERIKA is distributed in Russia.
TITLE: Russian News Abstracts: 1992
PUBLISHER: Russian Information Services, Inc.
ADDRESS: City Center, 89 Main St, Box 2, Montpelier, VT 05602
PHONE: (802) 223-4955 *FAX* (802) 223-6105
COST: academic rate: $38.40 (reg price $48.00) (plus $3.50 shipping
for 1st book, $1 each additional copy)
COMMENTS: Abstracts of over 2000 key articles with thorough index from Russian
and CIS press. Seven subheadings: Agriculture, Business, Economy, Finance,
Politics, Resources, Society.
TITLE: Russia's Future: The Communist Education of Soviet Youth
AUTHOR: Weaver, Kitty, 1981
PUBLISHER: Praeger
COST: $35.00
COMMENTS: An excellent overview of the education of youth in the
former Soviet Union, with insights into schools, youth groups, and the home.
TITLE: Russians, The
AUTHOR: Smith, Hedrick (former NYT correspondent)
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books, 1977. Revised 1984
COST: $4.95
COMMENTS: Extremely readable, well outlined in categories, useful index
at back of book. A competent introduction to Soviet society. On a background
of personal experiences, Smith treats the people, the system, and the issues
in contemporary Russian society in a way that makes the information 85%of
personal experiences, Smith treats the people, the system, and the issues
in contemporary Russian society in a way that makes the information accessible
and appealing to a student audience.
TITLE: Russian's World, Life,
and Language, The, Second Edition,
AUTHOR: Gerhart, Genevra
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace/Holt, 1995
ISBN 0-15-501053-0
COMMENTS: Full of pictures and illustrations; text in English but much material
presented in Russian. Excellent for civilization and culture enrichment
for students who have had Russian.It now has 419 pages, indexes in English
and Russian, six new chapters and revised old ones.
TITLE: Russian's World, Life, and Language, The
AUTHOR: Gerhart, Genevra
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974
COST: $13.95
COMMENTS: Full of pictures and illustrations; text in English but much material
presented in Russian. Excellent for civilization and culture enrichment
for students who have had Russian.
TITLE: Soviet Life (see Russian Life)
TITLE: Soviet Union Today, The
AUTHOR: Cracraft, James, editor
PUBLISHER: Univ of Chicago Press, 1983. 2nd edition, 1988.
COST: $12.50
IN USE AT: University High in Urbana, IL, in Russian III and IV
COMMENTS: Still a useful text. Short articles by 30 selected sovietologists,
covers aspects of history, politics, the armed forces, the physical context,
the economy, science and technology, culture, and society. Contributors
include Irwin Weil, Harley B alzer, James Millar, Ellen Mickiewicz, Alexander
Dallin, and Stephen Cohen. Each article approximately 10 pp. Entries are
not a summary overview of an entire category, but serve as commentary on
selected points.
TITLE: The Soviet Union and the Third World: An Economic Bind
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
PUBLISHER: Praeger Publishers
COST: $21.95
TITLE: USSR: The Politics of Oligarchy, The
AUTHOR: Hammer, Darrell P.
PUBLISHER: Westview Press, 2nd edition, 1986
COMMENTS: An excellent basic political science overview for an area or specific
course. Chapter titles include: Vision and Reality in Soviet Politics, Twentieth
Century Russia, The Collective Society, Soviet Political Ideology and Doctrine,
The Commun ist Party, The AllUnion Government, Government and Admin istration
in the Provinces, From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, Law Enforcement and Human
Rights, The Industrial and Military Bureaucracies, Public Policy and the
Welfare State, and Bureaucratic Pluralism .
TITLE: USSR TODAY, THE: FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS, 3rd Edition
AUTHOR: Hecht, Leo
PUBLISHER: "Scholasticus" Publ, P.O. Box 2727, Springfield, VA
22152
COST: $12.95, free desk copy w/firm orders of ten or more
SPECIAL SOURCE: "Scholasticus"
COMMENTS: An invaluable research aid for both faculty and students, the
text contains the latest info on the most important facets of Soviet government
and Party, economics, geography and ethnography, culture and the arts, education,
philosophy, and ma ny other topics. ENDgovernment and Party, economics,
geography and ethnography, culture and the arts, education, philosophy,
and many other topics.
SOURCE: ASEEPL
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Leonid Khotin
PUBLISHER: ASEEPL, 1400 Shattuck Ave, Suite 7, #10, Berkeley, CA
94705
COST: Annual subscription: private, $25; institutional, $40
YEAR PUBLISHED: Established in 1981, published quarterly
COMMENTS: A guide to more than 100 emigre periodicals, and a unique source
of information about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Table of Contents:
Arts, Economics, Government, Law and Politics, History, International Relations,
Language and Lingui stics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Theory, and
Ideology, Religion, Science, Sociology.
SOURCE: Center for Russian and East European Studies
AUTHOR: Val D. Rust/Rosalinda Latiner
ADDRESS: Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
COMMENTS: Scholars and Teachers Guide to Russian and Eastern
European Studies in the Greater Los Angeles Area
SOURCE: Checklist Bibliography of Russian Studies Centers for
Secondary Schools
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Van Straalen, Johannes
PUBLISHER: Choate Rosemary Hall School (offprint)
COST: No charge
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
COMMENTS: 116 pages. Developed as source list for regional (Connecticut)
schools with access to Choate Rosemary Hall's Andrew Mellon Library.
SOURCE: East View Publications
ADDRESS: 3020 Harbor Lnae North, Minneapolis, MN 55447 USA
PHONE: (612) 550-0961 *FAX* (612) 559-2931 TOLL-FREE (in USA)
1-800-477-1005
E-MAIL: eastview (at) mr.net
COMMENTS: Knizhnoe obozrenie (The Book Review)
SOURCE: Educational Film Locator of the Consortium of University Film
Centers and the R. R. Bowker Co. Third Edition.
COST: $150
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
COMMENTS: Need more info on source. Index of films relating to the Soviet
Union. Each film listed is described briefly and the film libraries holding
the film are indicated. Normally revised every four years.
SOURCE: Eisenhower World Affairs Institute
PUBLISHER: EWAI, 918 16th Street NW, #401, Washington, DC
20006
COMMENTS: Has available Thirty Years of USSoviet Exchange: A
Project Overview.
SOURCE: Feature Films, 8th Edition
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Linbacker, James L.
PUBLISHER: R.R. Bowker Co.
COST: $75.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
COMMENTS: A dictionary on 16mm and videotape films. Indexed by film title,
director, and language.
SOURCE: Film and Video Finder, 3 volumes
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Johnstone, J.C.
PUBLISHER: NICEM
COST: $295.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
COMMENTS: 70,000 annotated film and video citations.
SOURCE: Film Yearbook, 1987
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Al Clark
PUBLISHER: ST. Martin's Press
COST: $14.95
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
COMMENTS: Films in alphabetical order. Basic info and short
annotations.
SOURCE: Films of the USSR
AUTHOR/EDITOR: National Council of American/Soviet Friendship
PUBLISHER: 85 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
COMMENTS: New edition of its Films of the USSR catalogue listing 550 Soviet-produced
16mm documentaries not otherwise available in this country.
SOURCE: Friend of International Educaton Russian Bibliography
AUTHOR/EDITOR: FIE, Dorothy B. Goodman, PhD, Director
PUBLISHER: FIE, P.O. Box 4800, Washington, DC 20008
COST: $10 each, all four for $35
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
COMMENTS: Bibliographies of teaching materials for Arabic, Chinese,
Japanese and Russian.
SOURCE: A Guide to Films About the Soviet Union
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Lamberty & Halperin
PUBLISHER: W. Averell Harriman Institute (See "Centers")
COST: $5.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
COMMENTS: Synopses and evaluations of about 50 films and videos.
SOURCE: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Vol I
PUBLISHER: MacMillian Publishers
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
COMMENTS: Films indexed by title in original language. Data on films followed
by short essay and/or list of publications about the film.
SOURCE: International Film Guide
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Cowie, Peter
PUBLISHER: The Tantivy Press
COST: $12.95
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
COMMENTS: Short film reports by country.
SOURCE: Magill's Survey of Cinema: Foreign Language Films
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Magill, Frank N.
PUBLISHER: Salem Press
COST: $7.95
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
COMMENTS: Good articles on selected films from Eastern Europe and the USSR.
AUTHOR/EDITOR: National Council of American/Soviet Friendship
PUBLISHER: 85 E. 4th St, New York, NY 10003
COMMENTS: Has a new edition of its Films of the USSR catalogue listing 550
Sovietproduced 16mm documentaries not otherwise available in this country.
