Crisis in the Ukraine
Books & databases
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Drug traffic--Mexico
Narco-terrorism--Mexico
Drug control--Mexico
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Databases: Try databases which deal with Latin America, politics, or social issues, including
Newspapers & news bulletins:
Crisis in the Ukraine
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The long-standing crisis in Ukrainian governance has now reached a tipping point, with a Russian military occupation of the Crimean Peninsula. How Russians, Ukrainians, and the rest of the world interact will determine the outcome or resolution of the gravest crisis in East-West relations since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Keeping current:
There are a number of blogs, newsportals, and other web resources which are keeping track of unrest and separatism in Ukraine. They include
Ukrainian Liveblog
(Al Jazeera)
Live Blog: Ukraine On The Brink
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Ukrainian Crisis 2014
(University College, London--School of Slavonic & East European Studies Library)
Ukraine Country Information
(Weber State University)
Fluid Future: Understanding the Black Sea as a Region
(University of Illinois, Urbana)
Ukrainian news sources
- forUm
Political, economic, and social news about Ukraine. In Ukrainian and English.
- Ukrainian Journal
English-language daily newsletter covering breaking political and business news from Ukraine.
- Ukrinform
Ukrainian and world news from the national news agency. In Ukrainian and English.
- UNIAN
Independent news agency. In Ukrainian and English.(Thanks to Dan Pennel, Russian and East European Studies Resources @ Pitt)
Reference Resources
Encyclopedia of Russian History
Online resource
The following materials are shelved in the Reference Collection, Learning Commons level:
Encyclopedia of Russian history DK14.E53 2004
Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation DK36.S285 2010
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture DK510.32.E53 2007
Shelved in the stacks are
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union DK14.C35 1994
Cultural atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union DK32.M62 1989+
An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires DK33.E837 1994
Encyclopedia of Russian history : from the Christianization of Kiev to the break-up of the U.S.S.R DK36.P39 1993
Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union : from the Romanov dynasty to Vladimir Putin DK40.P36 2004
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia 31v. AE5 .B58
Online Databases
Databases: Try databases which deal with Russian-Ukrainian politics, or social issues, including
Ukrainian resources in the Gale Virtual Reference Library
Russian resources in the Gale Virtual Reference Library
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
(Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
International Political Science Abstracts
Columbia International Affairs Online
Country resources:
Newspapers & news bulletins:
CQ Researcher
Congressional Quarterly research bulletin.
(Note: Must have UMass Username/password to access, except for the Ukrainian encyclopedia))
Books
Relevant subject headings for books in the Five Colleges catalog include
Crimea--
Crimean Tartars--
Russia--Foreign relations
Russia--Foreign relations--Europe
Ukraine--History
Ukraine--Foreign economic relations--Russia
Ukraine--Politics and government
etc...
Don't forget to take your search from the local to the national/international level by searching WorldCat for more books on this subject.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to James Kelly and Dr. Robert Rothstein for suggestions and links.
Comments & feedback to Dr. Peter Stern, Du Bois Library.
