This guide has been created to support students studying The Russian Revolution. It includes links to relevant articles, videos, and helpful websites. Please contact the library on vbclibrary@viewbank.vic.edu.au if you need any support accessing resources, or want to suggest something to add.
Library of Congress website - photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Spartacus Educational web page - short biographies of revolutionary leaders, links and overviews of important events
Marxist Internet Archive - information on revolutionary leaders, ideas and movements
Bucknell University website - links to further sites on Russian history
Orlando Figes’ website contains useful summaries and supplementary material to complement Figes’ Revolutionary Russia text
Bob Atchison’s Alexander Palace Time Machine site - links to resources on the Romanov dynasty
Join the State Library to receive free access to a range of online resources. Sign up here for immediate access, and visit their VCE Revolutions Research guide for information, and some suggested ebooks and articles.
JSTOR is a valuable source for scholarly articles and ebooks. Some of their content is freely available. You can register for an individual account to read up to 100 full text articles per month from their subscription collection.
Use the Google Scholar search engine to locate scholarly literature (articles, theses and books from academic publishers, universities and other web sites). In some cases it will link you to the full text but sometimes it may refer you to articles only available with subscriptions. You can contact the library for help locating these articles.
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These can be found on the VCAA website. Papers from the past 2 years are available below.