SOURCE: ORYX
PUBLISHER: ORYX Press
ADDRESS: 4041 North Central Ave, Suite #700, Phoenix, AZ 85012-3397
PHONE: 1-800-279-ORYX (6799), outside the US (602) 265-2651
FAX: 1-800-279-4663 outside the US (602) 265-6250
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Russ & E.Europ Institute, Indiana Univ. (812) 3352103
PUBLISHER: Same
COST: None
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1983
COMMENTS: Paperback booklet of AudioVisual materials available from Indiana
University and the Russian and East European Institute. Available from Outreach
Coordinator, REEI, Ballantine Hall 565, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN 47405.
SOURCE: Resource Guide
ADDRESS: Outreach Coordinator, REEI (Russian/East European Institute),Ballantine
Hall 565, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
PHONE: (812) 335-2103
COST: none
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1983
COMMENTS: Paperback booklet of Audio-visual materials available from Indiana
University and the Russian and East-European Institute. Also available:
Guide to University Slavic Centers.
SOURCE: Russia/Soviet Union: Guide to Print Materials for Teachers
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Talbot, Elisabeth and Vaillant, Janet G.
PUBLISHER: Contact IL or Harvard Russian Area Studies Centers
COST: $4.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
COMMENTS: Compendium listing titles, evaluations, sources, and cost of materials
useful for precollege and college Russian area study coursework. Evaluates
history, social science, political science texts, gives background reading
for student projects, reference books, info on Russian and Soviet lit, maps,
atlases, centers, special interest groups, distributors of materials. Evaluations
give appropriate levels for use, such as "Grade 79."
SOURCE: Scholar/Teacher's Guide to Russian/East European Studies
for Greater Los Angeles
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Rust, V. and Latimer,R.
PUBLISHER: Center for Russ & E.European Studies, UCLA
COST: $35.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
COMMENTS: 155 page booklet gives names, addresses, phone numbers for agencies,
institutions, programs. Categories include ethnic groups, collegiate study
programs, precollegiate study of Russia and East Europe, archives, museums,
films.
SOURCE: Short Stories on Film
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Emmeni, Carol A.
PUBLISHER: Libraries Unlimited
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
COMMENTS: Index to authors whose works are on film.
SOURCE: Slavic Language and Area Centers: Guide to Public Education
Services
PUBLISHER: Outreach Coordinator, Russian & E.Europe Institute,
Ballantine
Hall 565, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
COMMENTS: Describes services available through the Centers. An excellent
source of information to supplement the Centers category in this Database.
SOURCE: SOVSET' NEWS, Electronic Newsletter of Soviet Studies
AUTHOR/EDITOR: CSIS (Center for Strategic & International Studies)
COMMENTS: A computer network for Soviet and E. European studies which links
more than 160 leading specialists around the world. It offers computer conferencing,
electronic mail, a data library. For application, write: CSIS, Soviet Studies
Program, SO VSET' Network Manager, 1800 K Street NW, Washington,DC 20006.
SOURCE: SPEED (Slavic Placement for Employment by Electronic
Digest)
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Professor Sanford Couch
PUBLISHER: Foreign Lang Dept, Ariz St Univ, Tempe, AZ 852870202
(602) 9656394, 9656381
COMMENTS: SPEED (Slavic Placement for Employment by Electronic
Digest)
Institutions wishing to advertise available positions may call or write
SPEED. Individual members of AATSEEL and Dobro Slovo seeking employment
may write or call for a list of available positions.
SOURCE: Teacher's Resource Handbook, Russian and East European
Studies
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Rust, Val D. and Artz, Jeff
PUBLISHER: UCLA Center for Russ and E.Eur Studies
COST: $35.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
COMMENTS: An annotated bibliography of curriculum materials for preschool
through community college use. Gives prices and sources, plus list of publishers
and distributors. 84 pages.
SOURCE: UCLA Center for Russian and East European Studies
AUTHOR: Val D. Rust
ADDRESS: University of California, Los Angeles
COMMENTS: Bibliography of curricular materials
SOURCE: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ADDRESS: Russian and East European Center
1208 West California Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
TELEPHONE: (217) 333-1244
COMMENTS: Bibliography of books, magazine articles and magazine
photos.
SOURCE: VAcation Study Abroad
PUBLISHER: Inst of Int'l Educ, 809 United Nations Plaza, NY, NY
10017
COST: Approximately $5.00
YEAR PUBLISHED: Annually since 1950
COMMENTS: An excellent overview of summer study programs in
the USSR,Poland; 56 pages of introduction.
ENDYEAR PUBLISHED: Annually since 1950
SOURCE: U.S. Dept. of State
PUBLISHER: School of Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute
COMMENTS: Readers' Guides to Russia, Serbia, Central Asia, Ukraine,
Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, Hungary, the Baltic States, Slovenia,
Romania, and A Guide to the History, Institutions, and Buzzwords of
the European Community
(UPDATED August 17, 1994)
NAME: AAAS ( Amer Assoc for the Advancement of Science)
ADDRESS: 1333 H. St, NW, Washington, DC 20005
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has published the proceedings from a Congressional seminar
"The START Negotiations in Moscow: Implications for National Security,"
as well as other papers on arms control issues.
NAME: ACCESS
ADDRESS: 1730 M Street, NW, Suite 605, Washington, DC 20036
PHONE: (202) 785-6630 *FAX* (202) 223-2737
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books, guides, issue packets, etc on
international security, peace, and world affairs. "One Nation Becomes
Many: the Access Guide to the Former Soviet Union"
NAME: Ardis
ADDRESS: 2901 Heatherway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
PHONE: (313) 9712367
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Features translations of Soviet and Russian work into
English, Russian lit, course books, dictionaries, readers, lit criticism,
recordings (plays, documentaries, poetry, short stories), contemporary prose,
Dostoevsky.
NAME: Arnold Publishing, LTD.
ADDRESS: PO Box 5686, Springfield, MO 65801
PHONE: 1-800-888-2847 (403) 426-2998 *FAX* (403) 426-4607
TYPE OF MATERIALS: "Russia Then and Now" , textbook of historical,
social, political, and economic background, plus updates and an "occasional"
newsletter. 10%political, and economic background, plus updates and an "occasional"
newsletter.
NAME: ASEEPL
ADDRESS: 1400 Shattuck Ave, Suite 7, #10, Berkeley, CA 94705
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Abstracts of Soviet and East European Emigre
Periodical Literature
NAME: Babel Productions
ADDRESS: Box 746, Middlebury, VT 05753
TYPE OF MATERIALS: print, video, and audio supplementary materials, does
not distribute textbooks
NAME: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
ADDRESS: 250 Wireless Boulevard, Hauppage, NY 11788
PHONE: 1-800-645-3476 Call for catalogue.
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Texts and supplementary materials for students as well
as tourists and business people.
NAME: Cambridge University Press
ADDRESS: 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 1011-4211
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Scholarly books on Soviet and East European
Studies, History, Political Science, Economics, Russian Literature, Arts,
philosophy, plus language dictionaries and reference works.
NAME: Canadian Scholars' Press, Inc.
ADDRESS: 211 Grenadier Rd, Toronto, Canada, M6R 1R9
PHONE: (416) 588-4397
COMMENTS: publishes "A Handbook for Translating from English into
Russian" by Galina Kruberg
NAME: Chalidze Publications
ADDRESS: Khronika Press, Benson, VT 05731
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write for catalog: Research and Educational
Books in Russian 19851986.
NAME: Collets International Booksellers, Denington Estate
ADDRESS: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire NN8 2 QUT UK
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Language and literature textswide variety.
Materials produced by Collets may be ordered through U.S. bookstores.
NAME: Cornell University Press: Slavic Studies
ADDRESS: 124 Roberts Place, PO Box 250, Ithaca, NY 14851-0250
PHONE: (credit card orders) 1-800-666-2211, (customer inquiries)
(607) 277-2211
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Slavic Studies, History and Society, Security
Affairs
NAME: Council on Foreign Relations Press
ADDRESS: 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021
COMMENTS: books on foreign relations, especially on Soviet Union CIS, Eastern
Europe, etc
NAME: The Darwin Press, Inc.
