Revolutions in History
The purpose of this guide is to list relevant Internet sites, Library databases, electronic journals and printed reference sources relating to Revolutions. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area. Other useful resources will appear under General History.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
There are not many ejournals specifically on the topic of Revolutions, but the following ejournal does contain some articles. Also check the ejournals listed under General History.
USSR and successor states
Foreign Policy, on the fall of communism in the USSR. Earlier articles from this journal can be read in Fisher Research 327.05 61.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Full text sites
1848: Europe in Revolt
From the Fordham University Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook19.html
1989-1994 Reunification in Germany
US Documents relating to the reunification of Germany, including speeches, senate reports and treaties. Part of the History of German-American Relations website.
url: http://usa.usembassy.de/garelations8994.htm
Centre historique des Archives nationales
This is the digital library of the Centre historique des Archives nationales (French National Archives). It includes numerous historical public documents and records from Ancien Regime and the Revolution. Access to related databases is provided and documents must be ordered over the Web.
url: http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/intr.htm
Collapse of the USSR: Ten years on
BBC website containing a timeline, map, contemporary accounts, media analyses and photos.
url: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2001/collapse_of_ussr/default.stm
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collection Online
Provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Based on The English Short Title Catalogue, it includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. As well as books and directories it covers sheet music, pamphlets and advertisements.
Available to University of Sydney staff and students.
Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
This online encyclopedia contains a large number of articles written by scholars from around the world on topics related to the popular revolutions that spread across Europe in 1848.
url: http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/index.htm
French Revolutionary Pamphlets
Facsimiles of three pamphlets (in French) published during the French Revolution.
url: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/fr_rev.html
Germany Divided and Reunified
Primary Documents on German history from 1945 to the present.
url: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/1989.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook - French Revolution
Primary sources on the Revolution and Napoleon, presented by Fordham University.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site, created by the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History Project (City University of New York), contains topical essays, texts, images, songs, maps, a timeline and a glossary.
url: http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
Marxists.org Internet Archive
Full text documents with many, translated by volunteers, in English.
url: http://www.marxists.org/
October Revolution
A brief description of events with a glossary and links to contemporary accounts.
url: http://marxists.org/history/ussr/revolution/index.htm
Subject directories
French Revolution
Listing of sites from the Voice of the Shuttle metahistory site.
url: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse-netscape.asp?id=964
Links of the French Revolution
Edited by David Andress, Senior lecturer in Modern European History, University of Portsmouth, the site provides links to encyclopedia entries, essays, a glossary and chronology.
url: http://userwww.port.ac.uk/andressd/frlinks.htm
Paris Commune and related websites, 1871
Created by the University of NSW, this site provides links, biographies, articles from Australian newspapers and historical essays.
url: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/pariscommune/links/links.htm
Russian Revolution, 1917
A vivid site linking to maps, photos, full text documents and other directories.
url: http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
Internet Sites
Coup in the Soviet Union
A Minute-By-Minute Chronology of events from 18th - 19th August 1991.
url: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/1989.html
French Revolution Documents
An index to the Lilly Library French Revolution document collection - over 7,000 journals, polemical pamphlets, and printed documents. The database does not include the full text, but allows you to find the source of the documents.
url: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/french.shtml
Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. The originals are located in the Deering Library at Northwestern University.
url: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/
PRINTED RESOURCES
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Blackwell encyclopedia of the Russian revolution / edited by Harold Shukman.
Edition Rev. and updated. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1994.
Fisher Special Reserve, Undergraduate 947.084103 1
France, 1789-1962 / James J. Cooke.
Newton Abbot [Eng.]: David & Charles: Archon Books, 1975.
Fisher Ref 944.003 3
Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française / publié sous la direction scientifique de Jean-René Suratteau et François Gendron.
Edition 1re ed. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, c1989.
Fisher Research 944.0403 1
Encyclopedia of political revolutions / Jack A. Goldstone, editor.
Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, c1998.
Fisher Ref 903 26
Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution francaise: 1789-1799 / par Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, Alfred Fierro.
Publisher Paris: R. Laffont, c1987.
Fisher Research 944.040341 1
Bibliographies
Atlas de la Révolution française / sous la direction de Serge Bonin et Claude Langlois.
Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1987-1997, 2 vols
Fisher Research 944.040222 1
1848 Austrian revolutionary broadsides and pamphlets: a catalogue of the collection in the Houghton Library, Harvard University / compiled by James E. Walsh.
Boston: G. K. Hall, c1976.
Fisher Research 016.943613 2
Guide to the collections in the Hoover Institution archives relating to Imperial Russia, the Russian revolutions and civil war, and the first emigration / compiled by Carol A. Leadenham.
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, c1986.
Fisher Research 016.94708 2
How we lost the Civil War: bibliography of Russian emigre memoirs on the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 / David Arans.
Publisher Newtonville, Mass: Oriental Research Partners, 1988.
Fisher Research 016.9470841 3
Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials.
Edited by James D. Hardy, Jr., John H. Jensen, and Martin Wolfe.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press [1966]
Fisher Ref 944.04 39
Modern revolutions and revolutionists: a bibliography / Robert Blackey.
Santa Barbara: Clio Books, 1976.
Fisher Research 016.3016333 2
Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921: an annotated bibliography / compiled, edited and annotated by Jonathan D. Smele.
London; New York: Continuum, 2002.
1 copy ordered for Fisher Research on 31-07-2002.
Biographies
Encyclopedia of revolutions and revolutionaries: from anarchism to Zhou Enlai / Martin van Crevald, general editor.
Publisher New York : Facts on File, 1996.
Fisher Ref 909.0803 1
Indexes
ABC pol sci: Advance bibliography of contents: political science & government.
Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, vol 1, 1969+
Fisher Ref 320.016 11
Alternative press index.
Publisher [College Park, Md., etc.] Alternative Press Centre
Fisher Research 070.170 2, vol 1(1969)-22(1990)
Fisher Ref 070.170 2, vol 23(1991)-26(1994)
Primary Source collections
Le Sans-culotte [microform of the newspaper].
Paris: Impr. du Sans-culotte, 1794.
No. 427 (18 Apr. 1794)-no. 500 (30 June 1794)
Fisher Microform 074.36 5
Annales historiques de la Révolution française.
Reims, Paris, Firmin-Didot and c. [etc.]
v.1(1924)-56(1984),259(1985)-318(1999),323(2001)+
Fisher Research 944.04 360
Despatches from the barricades: an eye-witness account of the revolutions that shook the world 1989-90 / John Simpson.
London: Hutchinson, 1990.
Fisher Research 909.828 10
The French Revolution: extracts from The Times, 1789-1794 / introduced and edited by Neal Ascherson.
London: Times Books, 1975.
Fisher Research 944.0408 2
German unification and its discontents: documents from the peaceful revolution / Richard T. Gray and Sabine Wilke, editors and translators.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1996.
Fisher Research 943.10878 10