Russian History

Manuscripts

MSS 012 – World War 1914-1918 photograph collection
Black and white photographic record of Australian Infantry Forces during and after World War I.

Box 3/Folder 3: B1738 - The Russian Church seen from the Garden of Gethsemane, Palestine, 23rd January 1918; Box 4/Folder 4 - Russian Sap, across No Man's Land, blown on morning of Messines

MSS 021 – Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn
Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn (1869-1952) was a British soldier, scholar and writer, who served in Asia, India, Mesopotamia, South Africa, Gallipoli and Europe.  He was one of three signatories on the plan for the evacuation of the Allied army from the Gallipoli peninsula.  His papers include correspondence, typescripts, carbon-copies and manuscripts of articles, short-stories, chapters of novels, sketches and notes for proposed books.

Box 2/Folder 30 includes a handwritten marriage trial (dated 1825) found on the body of a dead Russian soldier in the Crimea

MSS 126 – Papers of the Doug Robertson Maritime and Naval History Collection
A comprehensive collection of notebooks, research notes, newspaper clippings and plans – together with an extended sequence of 70,000 photographs and slides - compiled and collected by Australian ship expert and naval historian, Doug Robertson (1923-1984). 

Box 22/Folder 110 - Notebook entitled 'Russia: armed merchant cruisers', c1868-1924; Box 23/Folder 119 - Turkish/Russian/Japanese/Royal Navy AMC research material; Box 24/Folder 124 Notebook entitled 'Russia', c.1854-1948; Box 28/Folder 155 - Lists of ships, notes and newspaper clippings entitled 'Rome', 'Roumania', 'Russia', 'Russia (Czarist)'; Box 43/Folder 251 - Promotional material, notes and newspaper clippings on HMCS Provider and USSR, 1972

MSS 145 – Papers of General Sir Cecil James East
General Sir Cecil James East was a senior British Army Officer (1837-1908) who served in the Crimean War and was present at the siege and fall of Sevastopol.  The collection comprises three bound manuscript journals covering East's military career from 1854-1898, including accounts of service in the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny and his career as a staff officer in India.

Box 1/Folder 1: Journal, 4 April 1854-24 May 1872

MSS 190 – Papers of Michael Richardson
Journalist and photographer, Michael Richardson was the Southeast Asia correspondent for The Age newspaper in the 1970s, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore until 2009.  His archive includes important primary sources on East Timor’s political history and conflict, including photographs of the Declaration of Independence on 28 November 1975.

Box 12/Folder 78 - East Timor – Oil funds (1999-2008), including articles: ‘Russia needs a stabilisation fund’, 3p.; ‘Russia pondering ways of spending oil revenues’, 3p.


Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871) was a senior British Army Officer who fought with General Arthur Wellesley at the Battle of the Douro (1809), and was present at the siege and Battle of Salamanca.  After the Battle of Vitoria in 1813 he became Commanding Engineer on Lord Wellington's staff during the occupation in France from 1815 to 1818.  Burgoyne later superintended the disembarkation of the British Army on the Crimean Peninsula, serving in effect as the principal engineer adviser to the English commander during the first part of the siege of Sevastopol.  In 1858 he was present at the second interment of Napoleon I as Queen Victoria's representative.

Box 1/Folder 1: Crimean correspondence of General Sir John Burgoyne, 4 September to 31 December 1854, including letter together with a leather button taken off the great coat of a Russian soldier on the Inkerman field

Box 1/Folder 2: Crimean correspondence of General Sir John Burgoyne, 1 January to 30 March 1855, together with an 1868 copy of order given by Lord Raglan to Lord Lucan during the Charge of the Light Brigade at Battle of Balaclava (1854)

MSS 274 – Royal Military College lecture notes
Scrapbooks containing lecture notes used at the Royal Military College, Duntroon (unidentified author), c1920s-1930s

Box 1/Folder 1 – Scrapbook containing tipped-in and loose typescript and roneoed lecture notes, 1924-1925, including:  'Condensed precis of observations on Russian Army during Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)' with a map

MSS 321 – Papers of Frank Cain
Historian and former academic at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, specialising in intelligence, defence and foreign policy history and strategic studies, including the Cold War.  Includes source materials for Cain’s ASIO: an unofficial history (Richmond, Vic: Spectrum, 1994) and Economic statecraft during the Cold War: European responses to the US trade embargo (London: Routledge, 2007).