ADDRESS: Box 2202, Princeton, NJ 08543
PHONE: (609) 737-1349
TYPE OF MATERIALS: The Nikonian Chronicle, a complete history of
Russia
NAME: Duke University Press
20%NAME: Duke University Press
ADDRESS: 6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Soviet and East European Studies: politics,
current
affairs, history, economics
NAME: East View Publications
ADDRESS: 3020 Harbor Lane North, Minneapolis, MN 55447 USA
PHONE: (612) 550-0961 *FAX* (612) 559-2931 TOLL-FREE (in USA)
1-800-477-1005
E-MAIL: eastview@eastview.com
COMMENTS: Knizhnoe obozrenie (The Book Review)
NAME: Edward Elgar Publishing Company
ADDRESS: Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036
PHONE: (802) 276-3162 *FAX* (802) 276-3837
TYPE OF MATERIALS: scholarly works on politics, arms debate, security issues,
etc
NAME: EMC PUBLISHING
ADDRESS: 300 York Avenue
PHONE: (800) 3281452
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Foreign language textbooks. Offers Russian Language and
People (Terry Culhane); Russian Easy Reader Series, Let's Practice Russian,
computeraided instruction on alphabet, vocabulary, colloquial phrases. Three
lessons, $39.95/lesso n, or $105 for the set.
NAME: Facts on File, Inc.
ADDRESS: 460 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 683-2244 *FAX* (212) 213-4578
COMMENTS: publishes the "Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet
Union"
NAME: Flegon Press
ADDRESS: 37B New Cavendish Street, London WIM 9JR
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write for list of offerings.
NAME: Global Education (see Social Studies School Service)
NAME: GLOBUS: A Slavic Bookstore
ADDRESS: 332 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
PHONE: (415) 6684723
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Carries large selection of books, magazines,
newspapers, children's books, mysteries, and cookbooks. Catalogue is
sent upon request.
NAME: Gower Publishing Company
ADDRESS: Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036
PHONE: (802) 276-3162 *FAX* (802) 276-3837
TYPE OF MATERIALS: European Security and Political Issues
NAME: Harvard University; National Resource Center for Russia, east
european, and Central Asian Studies
ADDRESS: 1737 Cambridge Street, cambridge, MA 02138
PHONE: (617) 495-5852 -8095 *FAX* 495-8319 *E-MAIL* vaillant
@husc4.harvard.edu
TYPE OF MATERIALS: classroom kits, activities, books, videos,
posters, etc
NAME: Harwood Academic Publishers
ADDRESS: c/o STBS, PO Box 786 Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276
TYPE OF MATERIALS: "The Soviet empire: its Nations Speak Out",
discussions of ethnic turmoil, autonomous republics, etc
NAME: Hermitage Books
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 410, Tenafly, NJ 07670
PHONE: (201) 8948247
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Primarily prose, poetry, literary criticism,
reminiscences in Russian, in paperback. Also books in English.
Available in addition: works on the arts, biographies, drama, language texts,
philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology.
NAME: Hippocrene Books
ADDRESS: 171 Madison Avenue, Mew York, NY 10016 (attn: Order
Dept)
PHONE: (718) 454-2366 *FAX* (718) 454-1391
NAME: IIE Publications
ADDRESS: 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
PHONE: (212) 9845412
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Information about international exchange, teaching abroad,
academic year abroad.
NAME: Imported Books
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 4414, Dallas, TX 75208 (2025 W. Clarendon)
PHONE: (214) 9416497
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Carries materials in many languages. Russian dictionaries,
language texts, literature in English translation (Tolstoy, Aitmatov, etc.).
Also Estonian, Polish, SerboCroatian, Ukrainian, others.
NAME: Imported Publications
ADDRESS: 320 W. Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60610
PHONE: (800) 3452665
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Books on wide variety of subject areas, including literature,
social studies, technology, etc.
NAME: Indiana University Press: Russian and East European Studies
ADDRESS: 10th and Morton Streets, Bloomington, IN 47405
PHONE: (812) 855-6804
TYPE OF MATERIALS: politics, culture
NAME: Jacob Tversky BooksellerSlavic Department
ADDRESS: P.O.B. 4356, Tel Aviv 61043, Israel
PHONE: 282573
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write for catalog. Cost: $1.00.
NAME: Kamkin
ADDRESS: 4956 Boiling Brook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852
e-mail: kamkin@kamkin.com
Web site: http://www.kamkin.com
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Carries Russian dictionaries, language texts, literature
in English translation (Tolstoy, Aitmatov, etc.).
NAME: Kettering Foundation
ADDRESS: 200 Commons Road, Dayton, OH 45459-2799
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Audio, video, and print: public policy, international
affairs, leadership education,etc
NAME: Leningrad Collection
ADDRESS: 33 Business PArk Drive, Branford, CT 06405
PHONE: 1-800-628-5949 *FAX* (203) 481-7508
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Authentic Russian Theatre Poster Prints
NAME: Liberty Publishing House/Emigre Publishing
ADDRESS: 475 5th Ave., Suite 511, New York, NY 100176220
PHONE: (212) 2132126
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Materials in Russian literature and area studies. Titles
include Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October in Russian, George Bush's autobiography,
The CIA from Roosevelt to Reagan.
NAME: Lukomorye Book Store
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 161, Bay Station, Brooklyn, NY 11235
PHONE: (718) 9811927
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write or call for listings.
NAME: McBlain Books
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5062, Hamden, CT 06518
PHONE: (203) 2810400
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write or call for catalogue: Russia, Eastern
Europe, Radicalism, Labor.
NAME: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
ADDRES: 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, NY 10504
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Books on Soviet and Eastern European Studies
NAME: M.I.P. Company
47%NAME: M.I.P. Company
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 27484, Minneapolis, MN 55427
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells a mailing list for everyone interested in
Russian and Slavic leads. Continuously updated. Nine mailing lists, such
as "Periodicals in Russian published in the West and English Periodicals,
devoted to Slavic Matters" (71 addresses, $10.00) and "Western
Bookstores selling books in Russian and Sl avic languages and Western Publishers
of Books in Russian" (108 addresses, $15.00).
NAME: Mirror
ADDRESS: 475 Riverside Dr., Room 851, New York, NY 10115
PHONE: (212) 8702511
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Published by the National Council of Churches'
USSR Travel Seminar Program.
NAME: Monterey Institute of International Studies: Program for
Nonproliferation Studies
ADDRESS: 425 Van Buren Street, Monterey, CA 93940
PHONE: (408) 647-3515, -3567, -3521, -3504 *FAX (408) 647-4199
*E-MAIL* MIISCRES @pandora.sf.ca.us
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books and periodicals on nuclear proliferation
NAME: National Textbook Company
ADDRESS: 4255 W. Touhy Ave, Chicago, IL 606461975
PHONE: (800) 3234900, (708) 679-5500 *FAX* (708) 679-2494
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Primarily an educational/foreign lang textbook company
with a number of texts for Russian studies (lang, lit, culture) and familiar
titles such as Dewey and Mersereau's Reading and Translating Contemporary
Russian, Sigfried Kohl's Bu siness Russian. Has selection of beginning,
intermediate, and advanced Russian readers. ***Publisher of Face to Face
textbook***
NAME: New World Demographics
ADDRESS: PO Box 866, Shady Side, MD 20764-0866 (contact David
Craven or Ron Steorts)
PHONE: (410) 867-3767 *FAX* (410) 867-0549
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Books and software on the demographics of the former
Soviet Union 1951-1990, as well as divisions by oblast-level administrative
areas, maps, charts, and graphs.
NAME: Orbis Books (London) LTD
ADDRESS: 66, Kenway Road, London SW5 ORD
PHONE: 013702210
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Catalogue: New Book sent out three times a year. Lists
recent titles and provides info on publications covering all aspects of
Soviet, E.Europe, and Slavonic Studies. Cost: $1.80 per catalogue, $5.00
for a year.
NAME: Oriental Research Partners
ADDRESS: Box 158489 Walnut St, Newtonville, MA 02160
PHONE: (617) 9641638
TYPE OF MATERIALS: ORP carries titles in Russian and E.Europe Soviet lit,
history, art, social studies. Will send newspapertype catalog on request.
NAME: Oryx Press
ADDRESS: 4041 North Central Ave, Suite #700, Phoenix, AZ 85012-
3397
PHONE: 1-800-279-ORYX (6799) *FAX* 1-800-279-4663 OUTSIDE
THE US: (602) 265-2651 *FAX* -6250
NAME: Oxford University Press: Slavic Studies
ADDRESS: 200 Madison Avenue, new York, NY 10016
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on Slavic studies
NAME: Panorama of Russia
ADDRESS: PO Box 44-1658, Somerville, MA 02144
TYPE OF MATERIALS: handbooks, newsletters, etc on politics, polling, society
NAME: Paradigm Press
61%NAME: Paradigm Press
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 15626, Minneapolis, MN 55415
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Makes available a series of essays by Eric Black, staff
writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, on "Rethinking the Cold War"
in paperback form.
NAME: Paragon House
ADDRESS: 90 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on the Soviet Union, Russia, Gorbachev,
and after.
