Available materials include numerous directories, handbooks, journals, newspapers, bibliographies, and guides to the literature. This is a textbook meant for university students, and should therefore be accessible for a competent non-native speaker of Russian with a background in the Social Sciences.
Coverage is from the Middle Ages to the present day.
This is a short, but comprehensive introduction to Russian politics, with similar scope to the Russian textbook mentioned above. The book's main focus is, however, current political history, beginning with Gorbachev's political and economic reforms. Greenwoood Press, 1994. Several recently-published books focus on the national and ideological conflicts which have arisen since the fall of the Soviet Empire. Nation-building in Difficult Times discusses conflict and conflict management in Russian foreign, ethnic, and political relations, both historically and as a result of recent changes.