Major statistical handbooks from the rest of Eastern Europe are acquired. About 1400 books and 165 serials. About 3100 books and 80 serials. Law About 2400 books and 40 serials on law crime and the police. The collection of material on Soviet education began intensively in the early 1970s.
Earlier holdings are patchy.
Soviet era school textbooks and school syllabuses are collected. Several hundred Russian monographs on Soviet education published in the 1950s and 1960s were presented on permanent loan by the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR in 1990. About 3000 book and 110 serial titles. Geography and travel About 2000 books and 50 serials on geography, particularly Soviet urban development, human geography, tourism, regional planning and the environment. Generally popular travel books are not acquired, although some maps, atlases and guide books are collected.