NAME: PossevUSA
ADDRESS: 501 5th Ave., Suite 1612, New York, NY 10017
PHONE: (212) 5571321
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian books printed outside the USSR.
Affiliated with Possev, a Russian opposition monthly journal which features
reports on life in the USSR (journal printed in West Germany).
NAME: Princeton University Press: Slavic Studies
ADDRESS: 3175 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
64%NAME: Princeton University Press: Slavic Studies
ADDRESS: 3175 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
PHONE: 1-800-777-ISBN (4726)
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on Russia, the USSR, etc
NAME: Professors World Peace Academy
ADDRESS: GPO Box 1311, New York, NY 10116
PHONE: 1-800-634-7661
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on politics and peace
NAME: Reflection Publishing
ADDRESS: PO Box 309, Ithaca, NY 14851-0309
PHONE: (607) 277-5052
TYPE OF MATERIALS: notecards and calendars
NAME: Reprints for the Soviet Press, Compass Print Publications
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 20673, New York, NY 10025
TYPE OF MATERIALS: A semimonthly journal in English of current articles,
documents, and reports from the original sources.
NAME: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, Inc
ADDRESS: 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291
PHONE: (212) 244-6412
COMMENTS: published "The Soviet Union: A Systematic Geography"
by Leslie Symons, and "The Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective"
by James H. Bater
NAME: Russian Embassy
ADDRESS: 1706 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
PHONE: (202) 3471355
TYPE OF MATERIALS: See also AV Suppliers. Has a variety of
pamphlets and other print materials available on request.
NAME: Russian Information Services
ADDRESS: 89 Main Street #2, Montpelier, VT 05602
PHONE: 800-639-4301 *FAX* (802) 223-6105
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books, travel guides, maps, dictionaries
NAME: Russian Language Specialists
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 711, Pullman, MI 49450
PHONE: (616) 2365880
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian and Soviet books on wide variety of subjects:
lit, history, social sciences, etc. Also records posters, calendars. Will
supply free calendars in Russian for studentson a single 3x7 card.
NAME: Russian Mission
ADDRESS: 136 West 67th St, New York, NY 10021
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Pamphlets on a wide variety of topics.
NAME: Russian Press Service, Inc.
ADDRESS: 1805 Crain Street, Evanston, IL 60202, USA
PHONE: (708) 491-9851 *FAX* (708) 491-1440
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Books on History, Law, Politics, Social sciences,
Art, Humanities, etc. In Russian.
NAME: Scholarly Resources, Inc
ADDRESS: 104 Greenhill AVe, Wilmington, DE 19805-1897
PHONE: 1-800-772-8937
TYPE OF MATERIALS: scholarly works on politics and international
relations
NAME: "Scholasticus" Publishing
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2727, Springfield, VA 22152
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells The USSR Today: Facts and Interpretations, Third
Revised Edition, 1987, by Leo Hecht of George Mason University.
NAME: Slavica Publishers, Inc.
ADDRESS: 2611 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408-2603
e-mail: slavica@indiana.edu
Web site, with catalog: http://www.slavica.com
NAME: Social Studies School Service: Global Education
ADDRESS: 10200 Jefferson Boulevard, Room Y0, PO Box 802, Culver
City, CA 90232-0802
PHONE: 1-800-421-4246 (310) 839-2436 *FAX* (310) 839-2249
TYPE OF MATERIALS: All sorts of materials for elementary and secondary geography,
politics, United Nations, almanacs, environment, atlases, maps, globes,
etc.
NAME: SovietAmerican News: A Citizen's Voice
ADDRESS: 14426 NE 16th Place, Bellevue, WA 98007
NAME: St. Martin's Press:Scholarly and Reference Division: Slavic
Studies
ADDRESS: 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
PHONE: 800-221-7945, in NY state (212) 674-5151
TYPE OF MATERIALS: business, economics, culture, history, politics, security,
etc
NAME: Szwede Slavic Books
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1214, 2233 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 943021214
PHONE: (415) 3275590 and 8510748
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian/Soviet topics and areas; language and
literature, art, theater, music, political science, Emigre publications.
NAME: Thornton's of Oxford
ADDRESS: 11 Broad street, Oxford, OX1 3AR, England
PHONE: 0865-242939
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian and East European literature, criticism,
dictionaries, reprints, bibliographies, art, Biblia Slavica
NAME: Time Life Books, Inc: Library of Nations series, The Soviet
Union
NAME: University of California at Berkeley
ADDRESS: Center for Slavic and East European Studies, 361 Stephens
Hall,Berkeley, CA 94720
PHONE: (510) 642-3230 *FAX* (510) 643-5045
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books
NAME: University of California Press
ADDRESS: 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on history, political science, literature
COMMENTS: last catalog and order form that we have is from 1985
NAME: UCLA Center for Russian and East European Studies
TYPE OF MATERIALS: "Teacher's Resource Handbook for Russian and
East Europe: Preschool through Community College. by Val D. Rust and Jeff
Artz
NAME: The University of Illinois Press
ADDRESS: 54 East Gregory drive, Champaign, IL 61820
TYPE OF MATERIALS: scholarly books
NAME: The University of Michigan Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
ADDRESS: Modern Languages Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
TYPE OF MATERIALS: scholarly books on Slavic languages, linguistics,
literature, criticism
NAME: University of Pittsburgh Press
ADDRESS: 127 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 or c/o CUP
Services, Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14850
PHONE: (412) 624-4110 or 1-800-666-2211 *FAX* (607) 272-6292
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Scholarly books on Slavic history, political
science, economics, etc
NAME: University Press of America, Inc
ADDRESS: 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
PHONE: (301) 459-3366
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on history, government and politics,
language and literature, socioeconomics, textbooks, etc.
NAME: Unwin Hyman, Inc (formerly Allen and Unwin)
ADDRESS: 8 Winchester Place, Winchester, MA 01890
PHONE: (617) 729-0830, 1-800-547-8889
TYPE OF MATERIALS: books on history, language, politics, etc.
NAME: Victor Kamkin
ADDRESS: 12224 Parklawn Dr, Rockville, MD 20852 & 149 W 5th
Ave, NY, NY 10010
PHONE: (301) 8815973/(212) 6730776
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Prose, poetry, language texts, books on virtually any
subject (science, sports, history, etc.). Large gift section, records, regalia.
Has catalogs for separate areas of interest (periodicals, English lang publications,
topics in li t, social studies. Sends catalogs on request; issues new catalogs
at regular intervals.
COMMENTS: last catalog we have is from 1987
NAME: Volga Russian Books
ADDRESS: 7711 169th Street, Flushing, NY 11366
PHONE: (212) 9697611
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write for listing of books for sale. Types of books include:
literary criticism, novels, histories poetry, and books for children. COMMENTS:
last catalog we have is from 1984
NAME: The Washington Institute Press
ADDRESS: Suite 200, 1667 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
PHONE: (202) 293-7440
TYPE OF MATERIALS: roster of Soviet nomenklatura, other books and
journals
NAME: Waveland Press, Inc.
ADDRESS: PO Box 400, prospect Heights, IL 60070
PHONE: (312) 634-0081
TYPE OF MATERIALS: scholarly books on history
NAME: Westview Press
ADDRESS: 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301
PHONE: (303) 444-3541 *FAX* (303) 449-3356
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Slavic studies: politics, economics, international
relations, security studies
NAME: Znanie Books
ADDRESS: 5237 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94118
PHONE: (415) 7527555
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian/Soviet books, realia, znachki, wooden paskha
forms(handmade), reproductions of famous Russian paintings (on canvas),
Easter and Christmas greeting cards, wide variety of Russian/Soviet gifts.
Have in stock a large quantity o f the Baker edition of Russian for Everybody.
Set of three books: textbook, workbook, and "Let's Talk & Read",
$14.50. Teacher's Manual: manual and cassette tapes, $13.50.
NAME: Access Network
ADDRESS: 295 Midpark Way S.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2x 2A8
PHONE: (403) 256-1100
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Videos (Ukranian Folktales)
NAME: ADL AV Library
ADDRESS: 22-D Hollywood Ave., Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423
PHONE: 800-343-5540
TYPE OF MATERIALS: AV catalog
NAME:Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc.
ADDRESS: 381 Park Ave. South, Suite 1601, New York, NY 10016.
NAME:American School Publishers
ADDRESS: Box 408, Highstown, NJ 08520.
NAME: AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith
ADDRESS: 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
PHONE: (212) 4902525
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Film: Soviet Dissidents in Exile.
NAME: Ark's Intervideo
ADDRESS: 545 Ortega St., San Francisco, CA 94122
PHONE: (415) 7313695
TYPE OF MATERIAL: Sells videotape cassettes of Soviet films, old and
new,some with subtitles. Prices $35$60, VHS and Beta.