Box 1/Folder 2 ­– including copied papers on establishment of ASIO, recruitment of spies from Australian military forces, Cabinet memo on long range weapons projects, Combe-Ivanov report documents (c1983), relating to the Australian-Soviet spy scandal

Box 1/Folder 3 – including Frank Cain, ‘Missiles and Mistrust: US Intelligence Responses to British and Australian Missile Research’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘ASIO and the Australian Labour Movement – An Historical Perspective’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘An Aspect of Post-War Australian Relations with the UK and the US: Missiles, Spies and Disharmony’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘An Administrative History of Political Surveillance in Australia 1916-1983’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘From Alliance to Enmity: USA Reaction to Australian Missile Technology’ (1986); Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, Conference on Security and Intelligence Needs for the 1990s: A Canadian Perspective (1989)

Box 1/Folder 4 – including clippings documenting the Petrov affair

Box 3/Folder 12 – ‘W17’= copied National Archives (United States) and National Archives of Australia records relating to CoCoM (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) on export of computers and advanced technology, including sale of cryogenics, superconductors, Trident aeroplanes, Sigma-5 computer systems, microwave electronics etc

Box 13/Folder 59 –  file ‘Moscow Letters’ (1952) and ‘Analysis of Moscow letters etc’, ie. translations of these relating to the Petrov affair, including detailed intelligence reports in English and Russian and copies of other documents associated with the scandal [material is very evocative of USSR-Australia Cold War tensions at the time]

MSS 355 – Papers of John McCarthy
Comprising photocopies of Australian government documents relating to World War II and research material for various publications by the historian and academic John McCarthy.

Box 13/Folder 68 - Photocopies of Australian government documents: Russia, November 1941-February 1946

MSS 371 – Papers of Brian Beddie
Papers and reference material assembled by Professor Brian Beddie relating to Australian defence policy and administration, including coverage of the Cold War (1985-1991).  A former diplomat, and academic specialising in international relations, Beddie was co-founder of the Politics Department at ANU, and foundation Professor in Government in the Faculty of Military Studies, Duntroon.

Including: Boxes 1-11: Foreign Affairs and Trade round-up, 1987-1989; Boxes 12-22 – Defence news summary, 1982-1991; Box 31/Folders 4-5 - Defence Committee minutes 1944-1951, CRSA2031

MSS 374 – Papers of Peter Hastings
Prominent Australian journalist Peter Hastings (1920-1990) was editor of the Bulletin (1962-64), and foreign affairs writer for the Australian (1966-70) and the Sydney Morning Herald (1970-74, 1976-90).

Box 12/Series 6/Folders 11-13 - press clippings on foreign relations and defence

Box 19/Series 10/Folders 1-2 - intelligence activities: press articles (including articles by Peter Hastings), papers, journals (topics: Australian Cryptographic Organisation, Special Wireless Unit, World War 2 intelligence activities, Defence Signals Division, ASIS, SIGINT; Folder 3 – DSD book: Material relating to intelligence activities and proposal for history of Australian signal intelligence during World War II including: correspondence with DSD, book outline, reference material; Folder 4 - Intelligence activities: Central Bureau intercept, Des Ball

Box 23/Series 13/Folder 1 – source material on nuclear weapons including press clippings, news service reports, and excerpts from published material.

Rare books

Byzantium

Civilization on trial
Arnold Toynbee 1889-1975
Civilization; History -- Philosophy; East and West -- Asian influences -- Oriental influences -- Western influences – Philosophy -- History -- --My view of -- --Present point in -- --Hoes repeat itself? -- Graeco-Roman civilization -- Unification of the world of change in historical perspective -- Dwarfing of Europe -- International outlook -- Civilization on trial -- Russia's Byzantine heritage -- Islam, the West, and the future -- Encounters between civilizations -- Christianity and civilization -- Meaning of history for the soul
London : Oxford University Press, 1948
vii, 263 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (CB19 .T6)

Middle Ages

An historical geography of Europe
W. Gordon East (William Gordon), 1902-
Historical geography; Europe -- History
Mediterranean lands of the Roman Empire -- European frontier regions of the Roman Empire -- Barbarian invasions and settlement -- Rural settlement and agriculture in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages -- Rural settlement and agriculture in western and central Europe in the middle ages -- Political geography of Europe -- --Early state-building in western and central Europe -- --Byzantine Empire -- --Europe in the Middle Ages -- --Russian state -- --Political unification of France -- --Creation of Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands -- --Political unification of the German Empire -- --Sicily -- Economic geography of Europe -- --Mediterranean region of the Middle Ages -- --Baltic and North Seas in the Middle Ages -- --Western Europe during the early oceanic phase -- --Danube route-way -- --Europe in the eighteenth century -- --Europe in the Railway Age
London : Methuen, 1935
xx, 480 p. : ill., maps, tables
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D21.5 .E3 1935)

16th Century

Yermak's campaign in Siberia : a selection of documents
Terence Armstrong
Includes index; Includes index -- Muscovy's eastern frontier in the 16th century -- Stroganovs -- Cossacks, Yermark, and his band -- Yermark as folk-hero -- Stroganov chronicle -- Yesipov chronicle -- Remezov chronicle -- Royal charters
London : Hakluyt Society, 1975
x, 315 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates : ill
Available at Canberra Special Collection (G161 .H2 2d ser. no. 146)
17th Century

