Reference

1. Bibliographies and biographical collections
2. Historiography
3. Archival guides

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Bibliographies and Biographical Collections

Sources in English:

1. Brickman, William W., ed. Russian and Soviet Education, 1731-1989: A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography (N.Y.: Garland, 1992).
2. Gillispie, Charles C., ed. Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970-1980).
3. Goodwin, Jack, ed. Technology and Culture. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1964--).
4. Neu, John, ed. Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (Philadelphia: HSS Publications Office).
5. Neu, John, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1966-1975. A Bibliography of the History of Science, Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 91-100. Vol. 1: Personalities and Institutions. Vol. 2: Subjects, periods, and civilizations (London: Mansell, 1980).
6. Neu, John, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1976-1985. A Bibliography of the History of Science, Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 101-110, 2 vols. (London: Mansell, 1989-90).
7. Sokolovskaia, Z. "Importance of Scientific Biographies Published by USSR Academy of Sciences for Studying the History of Engineering and Natural Sciences," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 139-43.
8. Whitrow, Magda, ed. Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1965. A Bibliography of the History of Science, Formed from Isis Current Bibliographies 1-90. Vol. 1: Personalities, A-J. Vol. 2: Personalities, K-Z, and Institutions. Vol. 3: Subjects (London: Mansell, 1971-1976).

Sources in Russian:

1. Aizenshtat, L.M., et al., eds. Moskovskii universitet za 225 let: Ukazatel' literatury (Moscow: MGU, 1983).
2. Fedorov, A.S., ed. Istoriia tekhniki: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1976-1980 (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
3. Istoriia estestvoznaniia: Literatura, opublikovannaia v SSSR (Moscow: AN SSSR/Nauka, 1949--).
4. Istoriia tekhniki: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' (Moscow: AN SSSR/Nauka, 1950--).
5. Materialy dlia biograficheskogo slovaria deistvitel'nykh chlenov Akademii nauk, 1889-1914 (Petrograd, 1915).
6. Materialy k biobibliografii uchenykh SSSR (Moscow: Nauka).
7. Sokolovskaia, Z.K. 400 biografii uchenykh: O serii "Nauchno-biograficheskaia literatura," 1959-1986: Biobibliograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
8. Turkevich, John. Soviet Men of Science: Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963).
9. Zvorykin, A.A., ed. Biograficheskii slovar' deiatelei estestvoznaniia i tekhniki 2 vols. (Moscow: BSE, 1958-1959).

Other bibliographies:

1. Basic Reference Sources: Russian History and Literature (UC Berkeley Library, Slavic Collection)
2. Guide to Russian Reference Works by Wojciech Zalewski (Stanford University Libraries)

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Historiography

Sources in English:

1. Gerovitch, Slava. "Perestroika of the History of Technology and Science in the USSR: Changes in the Discourse," Technology and Culture 37:1 (January 1996): 102-34.
2. Gerovitch, Slava. "Writing History in the Present Tense: Cold War-era Discursive Strategies of Soviet Historians of Science and Technology," in Christopher Simpson, ed., Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War (New York: The New Press, 1998), pp. 189-228. Abstract
3. Gouzevitch, Irina. "The History of Technology in Today's Russia," SHOT Newsletter No. 72 (June 1996): 13-16.
4. Graham, Loren R. "The Socio-Political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History of Science," Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 705-22.
5. Gvozdetskii, V. "Problems of History of Science and Engineeering in the Work of I. Ya. Konfederatov (1902-1975)," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 113-17.
6. The History of Science: Soviet Research, 2 vols. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1985).
7. Joravsky, David. "Soviet Views on the History of Science," Isis 46 (1955): 3-13.
8. Lubrano, Linda. Soviet Sociology of Science (Columbus, Ohio: AAASS, 1976).
9. Rabkin, Yakov. "Naukovedenie: The Study of Scientific Research in the Soviet Union," Minerva 14 (1976): 61-78.
10. Solomon, Susan Gross. "Reflections on Western Studies of Soviet Science," in Linda Lubrano and Susan Gross Solomon, eds., The Social Context of Soviet Science (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 1-29.
11. Ustinov, N.D., ed. Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology: Development and Organization of Research into the History of Science and Technology (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
12. Voronkov, Yuri. "Editorial: Some Observations on the History of Technology in the USSR," History and Technology 8:2 (1992): 81-85.
13. Vucinich, Alexander. "Soviet Marxism and the History of Science," The Russian Review 41 (1982): 123-42.

