University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies 1907–

A Bibliographical Database of Research in the British Isles.

Compiled and edited by Gregory Walker and J. S. G. Simmons.

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25 January 2012: Now updated with 197 additional recent theses. Please notify us of any omissions or corrections.

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Lists details of over 4,100 doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities.
Covers research relating to Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, and the area of the former USSR, including Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia.
Subjects include art, crime, economics, energy, finance, gender studies, health, history, international relations, linguistics, human rights, literature, media, security, minorities, music, politics, religion, and society.
Search by keyword, author, subject, area, institution or date.
Regularly updated.

Based on, and continues, University Theses in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies 1907-2006, by Gregory Walker and J.S.G. Simmons, published in 2008.

Scope

Type of Material Included. This database gives information about doctoral and selected masters’ theses in Russian, Soviet and East European studies which have been accepted by any British or Irish degree-awarding body. It does not include dissertations written for MA or other one-year masters’ degrees. B.Litts and B.Phils have been included where these were later made convertible to M.Litts and M.Phils.

Subject and Geographical Coverage. Theses are included if they deal wholly or substantially with any subject in the field of Russian, Soviet, Slavonic or East European studies broadly defined, including the social sciences as well as the humanities. Geographical coverage extends to Russia, the whole area of the former USSR (including Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia), and the area of the formerly communist states of Eastern Europe except the GDR.

Sources

The preferred source for the thesis details given in the database (author, title, awarding body, degree and date) is the library catalogue record of the awarding institution. If no such record has been found, the data is drawn where possible from the catalogues of the British Library, the Senate House Library (for London University institutions), the National Library of Wales (for Welsh universities), or from the COPAC online union catalogue. For fewer than 2 per cent of entries, no catalogue record of any kind has been found, and particulars have been compiled from one or more other sources, including the Index to Theses (formerly Aslib Index to Theses), other published thesis lists, university and departmental websites, and lists supplied by institutions. In these cases the entry carries the annotation [NCR] (‘No Catalogue Record’).

Content of Entries

Author’s Name. The spelling of the author’s name normally follows that of the preferred source (see ‘Sources’ above), although misspellings found there have been corrected. Diacritics in an author’s name are shown where they appear in the source or where their use elsewhere has been established, but not otherwise.

Title and Subtitle. Titles and subtitles are normally given in full as they appear in the preferred source, but a few very long ones have been abbreviated, indicated by […]. Diacritics have been added to non-English words (notably place and personal names) wherever they are standard in the original language. Transliterations from Cyrillic are shown as they appear in the source. Minor misspellings and typos have been corrected without indication. Where titles are uninformative, an expansion or explanatory note has been added where possible.

Awarding Body. The name of the awarding body is given in the form (sometimes abbreviated) which was current at the date of the thesis. In the case of federal universities (London, Wales, National University of Ireland) and the former Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), the name of the sponsoring college or other institution is also given where known. Note that the awarding body for theses from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in the University of London is shown as ‘London (SSEES)’ up to 1999, and as ‘London (UCL)’ after that date, since the School became a constituent of University College London in 2000.

Degree Awarded. The title of the degree awarded is given after the name of the awarding body. The form is that current at the date of the thesis, even if the title was subsequently made convertible to another, e.g. a B.Litt to an M.Litt.

Date. The year given is the year shown on the thesis itself, where this can be established from the preferred source. It may therefore be earlier than the year of approval or award of the degree.

Access to British and Irish Theses

Updated January 2012

A growing number of institutions now offer open access from their own online research repositories to the text of most of their recent theses, so this is worth checking first. In some cases, thesis texts are available from authors’ own websites.

The British Library’s Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS) is a national service giving online access to UK doctoral theses. The EThOS website at http://ethos.bl.uk gives details of the service. Most UK universities now contribute to EThOS, but Oxford and Cambridge are at present among those that don’t: the website carries a list of participants. EThOS does not cover masters’ dissertations, nor any theses from universities in the Irish Republic.

Hard copies of doctoral theses, and often of masters’ dissertations too, are normally deposited in the home institution’s library and will be recorded in its online public access catalogue (OPAC). Libraries will generally make them available to bona fide researchers, but if you want to make a personal visit to consult a thesis, you may need to arrange this in advance.

Applications for the loan or copying of theses or dissertations not available through other channels should made to the institution concerned, normally through an academic library’s inter-library loans office.

You are usually allowed to make reasonable quotations from a thesis if you give proper acknowledgment, but more extensive copying is not permitted without the consent of the copyright holder (usually the author). In some cases further restrictions may apply, such as an embargo on access for a stated number of years.

If you need to make a wider search of British and Irish university theses, the fullest listing is the Index to Theses (formerly Aslib Index to Theses), published by Expert Information (www.theses.com). It is available online and in printed form, and most academic libraries subscribe to it. Abstracts are provided for some theses from 1970 and for nearly all theses after 1986. Links are provided to full texts online via institutional repositories or EThOS where applicable.

Acknowledgements

To the late John S. G. Simmons for the compilation of the first thesis bibliography in this field, published in Oxford Slavonic Papers in 1967 with quinquennial supplements in 1973, 1977 and 1982; and to Mr Godfrey B. Simmons for permission to make use of his late brother’s lists.

To Dr Gregory Walker for permission to make use of the quinquennial lists compiled by him and published in Oxford Slavonic Papers in 1987, 1994 and 1998.

To the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, for permission to use the 1997-2001 quinquennial list compiled by Dr Walker and published in The Slavonic and East European Review in 2004.

To the many staff members of university departments and libraries who have answered queries and offered advice.

This database, like the earlier printed bibliographies from which it is partly derived, is indebted to the catalogues of many university and national libraries, and to the Index to Theses (formerly Aslib Index to Theses), and this is again appreciatively acknowledged.

Abbreviations

CNAA	Council for National Academic Awards
KCL	Kings College London
LBS	London Business School
LSE	London School of Economics
LSHTM	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
[NCR]	No catalogue record found (see ‘Sources' above)
NUI	National University of Ireland
QM	Queen Mary, University of London
SOAS	School of Oriental and African Studies
SSEES	School of Slavonic and East European Studies
TC	Trinity College
UCL	University College London

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A Bibliographical Database of Research in the British Isles.

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University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies 1907– A Bibliographical Database of Research in the British Isles. Compiled and edited by Gregory Walker and J. S. G. Simmons.

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University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies 1907–

A Bibliographical Database of Research in the British Isles.

Compiled and edited by Gregory Walker and J. S. G. Simmons.