NAME: AudioForum, Division of Jeffery Norton Publishers
ADDRESS: 96 Broad St.,Guilford, CT 06437
PHONE: (203) 4539794
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Solzhenitsyn reads One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
in Russian3 cassettes (4 hrs & 10 min). Modern Russian 1 & 2, How
to Pronounce Russian Correctly.
NAME: Audio-Visual Services
ADDRESS: Penn State University, Special Services Bldg., 1127 Fox Hill
Rd.,University Park, PA 16803
PHONE: (814) 865-6314
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Videos
NAME: Authentic Russian Theater
ADDRESS: USI, Inc., 33 Business Park Dr., Branford, CT 06405
PHONE: 800-628-5949
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian Poster Prints for order.
NAME: Babel Productions
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 746, Middlebury, VT 05753
PHONE: (802) 388-7611
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Audiocassettes to accompany textbook,
Russian for Everybody.
NAME: Barr Films
ADDRESS: 12801 Schabarum Ave., Box 7878, Irwindale, CA 91706.
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NAME: Benchmark Films, Inc.
ADDRESS: 145 Scarborough Rd., Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
PHONE: (914) 7623838
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents 16 mm film and all video
formats. One film about a visit to the USSR.
NAME: Bulgarian Mission to the United Nations
23%NAME: Bulgarian Mission to the United Nations
ADDRESS: 11 East 84th St., New York, NY 10028
PHONE: (212) 7374790
NAME: Cable News Network Video Tape/Film Library
ADDRESS: One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30348-5366
PHONE: (404) 8271335
TYPE OF MATERIALS: The program Iron Curtain Rises has six 45
minute tapes on East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary,
and Bulgaria
NAME: Canada-USSR Association Inc.
ADDRESS: 280 Queen Street Wets, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2A1
PHONE: (416) 977-5819, 593-0781, 596-1323
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Photos, free except shipping charges
NAME: Carousel Film & Video
ADDRESS: 241 E. 34th Street Room 304, New York, NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 6831660
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Distributes Russian Lubok, 16 min VHS.
10 min. Information from The Video Source Book. $225.00. Color.
NAME: Cartridge King
ADDRESS: 825 West End Ave., New York, NY 10025
PHONE: (212) 7490961
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Multistandard TV/video equipment
(PAL/SECAM/NTSC). Brands include SONY, SANYO, AKAI, JVC, HITACHI, others.
NAME: Catticus Corporation
ADDRESS: 2600 Tenth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
PHONE: (510) 5480854
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells all video formats. Has video: The First
Fifty Years (19331983): Reflections on US & Soviet Relations.(1983)
NAME: Center for Humanities
ADDRESS: Communication Park, Box 1000, Mount Kisco, NY 10549-
0010.
NAME: Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age
ADDRESS: 1493 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
PHONE: (617) 4971553
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells videos. One program, A Day at School in
Moscow with accompanying guide.
NAME: Christian Science Monitor
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 78643, Indianapolis, IN 46278.
NAME: Cinema Guild, The
ADDRESS: 1697 Broadway, Suite 802, New York, NY 10019
PHONE: (212) 2465522
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents 16 mm film and all video
formats. Two programs: US vs. USSR: Who's Ahead (1983) and The Story of
Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz (1984).
NAME: Citizens Exchange Council
ADDRESS: 12 West 31st St., New York, NY 10001
PHONE: (212) 6431985
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Video format. Questions on the Soviet Legal
System,
Christopher Senie. First Encounters, a film about a first visit to the
Soviet Union by a tourist.
NAME: Comin, Inc./Imagine a Better World
ADDRESS: 615 E. 7th Ave, Suite B, Denver, CO 80203
PHONE: (303) 830-7770
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Makes available a commemorative recording of selections
from the Washington and New York AmericanSoviet Youth Orchestra.
NAME: Concerned Friends of Soviet People
ADDRESS: 280 Queen St. W, Toronto, Ont.,Canada, M5V 2A1
PHONE: (416) 977-5819
TYPE OF MATERIALS: films/videos
NAME: Connoisseur Video Collection
ADDRESS: 8436 W. 3rd St. Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA. 90048
PHONE: (213) 653-8873
TYPE OF MATERIALS: At least one Hungarian film.
NAME: Consortium for Language Teaching & Learning
ADDRESS: 111 Grove St., New Haven, CT 06511
PHONE: (203) 4320590
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has a onehour video of Vremya and teaching
materials to be used with it.
NAME: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
ADDRESS: Cultural Section, 233 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 8898360
NAME: Contact Overseas
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 130, New Town Br., Boston, MA. 02258
PHONE: (617) 969-7686
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian and documentary films in Russian
with English subtitles and dubbed
NAME: Continental Video
ADDRESS: 2017 Balboa, San Francisco, CA. 94121
PHONE: (415) 752-6153
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian films without subtitles
NAME: Corinth Films
ADDRESS: 34 Gansevoort St., New York, NY 10014
PHONE: (212) 463-0305 or 1-800-221-4720
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents 16 mm films produced since 1924 large collection,
most in Russian with English subtitles. Also has documentaries on Soviet
ballet: The Children of Theater Street (90 min., color, 1977); Moscow Ballet
School (19 min., color, 19 73); Galina Ulanova: Her Life and Art (37 min.,
b&w, 1964). Feature and performing arts films. Operas Khovanshchina,
Pikovaja dama, Boris Godunov. Also videos, laser disc and VHS available.
Rimeky Korsakov, Tsar's Bride. $39.95 VHS.
NAME: Coronet/MTI Films and Video
ADDRESS: 108 Wilmont Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
PHONE: (708) 9401260
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Historical and cultural programs for secondary students.
Programs such as Igor and the Dancing Stallion and Tanya the Puppeteer for
an elementary or Jr. High audience. Also, The Challenge of the Caucasus,
a program about American a nd Soviet teenagers climbing Mt. Elbrus in 1985.
Sells 16mm film and VHS, Beta I & II, 3/4" videos.
NAME: Danmarks Radio, TVByen
ADDRESS: Video Section, DK 2860 Soborg, Denmark
PHONE: (451) 67 12 33 Telex: 27386 drinkt dk
TYPE OF MATERIALS: VHS and Beta videocassettes. Seven films by Samuel Rachlin.
English subtitles and some English narration. Danish and Russian.
NAME: Dimitri Devyatkin
ADDRESS: 134 Haven Avenue, New York, NY 10012
PHONE: (718) 802-0247
TYPE OF MATERIALS: No information on formats. One program
video from
Russia, Let the People Speak.
NAME: Documentary Films
ADDRESS: Richard W. Adams, 340 E. 58th St., New York, NY 10022
PHONE: (212) 8323254
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has 16mm films. Citizens (October, 1986) on
human dimensions of the Solidarity period in Poland.
NAME: Educational Film and Video Project
ADDRESS: 1725B Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062
PHONE: (510) 8491649
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Series about the nuclear question includes
What About the Russians (26 min., color, 1982), features interviews with
Mark Hatfield, George Kennan, others. 16mm films, videocassettes (VHS, Beta,
3/4"). Alternate address also listed: 1529 Josephine St., Berkeley,
CA 94703. Also programs on citizen bridges, Soviet school day, nuclear weapons.
Has Direct Connection, which documents the beginning of exchange of high
school students in the US and USSR that resulted in personal meetings with
Pres. Reagan and Secretary Gorbachev. Also has The Black Tulip, a look at
the human costs of the Afghan War on the Soviet Union, including interviews
with Soviet soldiers.
NAME: Embassy of Kazakhstan
PHONE: (202) 333-4504
NAME: Embassy of Kyrgyzstan
ADDRESS: 1511 K St. NW, Washington, DC
PHONE: (202) 347-3732
NAME: Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republics
ADDRESS: 3009 Linnean Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008
PHONE: (202) 3636315
NAME: Embassy of the Republic of Georgia
PHONE: (202) 393-5959
NAME: Embassy of the Republic of Poland
ADDRESS: 2540 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009
PHONE: (202) 2343800
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Contact for current list.
NAME: Embassy of the Russian Federation
ADDRESS: Film Library, 1125 16th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
PHONE: (202) 628-7551
TYPE OF MATERIALS: 16 mm films
NAME: Embassy of the Ukraine
ADDRESS: 1828 L St., NW, Washington, DC
PHONE: (202) 296-6960
NAME: European Video Distributors
ADDRESS: 2321 West Olive Av., Burbank, CA. 91506
PHONE: (818) 848-5902; (800) 423-6752
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Collection of Hungarian opera, drama,
documentary and feature films, 1931-90. In Hungarian.
