The first sub-series - "Film" - comprises periodicals and archival material dating from the first decades of Russian cinema (1907-1940). The second - "Theater" - is devoted to Russian and Russian-Jewish theater history. The third - "Entertainment and Leisure Activities" - contains journals that reflect the changing lifestyles of the emerging middle class of pre-Revolutionary Russia. The fourth - "Mass Media" - has a more outspoken diachronic dimension. It includes the highly successful collection
Gazety-Kopeiki, as well as lifestyle magazines and children's journals from various periods. The fifth sub-series - "Everyday Life" - focuses on the hardship of life under Stalin and his somewhat more liberal successors. Finally, the sixth - "High Culture/Art" - provides an exhaustive overview of the historic avant-garde in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Europe, which despite its elitist nature pretended to cater to a mass audience.
ONLINE COLLECTIONS
FILM
Early Russian Cinema
Screen and Stage
Soviet Cinema
Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents
THEATER
Jewish Theater under Stalinism
Russian Theater in the Early 20th Century
Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters
LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Children's Leisure Activities in Russia
Cult of Body
MASS MEDIA
Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press
Mass Media in Russia, 1908-1918
Popular Fiction in Russia (link not yet active)
EVERYDAY LIFE
World of Children in the USSR
ART
Russian Avant-garde, 1904-1946