The age of expansion : Europe and the world, 1559-1660
H. R. Trevor-Roper (Hugh Redwald), 1914- ; Henry Kamen
Europe -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Pictorial works
Contents: Introduction: the baroque century, by H. Trevor-Roper.--Spain's domination, by H. Kamen.--The divided Netherlands, by C. Wilson.--Peace in central Europe, by C. Clasen.--Thirty Years' War, by H. G. Koenigsberger.--France: monarchy and people, by M. Prestwich.--Britain transformed, by G. E. Aylmer.--Slav nations, by H. Willetts.--Empires of Islam, by P. Avery--The Oriental world, by I. Morris.--Select bibliography (p. 346-347) -- Baroque century -- Spain's dominion -- --Problems and policies of a world power -- Divided Netherlands -- --Rebellion, liberty and nationhood -- Peace in central europe -- --Empire before 1618 -- Thirty year's war -- --European civil war -- France -- --Monarchy and people -- ----From Henri III to Louis XIV -- Britain transformed -- --Crown, conscience and commonwealth -- Slav nations -- --Poland and the evolution of Russia -- Empires of Islam -- --Muslim India, Persia and Turkey -- Oriental world -- --Ming China and the unification of Japan
New York : McGraw-Hill
1968
360 p. : ill., maps, ports. (all part col.) ; 35 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D228 .T7 1968)

18th Century

Explorations of Kamchatka, North Pacific scimitar : report of a journey made to explore eastern Siberia in 1735-1741, by order of the Russian Imperial Government
Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov 1713-1755
Translation of Opisanie zemli Kamchatki; Translation of Opisanie zemli Kamchatki -- America -- Birds -- Bolshaia River -- Church -- Cossacks -- Dogs and sleds -- Feasts and ceremonies -- Fish -- Food -- Fox -- Iasak -- Koriaks, reindeer (nomadic) -- Kurile natives -- Lower Kamchatka ostrog -- Rebellions -- Sable -- Sea of Okhotsk -- Sea otter -- Seal -- Trade
Portland : Oregon Historical Society, 1972
xxxiii, 375 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK771.K2 K813 1972)

Memoirs of the life of Prince Potemkin : comprehending original anecdotes of Catharine the Second, and of the Russian court
Gregory Alexandrowitz Potemkin 1739-1791
London : Henry Colburn, 1812
256 p. : port
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK52.5 .P6 A3 1812)

History of the campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski, Field-Marshal-General in the service of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias : with a preliminary sketch of his private life and character
Johann Friedrich Anthing 1753-1805
Signatures: v. 1. []p1s, a-bp8s, cp2s, B-Op8s, Pp5s -- v. 2. []p1s, B-Zp8s, Aap8s, ap7s; "Printed by T. Burton"--Colophon; Translated from German; Translated from German -- VOLUME ONE -- Seven years with with Prussians -- War with confederates of Poland -- First war against Turks -- Pugatschew pursued and made prisoner -- Operations in Cuban and Crimea -- Tartars of Nogay swear obedience to Russia -- VOLUME TWO -- Suworow named general-in-chief -- Command of fleet on Black Sea -- Jassy, from Petersburg -- Berlat -- Seraskier, at Brakilow -- Orders to take Ismail -- Frontiers of Sweden -- Last campaign in Poland, and downfall of kingdom -- Siege of Warsaw -- Brzescie -- Prince Repnin -- Derselden -- General's reconnoitre fortifications of Praga -- Capitulation of Warsaw -- Army -- Fersen pursues Poles -- Empress
London : Printed for J. Wright, 1799
2 v. ([ii], xxxvi, 218; 366, 15 p.) : port
Available at Canberra Special Collection (special 200468 vol.1)

A chronological history of the European States, with their discoveries and settlements, from the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 to the close of the year 1792
Charles Mayo 1750-1829
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789
Bath : G.G. and J. Robinson and J. Faulder, 1793
1 v. (various pagings) ; 40 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D244 .M3)

The military history of Europe, &c. from the commencement of the war with Spain in 1739, to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 : containing all the transactions of that war both by sea and land : also comprehending a concise and impartial history of the rebellion in Scotland
William Biggs 1755-1827
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748; Europe -- History, Military -- 18th century, including Russia and Peter I
London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1756
440 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D292 .B4 1756)