Sources in Russian:

1. Bastrakova, M. S. "Iz istorii razvitiia istoriko-nauchnykh issledovanii," VIET 61-63 (1978): 34-47.
2. Ilizarov, S.S. "IIET v 1953 godu," VIET 3 (1993): 88-116.
3. Ilizarov, S.S. Materialy k istoriografii istorii nauki i tekhniki: Khronika, 1917-1988 (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
4. Kirsanov, V. S. "Vozvratit'sia k istokam? Zametki ob Institute Istorii Nauki i Tekhniki AN SSSR, 1932-1938 gg.," VIET 1 (1994): 3-19.
5. Kuzakov, V.K. Otechnestvennaia istoriografiia istorii nauki v Rossii, X-XVII vv. (Moscow: Nauka, 1991).
6. Lukina, T.A. Boris Evgen'evich Raikov (Leningrad, 1970).
7. Mondzhili [Mongili], A. "Prikliucheniia naukovedeniia: sluchai Instituta istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki," VIET 1 (1995): 116-37 (a summary of A. Mongili, "Sociologues et sociologie des sciences en U.R.S.S.: Le cas de l'Institut d'Histoire des Sciences Naturelles et de la Technologie de Moscou." Thèse de Doctorat en sociologie [Paris, 1993]).
8. Zubov, V.P. Istoriografiia estestvennykh nauk v Rossii (XVIII v.-pervaia polovina XIX v.) (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1956).

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Archival Guides

Sources in English:

1. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. "Archival Rossica/Sovietica Abroad: Provenance or Pertinence, Bibliographic and Descriptive Needs," Cahiers du Monde russe et sovietique XXXIV (3) (juillet-septembre 1993): 431-80.
2. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
3. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, ed. Archives in Russia, 1993: A Brief Directory (Washington: International Research and Exchanges Board, 1993).
4. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. A Handbook for Archival Research in the USSR (Washington, D.C.: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1989).
5. Karasik, Theodore William. The Post-Soviet Archives: Organization, Access and Declassification (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1993).

Sources in Russian:

1. Arkhiv Akademii nauk SSSR. Obozrenie arkhivnykh materialov (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1933-).
2. Burds, Jeffrey, and S.V. Mironenko, eds. Fondy Gosudarstvennogo Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po istorii RSFSR (Moscow, 1994).
3. Burds, Jeffrey, et al., eds. Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Ekonomiki: Putevoditel', 2 vols. (Moscow, 1994).
4. Deiateli russkoi nauki XIX-pervoi chetverti XX vekov: Obzor literatury i istochnikov (St. Petersburg: AN SSSR, 1991).
5. Dokumenty GAF SSSR v bibliotekakh, muzeiakh i nauchno-otraslevykh arkhivakh: Spravochnik (Moscow: Mysl', 1991).
6. Dremina, G.A. Tsentral'nye gosudarstvennye arkhivy SSSR 1945-1970 gg.: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow, 1977).
7. Filippov, N.G. Nauchno-technicheskie obshchestva Rossii, 1866-1917 (Moscow: MGIAI, 1975).
8. Filippov, N.G. Nauchno-technicheskie obshchestva SSSR, 2 vols. (Moscow: MGIAI, 1977-1981).
9. Freeze, Gregory L., and S.V. Mironenko, eds. Fondy Gosudarstvennogo Arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po istorii Rossii XIX-nachala XX vv. (Moscow, 1994).
10. Getty, J. Arch, and V.P. Kozlov. Rossiiskii Tsentr Khraneniia i Izucheniia Dokumentov Noveishei Istorii (RTSKhIDNI): Kratkii putevoditel': fondy i kollektsii, sobrannye Tsentralnym partiinym arkhivom (Moscow: Blagovest, 1993).
11. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy RSFSR: Spravochnik-putevoditel' (Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossia, 1980).
12. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy SSSR: Spravochnik, 2 vols. (Moscow: Mysl', 1989).
13. Korneev, V.E. Arkhivy VKP(b), 1926-1941 gg.: uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI, 1981).
14. Lichnye fondy v gosudarstvennykh khranilishchakh SSSR: Ukazatel', 2 vols. (Moscow: Glavnoe Arkhivnoe upravlenie, 1962-63).
15. Samoshenko, V.N. Istoricheskie arkhivy dorevolutsionnoi Rossii: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI, 1986).
16. Stepanskii, A.D. Istoriia nauchnykh uchrezhdenii i organizatsii dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow: MGIAI, 1987).
17. Strekopytov, S.P. Gosudarstvennoe rukovodstvo naukoi v SSSR, 1936-1958: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: RGGU, 1991).
18. Strekopytov, S.P. Organy gosudarstvennogo rukovodstva naukoi i nauchnymi uchrezhdeniiami-fondoobrazovateliami Gosudarstvennogo arkhivnogo fonda SSSR, 1917-1936: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI, 1987).
19. Strekopytov, S.P. Vysshii Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva i sovetskaia nauka, 1917-1932: Uchebnoe posobie (Moscow: MGIAI, 1990).
20. Tsentral'nyi Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov SSSR: Putevoditel', vol. 1 (Moscow, 1991).

Other bibliographies:

1. Published collections of Soviet archival documents
2. Russian Archive Series publications

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