NAME: Eurotrade
ADDRESS: 1650 Barnes Mill Road NE, Suite 1522, Marietta, GA. 30062
PHONE: (404) 426-8305
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Lithuanian films.
NAME: Evergreen Video Society, The
ADDRESS: 228 West Houston St., New York, NY 10014
PHONE: (212) 691-7362
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells feature films from Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Poland, and the Russia. All are subtitled.
NAME: Facetoface: Conversations on USSoviet Summitry
ADDRESS: SCETV Marketing, BOX 11,000, Columbia, SC 29211
PHONE: (803) 7373200
TYPE OF MATERIALS: A onehour face- to -face educational television program
of scholars and past summit participants' discussions; has been expanded
to a fourpart series. The Making of Russia 1480-1860 Program 21 of The World.
NAME: Facets Multimedia
ADDRESS: 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
PHONE: (312) 2819075; (800) 3316197(from out of state)
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells video, VHS. Soviet and East European feature films
with English subtitles, a few silent classics, and performing arts programs.
Good quality. Also has variety of educational and documentary videos such
as When I Think of Rus sia, Video from Russia (Devyatkin's program), and
documentaries on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Eisenstein, and Basic Russian
on Video.
NAME: Fellowship of Reconciliation
ADDRESS: 523 N. Broadway, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960
PHONE: (914) 358-4601
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has produced a narrated slide show on
glasnost and developments in the USSR with music by the Paul Winter Consort.
NAME: Festival Films
ADDRESS: 6115 Chestnut Terrace, Shorewood, MN 55331
PHONE: 1-800-798-6083 *FAX* (612) 470-2172
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Films, a few classics
NAME: Film Fair Communications
ADDRESS: AHschul Group Corp., 1560 Sherman Ave. #100, Evanston,
IL 60201
PHONE: (708) 328-6700
TYPE OF MATERIALS: The Russian Authors Series
NAME: Filmic Archives
ADDRESS: The Cinema Center, Botsford, CT 06404
PHONE: (203) 261-1920; WWW: http://www.fimlmicarchives.com
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Foreign Films. Sells classic Soviet silent films and
several audio films from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe with English
subtitles. VHS and 3/4" Umatic.
NAME: Filmmakers Library, Inc.
ADDRESS: 124 East 40th St., Suite 901, New York, NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 3556545
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents 16 mm film. Programs: Rock Around the
Kremlin (1986), Ten Days in May (1986), and Spark Among the Ashes.
NAME: Films for the Humanities
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
PHONE: (609) 4521128, (800) 2575126 (outside NJ)
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents & sells videocassettes and 16 mm films on Russian
literary figures: Chekhov, Mayakovsky, others. Offers The Birth of Soviet
Cinema, The Mighty Fistful (60 min., color, 19th century Russian composers),
One Word of Truth (29 min. , color, based on Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize
speech), Stanislavsky: Maker of the Modern Theatre (29 min., color), Yevgeny
Yevtushenko (29 min., color). The Cuban Missile Crisis (20 min. b&w),
Red Dawn (20 min b&w), October 1917 (52 min. b&w) Suicide Mission
to Chernobyl (1991), Blue Eye of Siberia; Lake Baikal, The Life & Times
of Josef Stalin, Soviets: series of five.
NAME: Films Incorporated
ADDRESS: 5547 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 606401199
PHONE: (312) 8782600, x43; outside IL: (800) 3234222, x43
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells videocassette series, Russian Language and People.
Soviet TV only purchase VHS purchase feature: Fact and Fiction, War and
Peace, Ivan the Terrible, A few feature films available, but compare prices
first. Feature and short fi lms from Bulgaria, Czechoslavakia, GDR, Hungary,
Poland, USSR, Yugoslavia. Documentary on Stalin in 3 parts.
NAME: First Run Icarus Films
ADDRESS: 153 Waverly Pl., New York, NY 10014
PHONE: 800-876-1710
TYPE OF MATERIALS: films
NAME: Global American Television
ADDRESS: Shearer Road, Colrain, MA 01340
PHONE: (413) 6252402
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has all video formats. Has one program A Citizen's Summit/Dialogue
(1986) Overture: East Meets West in Music, Moscow Meridian series
NAME: Gould Media Inc.
ADDRESS: 44 Parkway West, Mount Vernon, NY 105521194
PHONE: (914) 6643285
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Slides. Sets of Russian/Soviet historical events
and leaders.
NAME: GPN
ADDRESS: Box 80669, Lincoln, NE 685010669
PHONE: 1-800-228-4630
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Slides. Geographical slide sets on
Czechoslovakia, Poland,and the Soviet Union and Soviet Agriculture.
NAME: Guidance Associates-The Center for Humanities
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1000, Mount Kisco, NY 10549
PHONE: 800-431-1242
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Catalog of videos
NAME: Harriman Institute
ADDRESS: Columbia U., 420 West 118th St., New York, NY 10027
PHONE: (212) 854-4623
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Library for Students, charge for copying
NAME: Home Vision
ADDRESS: Films Inc., PMI,5547 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL
606401199
PHONE: (800) 3234222, x43; (312)8782600, x43
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells VHS cassettes; performances of ballets and Tchaikovsky
and Shostakovich. Also Opera, Art, Russian Laguage and People. Soap: Goodbye
Summer. interactive laser disk
NAME: Ideas in Motion
ADDRESS: 141 Tenth St., San Francisco, CA 94103
PHONE: (415) 8635500
TYPE OF MATERIALS: All video formats. Saxophone Diplomacy
(1985)
NAME: Illinois, Russ and E.Europe Center, Univ of
ADDRESS: 1208 W. California, Urbana, IL 61801
PHONE: (217) 3331244
TYPE OF MATERIALS: A wide variety of slides, tapes, films, and
videos available to Illinois educators only. Contact center for complete
updated listings.
NAME: Indiana University Film Resource Order (Audio Visual Center)
IU Russian and Eastern European Institute
ADDRESS: Indiana University, 565 Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN
47405
PHONE: (812) 335-2103
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Audio-visuals. Rents 16 mm films, VHS & 3/4"
videos. Programs on Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. only for students.
NAME: Inter Film
ADDRESS: 280 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ont M5V 2A1
PHONE: 9775819, 5930781, 5961323
TYPE OF MATERIALS: To be put on mailing list to receive catalog which features
names, synopsis, length, and cost of videos, send name and address. Videos
are priced very low for mass distribution. Some examples: Chronicle of October
1917, Leo Tolstoi, Peace for Europe, Karl Marx, Leonid Brezhnev, Spartacus
Ballet, Who Threatens Peace, Conquerors of the Universe, and Birds Are Flying
Over Me (Dovzhenko).
NAME: International Film Bureau
ADDRESS: 332 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL 60604-4382.
PHONE: (312) 4274545
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Carries Martian in Moscow (see Supplementary Materials),
films for use in Russian language classroom, including the Syracuse University.
Short series on Russia: From Moscow to the Baykal
NAME: International Film Exchange
ADDRESS: 201 West 52nd St., New York, NY 10019
PHONE: (212) 5824318
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian and E. European films, special rental rates for
educational use. Good source for current releases. Prices, fliers on request.
All films are subtitled in English. Also sells videocassettes, VHS.
NAME: International Film Foundation
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 20115, Cathedral Finance Station, NY,NY 10025
PHONE: (212) 5801111
TYPE OF MATERIALS: IFF both sells and rents its films: (25 min., color,
1980), The Soviet Union: A New Look (25 min., color, 1978), and The Iron
Mountain: A Siberian Creation Myth (10 min., color, 1979). Some of these
films can also be rented from university film libraries.
(Second address also listed: 155 W. 72nd St., NY, NY 10023.)
NAME: International Historic Films
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 29035, Chicago, IL 60629.
PHONE: (312) 927-2900
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Soviet classics such as Man with a Movie
Camera and Ivan the Terrible. Films are in Russian with English subtitles.
Also war documentaries,Soviet propaganda films of the Vietnam era, and others
such as video of SoyuzApollo linkup. Sells VHS and Beta.
NAME: International Video Broadcasts
ADDRESS: 3700 Pender Drive, Suite 107A, Fairfax, VA 22030.
NAME: Journal Films, Inc., Perennial Education, Inc.
ADDRESS: 1560 Sherman Ave.Suite 100 , Evanston, IL 60201
PHONE: (800) 3235448 (Call collect from AL, HA, AK)
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Australian series Soviet Style..., and programs, Poland
and Russia Off the Record, Beyond Communism: The People of Perestroika,
5-part series.