Bering's voyages : whither and why
Raymond H. Fisher (Raymond Henry), 1907-
Bering, Vitus Jonassen; Bering's Expedition (1725-1730); Bering's Expedition (1733-1743); Voyages and travels -- 1951-1980 -- 1981-
Admiralty College -- America -- --In Bering's proposal of 30 April 1730 -- --Destination of both Bering voyages -- American expedition -- --Selection of route for -- --Objectives -- ----As viewed by scholars -- ----Scholars' views questioned and appraised -- Amur River -- Bering, Vitus J. -- --Concept of northeast Asia -- Bering's first voyage -- --Why northward route -- --Accounts of -- --Purpose -- ----Traditional view of -- Chirikov, Aleksei I. -- Chukchi -- Chukotka -- Chukotsk Peninsula -- City of European possession -- Dezhnev, Semen I. -- Eastward expansion -- --Easternmost Siberia -- Evreinov, Ivan M. -- --Expedition to Kamchatka -- Furs -- --Factor in Bering's two voyages -- Golder, Frank A. -- Grekov, Vadim I. -- Iakutsk -- Isthmus between Asia and America -- Juan de Gama Land -- Kamchatka -- Kirilov, Ivan K. -- Kolyma (Kovyma) River -- Kurile Islands -- "Land which goes to the north" -- Lebedev, Dmitrii M. -- Maps -- --Homann's -- ----Kamchatka 1725 -- --Remezov's -- Muller, Gerhard F. -- North Pacific -- Okhotsk -- Peter the Great -- --Belief in proximity of America to Kamchatka -- --Instructions to Bering -- Polevoi, Boris P. -- Report of 28 December 1732, Senate's -- St. Petersburg -- Second Kamchatka Expedition -- Shalatskii promontory -- Siberia -- --Conquest in -- Trade -- Ukazes of the Senate -- --2 May 1732 -- Witsen, Nicolaas C.
London : Hurst, c1977
xiii, 217 p. : maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (G296 .B4 1977)

A tour up the straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople : with the leading events in the present war between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the commencement of the year 1789
David Sutherland
Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792; Mediterranean Sea -- Description and travel
London : D. Sutherland, 1790
xlvii, 372 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DR555.7 .S9 1790)
19th Century

War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807)

Brief remarks on the character and composition of the of the Russian army, and a sketch of the campaigns in Poland in the years 1806 and 1807
Robert Thomas Wilson Sir, 1777-1849.
Cossacks -- Basquiers -- Russian and French armies in Poland -- Prussian operations
London : Printed by C. Roworth : and sold by T. Egerton, 1810
4o xxix, [1], 27 p. : fold. col. map, 7 col. plans (1 fold.)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK53 .W54 1810)

Patriotic War (1812)

A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia : embellished with plans on the Battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz
Eugene Labaume 1783-1849
London : Samuel Leigh, 1816
269 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DC235 .L32)

History of the expedition to Russia, undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the year 1812
Philippe-Paul Segur 1780-1873
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia -- Campaigns -- Russian S.F.S.R -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union
Translation of: Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee pendant l'annee 1812
London : Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel and Richter, 1825
2v. bound as 1 : map (fold) ports
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DC235 .S455)

Crimean War (1853-1856)

Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol, with a description and remarks
M. A. Biddulph
"The sketches, by Captain M.A. Biddulph, R.A."
London : Chapman and Hall, 1858
1 v. : ill. (fold.) 34 cm
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio DK 215.7 .B5 1858)

Pictorial history of the Russian war, 1854-56
George Dodd 1808-1881
Includes index; Written by George Dodd. Preface signed G.D; Spine title: Chambers's Russian war
Edinburgh : Chambers, 1856
x, 584 p., [11] leaves of plates, some folded : ill., maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK214 .D62 1856)

The history of the war with Russia : giving full details of the operations of the allied armies
Henry Tyrrell
London : London Printing and Publishing Co., 1860?
3 v. bound in 1 : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK214 .T9 1860)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)

Sketch map to illustrate the Russo-Turkish campaign in Bulgaria, 1877-78 large scale inset maps of Pleyna, Loytcha, Goyni Dubnik, shewing [sic] positions of troop, etc. with notes and references
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 -- Maps
Series: Whitehall series of military maps
London : Forster Groom Military Publishers, 1912
11p..+ 1 map (folded)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (plancab DR573 .S54 1912)

Russian Imperialism

The Russian advance
Albert J. Beveridge (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927
Russia on the Pacific -- Russian empire-building in Manchuria -- Other methods of Russian advance -- Types of civil agents of the Russian advance -- Overlords of the Czar's advancing power in the Far East -- Results of Russian railway advance -- Manchurian railway results and methods -- Diplomatic game for an empire -- How Russia at last reached the unfrozen sea -- Collision of Russia's advance with Japan -- Soldier of the Russian advance and the soldier of Japan -- Russian advance paralleled by the German advance -- Chapter of digression: American needs in the Orient -- Second chapter of digression: American progress in the Far East -- Siberia: the highway of Russian advance -- High and low water marks of Siberian progress -- Red day of Blagovestchensk -- Russian capital and labor -- Russian working-man -- Labor laws of Russia -- Independent peasant artisan -- February 19, 1861, the birthday of Russian industrial freedom -- Holy Russia, the orthodox nation -- Priest, people, and church -- Russian national ideals -- Russian points of view
New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903
iii, 485 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK68 .B46 1903)

