There are several collection highlights that will make your visit here worthwhile. These specific items are representative of the richness of the collections here at Illinois. General descriptions of our holdings in each of the countries of our area follow. Russia and the former Soviet Union. The Library holds approximately 190,700 volumes in the languages of the former Soviet Union, plus another 58,465 or so volumes on Russia and the former USSR in other languages.
Coverage is good in all areas of the humanities and social sciences.
The Library has about 99,818 additional volumes of Russian and Ukrainian titles in microform, including most serials of importance that are not available in the original. There are also long runs on microfilm of some 155 newspapers in Russian, Ukrainian, and Estonian, including both pre-Revolutionary and Soviet titles. Czech and Slovak Republics. Total holdings come to about 48,344 volumes. Illinois has nearly all of the major Czech and Slovak scholarly periodicals in history, literature, the social sciences, philosophy, and art, with good coverage of religion as well.