Online Resources on the Balkans

PROJECT THREE: These selected Web links offer full text sources on Eastern European (especially Balkan) history that could be recommended to high school and college students who choose to work on the Internet. In no way exhaustive, criteria for this list include:

• reliable sources,
• mainly in English, and
• dealing mainly with historical topics.

Resources (especially collections of links) from academic associations, libraries and nongovernment agencies:

• Internet resources on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London).
• The Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library (REESWeb) at the University of Pittsburgh has news, announcements and links to Web sites.
• REENIC, the Russian and East European Network Information Center (U. of Texas.).
• The web site for INCORE (International Conflict Research, a British policy group on conflict and ethnicity) covers Balkan hotspots.
• Travels in Southeastern Europe is a free collection with digitized versions of more than 100 travel accounts in Western and Balkan languages, most of them originally published between 1800 and 1920.
• Project Hellinomnimon is a digital library about the "History of Science and Philosophy in the Greek Speaking Regions (1453-1821)" from Athens University.
• Course syllabi on Eastern Europe from H-Net's HABSBURG site.
• AAASS, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
• Association francaise d'etudes sur les Balkans publishes the periodical Balkanologie.
• Prof. Anna Cienciala (U. of Kansas) has posted online lecture notes of English-language works.
• Integrated History: An Online Archive of Primary Sources on the History of East-Central Europe for Educators, Students and Scholars (Cornell).
• The Social Sciences pages of Intute offer links to full text sites: search under "balkan".

U. S. government agencies post useful texts:

• U. S. State Department brief "Background Notes" for most nations, emphasizing current conditions. Some older editions are archived.
• Full-text books on southeastern Europe from the U.S. government's Country Studies/Area Handbooks series (for the complete list of handbooks see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/):
  • Albania, updated April 1992.
  • Austria, updated December 1993.
  • Bulgaria, updated June 1992.
  • Hungary, updated September 1989.
  • Moldova, update June 1995.
  • Romania, updated July 1989.
  • Turkey, updated January 1995.
  • Yugoslavia, updated December 1990.

The library-catalog utility OCLC catalogs "ebooks" through its WorldCat database. Among them are these resources (often pdfs) that are available without licensing, fee or authentication (samples):

• George E. Blau, The German campaigns in the Balkans, Spring 1941 (1953). U. S. Army Historical Study official series.
• I. E. Gueshoff, The Balkan League (1915). Digital reprint of a book by a Bulgarian statesman.
• R. Craig Nation, War in the Balkans 1991-2002 (2003). A 404-page text from the U. S. Army War College.
• Ioannis Pattas, Kosovo conflict: Emerging relationships and implications for Greece (2002). A master's thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School.
• Ferdinand Xhaferaj, Building up a strategy for de-Balkanizing the Balkans (2002). A master's thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School.

For news sources see the page at http://staff.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/news.html.

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