A voyage to the North Pacific
John D'Wolf 1779-1872
Northwest coast of North America; Alaska -- Description and travel; Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Originally published 1861 by Welch, Bigelow and Co., Cambridge; Limited edition of 650 numbered copies; Limited edition of 650 numbered copies -- John D'Wolf -- Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov (Baron Von Resanoff) -- Juno, sailing ship -- Russian fur trade -- Siberia -- North West coat of America -- --Sitcha Indians -- --Alashka (Alaska) -- Russia in the 19th century -- --Moscow -- --St. Petersburg -- Baltic region
Fairfield, Wash : Ye Galleon Press, 1968
147 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (F851 .D85 1968)

On the ambitious projects of Russia in regard to North West America, with particular reference to New Albion & New California
Russian imperialism in 18th century -- Russian interest in North West Coast of America -- --Sitka -- --Russian America Company -- --Fort Ross -- --Mission of St. Clara -- Otto von Kolzebue
California? : Book Club of California, 1955
79 p. : map ; 26 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (F864 .O6 1955)

Russian culture

Lyrics from Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1799-1837; R. H Morrison (Robert Hay), 1915-
Russian and English; Russian and English -- Night -- Three Springs -- Storm-cloud -- I loved you -- Coach of life -- Beneath the Azure skies -- I know what war is -- To friends -- Chattering with song unending -- Antiar -- Elegy -- 19 October -- I thought my heart was stilled -- Gold and the sword -- Last flowers -- Solitude -- On a translation of the Iliad -- I've buried every aspiration -- Grapes -- Unfinished painting -- Land and sea -- Elegy -- My epitaph -- Kazbek Monastery
Melbourne : Meanjin Press, 1951
32 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PG3347.A15 M5 1957)

War and peace : a novel
Leo Tolstoy graf, 1828-1910; Louise Maude 1855-1939.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia -- Fiction; Russia -- History -- Alexander I, 1801-1825 -- Fiction
First published in Moscow 1868-1869 as a six volume novel
Series: World's classics ; 233
London : Oxford University Press, 1941
3 v. in 1 : maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PG3366 .V6)

Muzei L.N. Tolstogo v Moskve
A. C Droc'is
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Museums; Museums -- Soviet Union
Moskva : Izdatel'stvo Planeta, 1987
111 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PG3370 .M87 1987)

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky : an essay in the old criticism
George Steiner 1929-
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881; Epic literature
Arnold, Matthew -- Balzac, Honore de -- Berdiaev, N.A. -- Bible -- Christ -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor -- Conrad, Joseph -- Dante Alighieri -- Dickens, Charles -- Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich -- --Brothers Karamazov -- --Crime and punishment -- --Idiot -- --Letters from the underworld -- --Possessed -- --Raw youth -- Flaubert, Gustave -- --Madame Bovary -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -- Gogol, Nicholas -- Gorky, Maxim -- --Reminiscences of Tolstoy -- Gothicism -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Homer -- --Iliad -- --Odyssey -- Hugo, Victor -- James, Henry -- Joyce, James -- Lawrence, David Herbert -- Mann, Thomas -- Marxism -- Melville, Herman -- Milton, John -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Poe, Edgar Allan -- Proust, Marcel -- Pushkin, Alexander -- Racine, Jean-Baptiste -- Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von -- Shakespeare, William -- --King Lear -- Tolstoy, Count Lyov Nikolaevich -- --Anna Karenina -- --Childhood, boyhood and youth -- --Resurrection -- --War and peace -- Tugeniev, Ivan -- Zola, Emile
New York : Vintage, 1961
354, xiv p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PG3410 .S8 1961)

20th Century

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

An outline of the Russo-Japanese war 1904, 1905
Charles Ross 1864-
London : Macmillan and co., limited, 1912-
v : fold. maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DS 517 .R7 1912)

Atlas pour servir à l'étude de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise
Paris : Librairie d'Etudes, Between 1906 and 1926?
17 maps in folder
Available at Canberra Special Collection (efolio DS517 .A8)

Notes upon Russian artillery tactics in the war of 1904-5 with conclusions drawn therefrom
W. von Witzleben
"Russian artillery tactics" translated from the Russian "Artillery journal." "Russo-Japanese war" translated from the "Revue de deux mondes."
London : General Staff, War Office, 1906-1908
67, 23, 20, 16 p. : 4 folded maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio DK 53 .G4 1907)

Soviet Union (1922-1991)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union : 25th Congress 1976 [clippings]
197-?
1 v. (various pagings)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (JN6598 .C65 1970)

For building new relations in the Asia-Pacific region : speech by Mikhail Gorbachev at Krasnoyarsk, September 16, 1988.
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev 1931-
Full text of the foreign policy section of the speech made by Mikhail Gorbachev when visiting Eastern Siberia in 1988. The name of the Soviet news agency TASS is printed at the end of the publication.
New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1988
19 p. ; 18 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK66 .G69 1988)