NAME: Kara East West Productions
ADDRESS: Dronningensgade 75, DK 1420 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
NAME: Kultur
ADDRESS: 121 Highway 36 West Long Branch, NJ 07764
PHONE: (908) 229-5535
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Kirov and Bolshoi Opera and Ballet
performances. Sells VHS and Beta.
NAME: Landmark Films Inc.
ADDRESS: 3450 Slade Run Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042.
NAME: LDL VIDEO
ADDRESS: PO Box 97598 Las Vegas, NV 89193-7598
PHONE: 1-800-899-1750
TYPE OF MATERIALS: all videos
NAME: Learning Corporation of America
ADDRESS: 1440 S. Sepulmeda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
PHONE: (310) 4448480
TYPE OF MATERIALS: LCA both sells and rents its films, but it encourages
users to rent from univ. film libraries, which is usually more economical.
Among films are : The Theory That Split a World (1970), distributed by:
Nielson D Ferns International. c/o Mister G. Chalmers Adams Toronto Star
Newspaper Ltd. Suite 1912, Box 12 , 200 King st, W Toronto, Ont. M5H3T4
NAME: Leningrad Collection
ADDRESS: 33 Business Park Drive, Branford, CT 06405
PHONE: 1-800-628-5949 *FAX* (203) 481-7508
TYPE OF MAYTERIALS: authentic Russian theatre posters
NAME: Library Distributors of America, Inc.
ADDRESS: PO Box 97598, Las Vegas, NV 89193-7598
PHONE: 1-800-966-5130
TYPE OF MATERIALS: "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union," a
two volume boxed set, video overview of 700 years of Russian history
NAME: Linguitronics
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 9504, Arlington, VA 22209.
NAME: Maison Russe, Russian Curios Shop
ADDRESS: 1720 Ogden Ave., Lisle, IL 60532
PHONE: (708) 9635160
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Available for purchase: Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov,
Dr. Zhivago, and Peter the First. This is a gift shop. Eugene Oregin, The
Kremlin, The Queen of Spades. Vladimir Hotowitz, The last Romantic.
NAME: Media For the Arts
ADDRESS: 360 Thames st., Newport, RI 02840
PHONE: (401) 8466580
TYPE OF MATERIALS: About 40 slide sets on Russian icons, Several 100 Russian
painters available. Write for current price list. Some examples of videos
available: The Children of Theatre Street, The Nutcracker, Macbeth. and
The Ultimate Swan Lake.
NAME: Media Guild, The
ADDRESS: 11722 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite E, San Diego, CA 92121
PHONE: (619) 7559191 800-886-9191
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents 16mm films and all video formats. Has
the World at War series, programs, Red Star: The Soviet Union,Part of World
At War Series. 194143 (1973) and Karl Marx: The Spectre of Marxism.
NAME: Mike's Productions
ADDRESS: 227 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11235
PHONE: (718) 9342224
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Write for list of offerings
NAME: Multi Entertainment Holdings
ADDRESS: 14724 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1000, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403.
NAME: Museum of Modern Art
ADDRESS: Circulating Film Library, 11 West 53rd St, NY, NY 10019
PHONE: (212) 7089530, FAX: 2127089889
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents and sells 16mm films, early Soviet cinema classics.
Most are available for rent only. Following their national tour the Glasnost
Festival films will be available for rental from the Circulating Film Library.
They are all on 3 5mm and in Russian with English subtitles.Battleship Potomkin,
Bed & Sofa, Mother Eisenstein. $80 -$125.
NAME: National Archives
ADDRESS: Trust Fund Fund Board, Washington, D.C. 20408
PHONE: 800-788-6282
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Posters and facsimiles, language-learning
programs by the Foreign Service Institute
NAME: National Audio Visual Center
ADDRESS: 8700 Edgeworth Rd., Capitol Heights, MD. 20743
NAME: National Audio Visual Center
ADDRESS: Order Section WF, Washington, DC 20409
(8700 Edgeworth Dr., Capitol Heights, MD 20743)
PHONE: (800) 6381300 (800) 788-6282
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents all video formats. The Battle of Russia
(produced in 1944); Sitka (explores Russian colonization of North America);
The Mission of ApolloSoyuz.
NAME: National Council of American/Soviet Friendship
DIRECTOR: Alan Thomson
ADDRESS: 85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
PHONE: (212) 2546606
ACTIVITIES: Has a new edition of its Films of the USSR catalogue listing
550 Sovietproduced 16mm documentaries not otherwise available in this country;
catalogue costs $12.50 with binder, $7.50 without. Also has a supplement
to the catalogue.
NAME: National Council of Churches
ADDRESS: 475 Riverside Dr., Room 856, NY,NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 8702574
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents one program: Church of the Russians
(1983).
NAME: National Film Board of Canada
ADDRESS: 1251 Ave. of the Americas 16th floor, NYC, NY 10020
PHONE: (212) 596-1770
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Russian Language Films
NAME: National Geographic, Educational Services, Department 88
ADDRESS: 17th and M St. N.W., Washington, DC 20036
PHONE: (202) 8577215; (800) 6384077
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells as film or videotape The Volga, Siberia,
The Endless Horizonothers $495 and lower.
NAME: National Issues Forums
ADDRESS: 100 Commons Road, Dayton, OH 454592777
PHONE: (200) 4337834, (800) 4334819 (inside Ohio)
TYPE OF MATERIALS: VHS and U matic forms. The Superpowers: Nuclear Weapon
and National Security and The Soviets: What Is the Conflict About
NAME: NBC External Archives
ADDRESS: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY,NY 10112
PHONE: (212) 6643554
TYPE OF MATERIALS: 3/4" U video. One program, Religion in the Soviet
Union: Another Look (1984).
NAME: New York Network
ADDRESS: SUNY, Alfred Smith Building, 12th floor P.O. Box 7012,
Albany, NY
12225
PHONE: (518) 443-5333
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Language video materials, including series:
Contact
NAME: New Yorker Films
ADDRESS: 161 West 61st St, New York, NY 10023
PHONE: (212) 2476110
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents 16mm films: feature films, from
Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union. All have English subtitles
NAME: NJR Video
ADDRESS: 10 Three Village Lane, Setauket, NY 11753
PHONE: (516) 689-6246
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents VHS. Interview with Liubimov and
several of his major Moscow productions filmed by an academic. Unedited.
NAME: Northeast Conference Media
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 623, Middlebury, VT 05753
PHONE: (802) 863-9939
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Posters, recordings of Northeast
Conference presentations. Cassette duplication (212) 227-7440.
NAME: Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European
Studies
ADDRESS: 300 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-
1219
PHONE: (614) 292-8770 *FAX* (614) 292-4273
COMMENTS: videotape and film library available to educational institutions
in the state of Ohio
NAME: OLGA Translation Service
ADDRESS: 6861 Yellowstory Bld. #109, Forest Hills, NY 11375
PHONE: (718) 2616449
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Twelve cassettes of literary works.
NAME: Pacific Arts Video Records
ADDRESS: Pacific Arts Building, Carmel, CA 93923.
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Backstage at the Kirov (1883). Catalog $2.00.
NAME: Parallax Productions
ADDRESS: 727 Greenwich St., "9-J, New York, NY 10014.
NAME: Passport to Knowledge: AV programs in International Studies
ADDRESS: Journal Films, Inc,1560 Sherman Ave. Suite
100,Evanston,IL 60201
PHONE: (800) 3235448
TYPE OF MATERIALS: The Soviet Style Series. Explore the economy, politics,
and culture of the Soviet Union with this series of programs. The similarities
and differences between Soviet and American institutions are clearly illustrated.
VHS, Beyond Com munism: The People of Perestroika (series) 5 tapes-on different
republics.
NAME: PBS Video
ADDRESS: 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314
PHONE: (703)7395380; (800)3443337, to order; (800)4247963,
for info
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells and rents videotapes. Particularly useful for enrich
ment; has many programs that have been shown on PBS. Programs presented
on Frontline, Inside Story, and others relevant to Soviet studies. Programs
available include Dat eline Moscow, Director in Exile, Jona Juras, Inside
the USSR, Journey to Russia, Power Shift: The Soviet Army Buildup, Red Army,
The Russians Are Here, and Yulya's Diary.
NAME: Peacelinks , Grains of Sand
ADDRESS: 747 8th St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
PHONE: (202) 5440805
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Peace Links' video Drops of Water documentary of their
visit to the USSR: highlights meetings with prominent women in Moscow, as
well as with Soviets in four other republics.
NAME: Pennsylvania State University, Audio-Visual Services
ADDRESS: Special Services Building, 1127 Fox Hill Rd., University
Park, PA. 16803-1824
PHONE: (814)865-6314, Fax: (814)863-2574
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Programs deal withall areas of the former Soviet Union
including education, the Soviet space program, U.S.-Soviet Relations, politics
and international relations.
