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The Current Digest ofthe Post-Soviet Press
Digital Archive1949 to the presentIn English
The CDPSP Digital Archive createsa sweeping panoramic chronicle ofthe rise and fall of the Soviet Unionas a superpower and the emergenceof modern Russia.
UDB-CDPSP Digital Archive
Encompassing the entire run of the CurrentDigest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, the DigitalArchive (CDPSP) is a comprehensiveretrospective digest of the news presented to theSoviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold Warthrough the emergence of Russia in the newbalance of power.
Articles translated for the Current Digestinclude important news and information fromthe leading dailies and government reports ofthe day. During the Soviet era, hundreds ofother special interest journals and authoritativesources were also scoured for relevant articles toinclude. Published with this care weekly since
T he Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press –Digital Archive 1949 to the present
1949, the CDPSP paints a broad picture of Sovietand post-Soviet times, including coverage ofdomestic affairs and social issues.
This massive English-languageresource provides rich, full-imagecontent never before availableonline.With full-text searching and full-imagebrowsing, the onlinearchive will openbroad new researchopportunities.
Making available themost extensivelyused resource forSoviet and Russianscholars in recent decades, TheCDPSP Digital Archive promises tochange research possibilities formany of tomorrow’s researchers.
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Years Leaders of the Period
1949 – 1953 Stalin, Malenkov & Bulganin
1953 – 1964 Khrushchev
1964 – 1982 Brezhnev
1982 – 1991 Andropov, Chernenko & Gorbachev
1991 – 1999 Yeltsin
2000 – 2006 Putin
The Current Digest carriedtranslations of all importantdocuments of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union and theSoviet government, providing animpressive documentary record of:• all significant speeches by Soviet leaders;• meetings of all Party congresses, including
the 1956 20th Party Congress and NikitaKhrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncingthe Stalinist “cult of personality”;
• all five-year plans and reports on planfulfillment;
• all important Soviet laws, including initialdrafts, official public discussion of the drafts,and final versions as adopted by the USSRSupreme Soviet;
• Soviet diplomacy, Soviet-US summits andother meetings of Soviet leaders with theirforeign counterparts; and
• all Soviet treaties, including arms-controltreaties, and all major foreign-policydevelopments, from the Cuban missile crisisthrough the Soviet war in Afghanistan andwithdrawal from that country.
More than 70,000 articles of Soviet and Russian news and commentary are now available online — in English.
Each subset offers a weekly digest of social,cultural, scientific, and political coveragecorresponding to its discrete historical period.
In the Soviet period, CDPSP editors were everalert for anything atypical that might herald achange in Soviet life. At the same time theyprovided readers with representative samplesof what was typically in the press.
Choose the complete collection – or select specific political periods.The complete CDPSP Digital Archive includesall the issues from 1949 to the present.
The unprecedented compilation of theCDPSP Digital Archive offers translationsof authoritative Soviet and Russian primarysource materials on a richer and morepowerful platform than ever before.
The user-friendly UDB platformquickly reveals unique historical,political, scientific and socialconnections from within almost60 years of primary-sourcematerials.The deep historical collection of theCDPSP Digital Archive is fullyindexed with current content of theCDPSP.
UDB features include•Keyword highlighting•Optimized search for Russian-
language terms•Print, save, e-mail content easily•Permanent URLs•Reliability and service from East
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Full-text indexing enables fastresults through this massivecollection.•Indexing terms and comments added by
CDPSP editors provide more “hooks”for effective searching.
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The CDPSP Digital Archive’sindexing adds powerful English-language subject access to themajor events of postwar Russia. For libraries subscribed to other East ViewUniversal Databases, adding the CDPSP’sEnglish-language index will help your
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Because the CDPSP’s UDB platformintegrates cross-searching across all otherUDB content your UDB databases areenhanced with The Current Digest’sEnglish-language indexing.
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Full-image browsing enablesusers to leaf through contentin a natural way similar toprint editions. •Full-image content offers the
complete original pages withgraphical content unavailable in full-text only databases.
•In-line browsing of full-image pagecontent requires no need to openseparate files for each page. Allpages containing linkedcontent are presentedtogether in search results fora natural reading experience.
Original bylines, notes,attributions and more arepreserved and revealed infull-image pages.Issues typically contained 20 –30 full articles:• Selected by field specialists;• In context of the full week’s
news and story development;• Not limited to a specific set
of publications;• Drawn from the most
authoritative press on themost important issues of itstime.
-rich and authoritative CDPSP Digital Archive.
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The CDPSP Digital Archivesupports cross-disciplinaryresearch for:• Undergraduate and graduate students;• Scholars and librarians; • Researchers and policmakers.
For those who want to be in the knowthe CDPSP Digital Archive illuminatesevents of interest in Soviet/Russianaffairs with authentic digests of Russian-language news and documents of currentinterest. It provides access to informationabout the government, culture, andpeoples of the world’s other superpower,once almost totally hidden from viewoutside its borders.
Also available in microfilm –The complete backfiles of The CurrentDigest of the Post-Soviet Press, includingquarterly and annual indexes, areavailable on archival quality silver halide35mm microfilm. Order with the digitalarchive and save.
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