God's fifth column : a biography of the age, 1890-1940
William Gerhardie 1895-1977; Michael Holroyd
Including: Alexander III, Tsar -- Chekhov, Anton -- Churchill, Winston -- Class Society -- Curzon, George Nathaniel -- Entente Cordiale -- Fascism -- First World War -- --Causes of -- George V, King -- God's Fifth Column -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -- Gorky, Maxim -- Grey, Sir Edward -- --And First World War -- Hitler, Adolf -- --Childhood and youth of -- --As Fuhrer -- Kingsmill, Hugh -- Kipling, Rudyard -- Lawrence, D.H. -- Lenin, Nikolai Illyich -- Lloyd George, David -- --As Prime Minister -- National Socialist Party (Nazis -- Nationalism -- Nicholas II, Tsar -- --First World War and -- --Kaiser and -- Platonism -- Proust, Marcel -- Russian peasantry -- Second World War -- --Preparations for -- Shaw, Bernard -- Tolstoy -- --Lev Nikolaievich -- ----Beliefs of -- ----Wife and family of -- --Countess Sonya Andreievna -- Victoria, Queen -- Wilde, Oscar -- Wilhelm II, Kaiser -- -- Tsars
New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981
360 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D422 .G42 1981)

How Russia smashed its fifth column
L. Harry Gould (Llewellyn Harry)
W. A Wood (William Arnold)Trotsky, Leon 1879-1940; World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists; Subversive activities -- Soviet Union; Communism -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- History -- 1917- -- Fifth column – Quislings
‘With an account also of the fifth column in Australia and other lands’ – Cover
Sydney : Current Book Distributors, 1943?
69 p. ; 22 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK267.3.1942 G68 1943)

The Soviet Union in maps; origin and development
George Goodall
Previous edition published under title Soviet Russia in maps
London : G. Philip, 1954
32p. : col. maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK 27 .G55 1954)

Socialism/Communism

A handbook of Marxism : being a collection of extracts from the writings of Marx, Engels and the greatest of their followers
Karl Marx 1818-1883;  Emile Burns 1889-
Socialism; Communism
Includes extracts from the writings of Lenin and Stalin -- K. Marx and F. Engels. The Communist Manifesto -- K. Marx. Address to the Communist Leageu (1850) -- F. Engels. Introduction to the class struggles in France (1848-1850) -- K. Marx. The class struggles in France (1848-1850) -- K. Marx. Bonaparte -- F. Engels. Germany: revolution and counter-revolution -- K. Marx. The Civil War in France -- F. Engels. Introduction to the Civil War in France -- K. Marx. The Crimean War -- K. Marx. India -- K. Marx. Relations between the Irish and English working classes -- F. Engels. The British Labour Movement -- K. Marx and F. Engels. German Ideology -- F. Engels. Ludwig Feuerback -- K. Marx. Theses on Feuerbach -- F. Engels. Herr Eugen Duhring's revolution in science (anti-duhring) -- F. Engels. The origin of the family, private property and the state -- F. Engels. The housing question -- K. Marx. The poverty of philosophy -- K. Marx. A contribution to ‘the critique of political economy’ -- K. Marx.Capital -- V. I. Lenin. The teachings of Karl Marx -- V. I. Lenin. Our programme -- V. I. Lenin. What is to be done? -- V. I. Lenin. The Revolution of 1905 -- V. I. Lenin. Materialism and empirio-criticism -- Vl. I. Lenin. ‘Left-wing’ Communism: an infantile disorder -- J. Stalin. The international situation, August 1927 -- J. Stalin. Report at seventeenth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1934 -- J. Stalin. Address to the Graduates from the Red Army Academy -- The programme of the Communist International
London : V. Gollancz Ltd, 1935
1087, [1] p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (HB97.5 .M37 1935)

Axing socialism : why and how the East Europeans have begun the task of the 1990s
Wolfgang Kasper
Socialism -- Economic aspects -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-
Series: Economics & management discussion paper; 1991/2;
Campbell, A.C.T. : Dept. of Economics and Management, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1991
35 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (HC244 .K37 1991)

The transition from socialism : state and civil society in the USSR
Chandran Kukathas
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991
Undergraduate text -- Myth of human self-identity: unity of civil and political society in socialist thought -- Communism, civil society and freedom -- Destruction of civil society in Russia -- Mono-organisational Socialism -- Systemic legitimation -- Soviet bureaucracy -- Implosion of collectivist societies and emergence of New Democratic Social Systems in Eastern Europe and USSR -- Ethnonationalism -- Soviet-Vietnamese Alliance
Melbourne Vic. : Longman Cheshire, 1991
227 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (HX313.5 .T72 1991)

Trotsky's analysis of Soviet bureaucratization
David W. Lovell 1956-
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; Communism -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Bureaucracy -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
Series: Flinders politics monographs
London ; Dover, N.H : Croom Helm, c1985
82 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (HX314.Y73 L68 1985)

Spotlight on red spy rings : a factual statement of the evidence proving the existence of an international spy ring
Communism -- Australia; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet -- Australia
Carnegie Vic. : Renown Press, 1954?
47 p. : ports. ; 22 cm
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU 113.5 .S65 S69 1954)