NAME: Pittsburgh Center for Int'l Studies, Univ of
ADDRESS: 4E23 Forbes Quad, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: (412) 64807403
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Loans and sells VHS, Beta I & II, 3/4" videos.
Fourpart series, Poland: 1000 Years of History and Culture.(out
dated)$300.
NAME: Presentelevision Inc.
ADDRESS: 540 Henry St., Brooklyn, NY
PHONE: (718)802-0247
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Films
NAME: Purdue Univ, Dept of FLL, William Buffington
ADDRESS: Stanley Coulter Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907
PHONE: (317) 4943840 or 494-3862
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has 45 videocassette series, Russian Civilization and
Culture. Individual programs on Lenin, Russian food, art, music, print media,
Soviet youth, architecture, much more. 50 min. per cassette.
NAME: Quest Productions, Bill Jersey
ADDRESS: 2600 10th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
PHONE: (510) 5480854
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Produces documentaries such as: The First Fifty Years:
Reflections on USSoviet Relations, in which Averell Harriman, George Kennan,
Richard Nixon, Marshall Shulman, and Harrison Salisbury give their views
on the subject, and Faces of the Enemy, about the public's perceptions of
enemies; the film deals with the USSR's presentation of Americans to its
public and vice versa.
NAME: Riverside Pix
ADDRESS: Wilders Plads, 19 DK1403 Copenhagen K., Denmark
TYPE OF MATERIALS: videos. Solidarnosc: The Hope from Gdansk, Chernobyl
Autumn Among the Laps
NAME: Rounder Records
ADDRESS: 61 Prospect Street, Montpelier, VT 05602.
NAME: Russian-American Broadcasting Co.
ADDRESS: One Bridge Plaza, Suite 145, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
PHONE: 800-722-2080
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Films, videos, newsletter, etc.
NAME: Russian Culture Videotapes
ADDRESS: Continuing Education: Division of Media-based services
116 Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
47907
PHONE: (317) 494-6315
NAME: Russian and International Songs Record Co., Inc.
ADDRESS: 206 Jewett Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07304
PHONE: (201) 4339867
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Records, cassettes, featuring a wide variety of individuals
and groups. Vysotsky, Bichevskaya, Shalyapin, Piekha. Also Skazki, Dr. Ajbolit,
Also, more than 200 titles of Soviet films in Russian. Few are subtitled
in English.
NAME: Russian Motion Pictures
ADDRESS: Russian-American Educational Services, One Bridge Plaza
Suite 145, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
PHONE: 800-722-2080 ext. 169
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Catalog
NAME: Russica
ADDRESS: 799 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
PHONE: (212)4737480
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Records of songs sung by Vysotsky, and
Okudzhava.
NAME: Saenta International
ADDRESS: Box 9987, San Jose, CA 95157
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Six Polish films with English subtitles.
NAME: School Library Journal
ADDRESS: Library Distributors of America, Inc., P.O. Box 97598, Las Vegas,
NV 89193
PHONE: 800-966-5130
TYPE OF MATERIALS: "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union" (video)
NAME: SCOLA
PHONE: (402) 280-4063
NAME: Search For Common Ground
ADDRESS: 2005 Massachusetts Ave NW, Lower Level, Wash, DC
20036
PHONE: (202) 2653400
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells VHS and Beta. Has Chernobyl and Three Mile Island,
a spacebridge program.
NAME: Social Studies School Service
ADDRESS: 10,000 Culver Blvd, Dept 14, Box 802, Culver City, CA
90230
PHONE: (800) 4214246
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Selections in video format include The Battle of Russia,
US Soviet Relations (Closeup Foundation series), Red Star, and Stalingrad
(the latter two from the World at War series). Also has feature films such
as Reds and Nicholas and A lexandra. 81%Stalingrad (the latter two from
the World at War series). Also has feature films such as Reds and Nicholas
and Alexandra.
TITLE: Soviet Television: Fact and Fiction
SOURCE: Films Incorporated
COST: $198.00
COMMENTS: BBC program. Excerpts from Soviet television in Russian with good,
clear titles. Part I focuses on news coverage; part II on entertainment.
Each part followed by a discussion with British scholars and Vladimir Posner.
NAME: SUNY/SOVIET TV PROJECT (contact: Rebecca Stanley)
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 7012, 12th Floor, State Office Building, Albany, NY
12225
PHONE: (518) 4435333
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Has "Let's Get Acquainted" Russian lang instruction
series, which comes on three VHS cassettes (three lessons per cassette)
with complete teacher's materials and background. Also has list of Soviet
TV documentaries. All are availabl e with the original Russian soundtrack,
some with English soundtracks, and can be used in courses on literature,
culture, and history. Write for more information.
NAME: Tamarelle's International Films, Ltd.
ADDRESS: 110 Cohasset Stage Road, Chico, CA 95926
PHONE: (916) 8953429
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Videotapes, $39.00 and up. The Overcoat, Aleksandr Nevsky,
Man with the Movie Camera, Moscow on the Hudson, and others. Also many videos
of ballets.
NAME: Tatyana Gallery
ADDRESS: 145 East 27th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10016
PHONE: (212) 683-2387
COMMENTS: "Soviet Art is our Specialty"
NAME: Ukrainian Lang Resource Ctr, Canadian Inst. of Ukr. Studies
ADDRESS: 335 Athabasca Hall, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta,
T6G 2E8 Canada
PHONE: (403) 4322904
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Films, videocassettes and slide/tape programs in Ukrainian
and English. Rental fees may be introduced in 1988. Currently borrower pays
only for postage both ways. Harvest of Despair: The 192223 Famine in the
Ukraine, documentari es, cultural programs.
NAME: United Learning
ADDRESS: 6633 West Howard St., Niles, IL 60648.
NAME: US Council of International Friendship, Inc.
ADDRESS: Educational Services, 745 Leader Building, Cleveland, OH
44114
PHONE: (216) 861-5542
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Rents 16mm films, Soviet produced, mainly in English
and Spanish. Rents many of the films that can be obtained from the Soviet
Embassy, though delays are common from the Embassy. Has a few feature films
in Russian with English sub titles.
NAME: Video Kontakt
ADDRESS: 42 rue Raymond Marcheron, 92170, Vanves France
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Videocassettes dealing with recent events in
Poland.
NOTE: recorded on PAL, not NTSC system used in U.S. Requires
multistandard VCR to play.
NAME: Video Pal
ADDRESS: 201 Kentlands Blvd., Kentlands Square Shopping Center,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
PHONE: (301) 926-8444
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Language movies for rent
NAME: The Video Project
ADDRESS: 5332 College Ave., Suite 101, Oakland, CA 94618
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Films and videos
NAME: Video Russe
ADDRESS: 60 rue Fonday, 75015 Paris France
TYPE OF MATERIALS: NOTE: Recorded on PAL, not NTSC system
used in U.S.
Requires multistandard VCR to play.
NAME: View Video
ADDRESS: 34 East 23 Street, New York, NY 10010
PHONE: 1-800-843-9843, (212) 674-5550 *FAX* (212) 979-0266
COMMENTS: videos on ice skating, ballet, other performing arts
NAME: Virginia Center for Russ & E. Europe Studies, Univ of
ADDRESS: 233 Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22901
PHONE: (804) 9243033
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Center has extensive lending library.
NAME: Washington, Henry Jackson School of Int'l Studies, Univ of
ADDRESS: Thomson 503DR05, Seattle, WA 98105
PHONE: (206) 5452411
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Collection of videorecordings of speakers on UW campus,
tapes of Radnost Folk Ensemble.
NAME: Wehman Video
ADDRESS: 2366 Eastlake Ave E, Suite 420, Seattle, WA 98102
PHONE: (206) 726-0220
COMMENTS: video on Russian art treasures, "Moscow Treasures and
Traditions:
A Video Exploration of Russian Art and its Rich History"
NAME: What One Child Can Do, Educational Film and Video Project
ADDRESS: 1529 Josephine St., Berkeley, CA 94703
PHONE: (415) 8491649
TYPE OF MATERIALS: VHS/Beta, $49.95. Hosted by John Denver,
records a first time meeting between American and Soviet children in the
USSR.
NAME: WNET
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2284, S. Burlington, VT 05407.
NAME: Zenger Video (Division of Social Studies School Service)
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 802, Culver City, CA 90232
PHONE: (800) 4214246; in CA (213) 8392436
TYPE OF MATERIALS: Sells videotapes. A few feature films (on video) on historical,
political, and cultural topics, primarily for use on secondary level.