Slavic and Russian books and libraries
Subtitle: occasional essays and notes
By: Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis, Jr. ; with an introduction by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker.
Contributors: Davis, Robert H., 1961-
Publisher: Ross Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780883540442
Subjects: New York Public Library; Bibliography -- Slavic countries; Bibliography -- Russia; Bibliography -- Russia (Federation); Libraries -- Russia (Federation) -- History; Library resources -- New York (State) -- New York; Slavic countries -- Library resources; Russia -- Library resources; Russia (Federation) -- Library resources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 19th-century Russian Orthodox Church journals : structure and access; title: The Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich and his library; title: Witness to the crime : two little-known photographic sources relating to the sale and destruction of antiquities in Soviet Russia during the 1920s; title: Zastroika, perestroika, rasstroika, dostroika and us; title: Former Soviet Republics (with Dennis Kimmage); title: Indispensable to students in the Slavic field : a first history of the development of the Slavic, Baltic, and East European collections of the Research Libraries, the New York Public Library; title: Russian occult journalism of the early 20th century and emigration; title: The rise and decline of book studies in the Soviet Union; title: A Soviet research library remembered; title: The history of Slavic and East European collections in the United States during the interwar period : an agenda for research; title: Afterword : collecting Slavica at the New York Public Library; title: "Old cadres" in practical service of the "book and revolution" : the case of A.Iu. Malein (1869-1938); title: A friendship destroyed : the hitherto unpublished correspondence (1917-21) of the academicians Rozhdestvenskie with the expatriate A.V. Golʹstein; title: L.B. Khavkina (1871-1949), American library ideas in Russia and the development of Soviet librarianship; title: N.M. Lisovskii as bibliographer; title: Kostʹ Dovhan (1902-?) on the social influence of the book; title: Russian book arts on the eve of the First World War : the New York Public Library collections; title: A note on Konstantin Somov's erotic book illustration; title: Napoleon in Eastern European masterworks on paper; title: Envoys and treasures : illustrations for the tsars.