Petrov's 25,000 dollar story exploded : the devastating answer to Petrov's ‘Moscow gold’ story as presented to the Petrov Commission
L. L. Sharkey (Lawrence Louis), 1898-1967; E. F Hill (Edward Fowler), joint author.
Petrov, Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich, 1907-1991; Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978; Communist Party of Australia; Espionage, Soviet -- Australia; Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Newtown : R. S. Thompson, 1955?
28 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU113.5 .S65 S5 1955)

Soviet culture

Soviet painting 32 reproductions of paintings by Soviet masters.
Moscow : State Art Publishers, 1939
32 art prints : col. ; 36 x 28 cm. + 1 booklet [8] p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio ND 1320.6 .S66 1939)

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts 20 reproductions.
Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ imeni A.S. Pushkina.
Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina -- Catalogs; Painting -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Catalogs; Sculpture -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Catalogs; Art museums -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Catalogs -- Galleries and museums -- Museums
Text in English.; In portfolio.; Title from booklet.
Moscow : State Art Publishers, 1939
1939
20 art prints : col. ; 36 x 28 cm. + 1 booklet (20 p.)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio N 3321.A5 P8 1939)

Three Soviet plays
Nikolaĭ Pogodin 1900-1962; Alexander Korneichuk (1905-1972); Alexei Arbuzov (1908-1986)
Russian drama -- Translations into English; Nikolai Pogodin’s plays were recognized in Soviet theatre for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes.  He was known widely as the author of a trilogy about Lenin, and was the first to use Lenin as a character in any theatrical work. The chimes of the Kremlin (1940), the second in the Lenin trilogy, features a scene in which Lenin talks with an old Jewish watchmaker engaged in repairing the Kremlin chimes; Alexander Korniychuk was a five-time Stalin Prize laureate (1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951) and a major proponent of Socialist Realism in Soviet drama. The central character of his Platon Krechet (1934) represents the 'new Soviet intelligentsia', driven by ‘humanism and justice-seeking’; Alexei Arbuzov’s An Irkutsk Story (1960) describes how the shallow and hedonistic life of 25-year-old Valya is transformed by the love of Sergei, foreman of an excavator crew building a dam in Siberia. Following the death of Sergei in a drowning accident, she finds new meaning in joining the construction crew and raising her children.
Contents: Kremlin chimes / by Nikolai Pogodin ; translated by Asya Shoett -- Platon Krechet / by Alexander Korneichuk ; translated by Rose Prokofieva -- It happened in Irkutsk / by Alexei Arbuzov ; translated by Rose Prokofieva
Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House, 198-?
246 p. 
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PG3245 .T73 1980)

Unfinished journey
Yehudi Menuhin 1916-1999
Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999; Violinists -- Biography
Bartok, Bela -- Beethoven, Ludwig van -- --Violin concerto -- Berlin -- Ehrman, Sidney -- Enesco, Georges -- Furtwangler, Wilhelm -- Gazelle, Marcel -- India -- International Music Council -- Israel -- Menuhin, Diana -- Menuhin, Gerard Anthony (son) -- Menuhin, Hephzibah -- --And Yehudi -- Menuhin, Jeremy -- Menuhin, Marutha (mother) -- --Character -- Menuhin, Moshe (father) -- Menuhin, Yaltah (sister) -- Menuhin, Yehudi -- --Forebears -- --Violins -- --And Persinger -- --And Enesco -- --In Rumania -- --Recordings -- --In Berlin -- --In Switzerland -- --Analysis of music -- --And Bartok -- --In Russia (including Dmitri Shostakovich) -- --And Israel -- --And IMC -- --And festivals -- --On conducting -- --Y.H. School -- Moscow -- New York -- Nicholas, Nola -- Oistrakh, David -- Persinger, Louis -- Russia -- Toscanini, Arturo -- Violins -- Yehudi Menuhin School (Stoke d'Abernon)
London : Futura Publications, 1978
508p, [16]p of plates : music, ports
Available at Canberra Special Collection (ML418 .M27 1978)

WWI & WWII

Illustrierte geschichte des Weltkrieges
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works; World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany
Contents: V. 1-2. 1914-1915 -- v. 3-5. 1914-1916 -- v. 6. 1914-1917 -- v. 7-8. 1914-1918 -- v. 9. 1914-1919; Also published in weekly parts; Also published in weekly parts -- VOLUME ONE -- Patriots in German cities -- Battle at Mulhausen -- Fighting at Lagarde -- Belfort -- Battle of Ortelsburg and Gilgenburg -- Kings -- Generals -- Night in Ardennes -- Airforce -- Somme -- Serbia -- Crossing the Maas -- Submarines -- Tsingtao -- Russian Army -- Germans in Brussels -- English prisoners -- Africa -- Emden -- Saarburg -- Toul -- Lille -- Machine guns -- Marne -- Turkish Army -- Warsaw -- Verdun -- Cairo -- Ypes -- Trenches -- Artillery -- VOLUME TWO -- Poland and Russia -- Flanders -- Submarines -- Naval operations -- Field telephones -- Middle East -- Africa -- Great Britain -- Battle of Limanowa -- Emden -- German -- --East Africa -- --South-west Africa -- Suez Canal -- Battles for Soissons -- Dardanelles -- Bakeries -- Mines -- Handgrenades -- Lusitania -- Turkish Army -- Galilee -- Ypern
Stuttgart, Germany : Druck und verlag Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft
1914-1919?
v. : ill., maps, ports
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D 531 .I5 1914)

