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2025 Summer Research Laboratory

A guide for Summer Research Laboratory participants at the University of Illinois Library. It contains information on virtual services, events, access to digital resources, and research technologies.

Overview

Below are some selected highlights from the University of Illinois Slavic Collection. This list is in no way exhaustive of our special collections, but rather illustrates the breadth and quality of materials we offer.

Unique Archival and Reference Resources

Guides to Regional Archives in Russia

The International and Area Studies Library holds many archival guides; below are a few guides to regional archives within Russia. When browsing the reference collection in-person, check the 027 call numbers for archival guides.

Croatian Collection

Among comparable academic libraries, the University of Illinois has the fifth largest Croatian library collection in the United States, comprised of over 18,000 titles that are about Croatia, published in Croatia, or written in Croatian. Our holdings of Croatian periodicals are a particular strength of the collection. Some of our uniquely extensive or rare Croatian periodicals from the 19th century and early 20th century include:

Our collection also features periodicals of the Croatian diaspora. Below are a few of the most complete or rare diaspora periodicals we hold:

Our Glagolitic manuscripts are another highlight of our Croatian collection, including a recently acquired facsimile of Misal Kneza Novaka, available to view in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Ukrainian Women's Press

The University of Illinois collection houses quite a few Ukrainian women's periodicals largely published in the first half of the 20th century in the territories of present-day Ukraine and North America, many of which are rare in North American libraries. Below is a selection and not a complete list of what is available.

Ukrainian women’s periodicals of Galicia, Bukovyna, and Kyiv

Chernivtsi:

Kolomyia:

Kyiv:

L’viv:

Ukrainian women’s periodicals of North America

Monographs, collected works, and reference works

Monographs

  • Luhovyĭ, Oleksander. Vyznachne zhinotstvo Ukraïny : istorychni zhyttiepysy u chotyrokh chastynakh. Toronto: Nakl. avtora, 1942.
  • Pavlykovsʹka, Iryna. Na hromads’kyĭ shliakh : z nahody 70-littia ukraïns’koho zhinochoho rukhu. Filadelfiia: Nakl. Svitovoï Federatsiï Ukraïns’kykh ZHinok Orhanizatsiï, 1956.
  • Peredyriĭ, V. A., N. M. Sydorenko, and Tamara Starchenko. ZHinocha dolia na tli doby : litopys zhinochoho rukhu u svitli ukraïnsʹkykh vydanʹ. Kyïv: Doslidnyts’kyĭ tsentr istoriï ukraïnsʹkoï presy, 1999.

Collected works

  • “Ukraïnka u vilʹnomu sviti, 1884-1959 : zbirnyk, vydanyĭ u 75-littia ukraïnsʹkoho zhinochoho rukhu i 10-littia Svitovoï Federatsiï Ukraïnsʹkykh ZHinochykh Organyzatsiï : z nahody Svitovoho Konhresu Ukraïnsʹkoho Zhinotstva u NiuĬorku = Ukrainian woman in the free world : World Congress of Ukrainian Women : June 24-27, 1959, New York, N.Y.” New York: SOFUZHO, 1959.
  • IAndova, Dariia Elysaveta. Ukraïnsʹka zhinka na usluhakh svoho narodu. Edmonton: [V druk. Viktora i VolodymyraKupchenkiv], 1952.

Reference works

  • Peredyriĭ, V. A. (Valentyna Andriïvna). Ukraïnsʹki periodychni vydannia dlia zhinok v Halychyni, 1853-1939 rr. : anotovanyĭ kataloh. Lʹviv: Naukovo-vydavnyche pidpryiemstvo “META,” 1996.
  • Romaniuk, M. M. and M. V. Halushko. Ukrainsʹki chasopysy Kolomyi, 1865-1994 rr.: istoryko-bibliohrafichnedoslidzhennia. Lʹviv: Naukovo-doslidnyi tsentr periodyky NAN Ukrainy, 1996.
  • Orlyk, M. A. ZHinky Ukraïny : biohrafichnyĭ entsyklopedychnyĭ slovnyk. Kyïv: “Feniks,” 2001.

Samizdat Collection

The works in our collection of samizdat were purchased from Masha and Jacques Sayag Collection of Samizdat in Paris. Some of these works were specifically forbidden to be published in the USSR (such as Ginzburg’s Krutoi Marshrut (Journey into the Whirlwind) or Raskol’nikov’s “Otkrytoe pis’mo Stalinu (Open letter to Stalin),”) and some were never submitted for formal publication because the authors did not want to support the ideological monopoly of the state (such as Aleinikov’s poems or the excerpts from Sintaksis). All of them give us a better picture of the intellectual and material culture of the Soviet Union: which ideas were considered too decadent or dissonant for the public, and the lengths to which people would go to ensure their ideas saw the light of day.

All of these works can be viewed by request in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.