The great world war : a history
Frank Arthur Mumby 1872-1954
World War, 1914-1918
Dardanelles Campaign -- Preliminary offensive on the British front -- Siege and battles of Przemysl -- Conquest of German South-West Africa -- Progress of the campaigns in East Africa and the Cameroons -- Ebb and flow along the French Front -- Campaign in Mesopotamia -- Navy in the Dardanelles -- With Sir Ian Hamilton in Gallipoli -- Submarine blockade and the "Lusitania" -- Second battle of Ypres -- From Ypres to Festubert -- Italy and the war -- Zeppelin raids on England -- Siege warfare in Gallipoli -- Eastern campaign to the fall of Warsaw -- VOLUME FOUR. -- First year of the war -- Partitions of Poland -- Great Russian retreat -- Summer of 1915 at sea -- Summer campaign on the Western Front -- Gallipoli -- Problem of the Near East -- Balkans and the Great War -- Autumn offensive of 1915 -- Invasion of Serbia -- Autumn offensive of 1915 -- Second half of 1915 at sea -- Campaign in Mesopotamia -- German counter-attacks at Loos -- Turkish massacres in Armenia -- VOLUME FIVE. -- Progress of Italy's campaign -- Gallipoli campaign - last phase -- Developments of the war by air -- Conquest of the Cameroons -- Russian front in the winter of 1915-1916 -- Champagne and the winter campaign on the French front -- Execution of Nurse Cavell -- Salonika and the Balkan campaign -- Canadians on the Western front -- Second winter on the British front -- Russian advance in Asia Minor -- India and her neighbours in the Great War -- Portugal and the World War -- Verdun - first phase -- Spring campaign on the British front, 1916 -- Campaigns in Egypt and the Soudan -- Submarines, mines, and raids -- Seige of Kut -- VOLUME SIX. -- Fall of Kut -- Russian Campaign of 1916 -- Third Battle of Ypres -- Italy's campaigns in 1916 -- Second year of the war -- German treatment of prisoners -- Battle of the Somme -- Balkan Theatre, 1916 -- Battle of Verdun, second phase -- With General Smuts in German East Africa -- Battles of the Ancre and the Winter Campaign of 1916-1917
London : Gresham, 1915-1916
v. : illus., maps, ports.
Available from Canberra Special Collection (D 521 .M85 1915)

The reconstruction of Russia
Paul Vinogradoff 1854-1925.
London; New York : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1919
68 p
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK 265 .V45 1919)

Istorii͡a Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭny Sovetskogo Soi͡uza, 1941-1945
Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia)
P. N Pospelov (Petr Nikolaevich), editor.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
Moskva : Voenizdat, 1961-1965
6 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, maps (some folded, some colour, 15 in pocket) colour plans, plates (some colour) portraits ; 27 cm + supplement (16 p., folded maps ; 26 cm), with evocative Soviet-era illustrations
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D764 .I8)

The real cold war : featuring ‘Jack in Joe's land’
Chris B. Tye
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, British -- Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia, Northern -- Naval operations, British; Naval convoys -- Russia, Northern
Archangel -- Churchill Winston -- Eden Anthony -- Edinburgh HMS Cruiser -- Jack in Joe's Land -- Jamaica HMS Cruiser -- Loades Bill Leading Signalman -- Matchless HMS Destroyer -- Murmansk -- Naval Party 100 -- North Cape Battle of -- Polyarnoe -- Scharnhorst KN German Battlecruiser -- Sheffield HMS Cruiser -- Stalin Josef -- Tirpitz German Battleship -- Tuscaloose USS Cruiser
Gillingham, Kent : The Author, 1995
viii, 194 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D771 .T93 1995)

[Six postcards]
David Low 1891-1963
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons; World War, 1939-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons
On the belt.--Mine Kampf.--Cooing of the dove.--U-boat account.--War of nerves.—‘Sieg heil! here come the supplies from Russia!’
London? : s.n., 1940?
6 postcards : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DD254 .L69 1940)

Lessons of World War Two
Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskiĭ
Between the Two World Wars.--Attack on the USSR.--Our Planet Needs Peace.; 'A decisive role in achieving victory was played by the Soviet Union, the main force in the anti-fascist coalition'. (Cover); '1939 1945' (Cover)
Moscow : Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1979
[96] p., [8] p. plates : ill., plates ; 17cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D764 .R95 1979)



















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