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Library Exercise.        Russian History  -- 30 points.

This worksheet is being distributed to you in lieu of a library orientation because Dr. Clark must be out today, due to family illness.  You may want to see a reference librarian (or government documents librarian) for assistance.  Due November 10, 2004 IN CLASS.  If you have a friend or classmate who missed class today, feel free to give them a copy of this assignment.

You may do this assignment on your own time, but you might prefer to do this assignment during our class hour, since I have decided that you may work in your discussion groups.  A nice touch might be to work on topics relevant to one another’s papers!  However, exact copies of all answers will be viewed as too much collaboration!  Help one another, but don’t copy wholesale!
If working in group – list group comrades here:
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1.    Go to the Cornette Library search page.  Find a title about one of the following topics:  Russian Arts (music, literature, visual, film), Turgenev, Nicholas II, Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin, Cold War.  Write a full citation for the book here:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

2.    Go to WorldCat (use “QuickFind” box on Cornette home page).  Find one title on a topic of your choice (must differ from above).  It may be a book about a topic on which you would like to write your essay.  Write the topic here __________________.  Write a full citation for the book here:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

3.    Find one other citation on your chosen topic.  It may be from Cornette or not.  It may be from a bibliography or the library catalog.  It may be a journal article.  It may be a primary source.  Write a full citation for the book or work here _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
 

4.    Find a book review about one of the following books (HINT:  Use JSTOR, H-Net reviews (www.h-net.org) or Book Review Digest – use of Amazon reviews will result in a 0 for this assignment! J )
a.    Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
b.    Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution
c.    George Vernadsky; Ralph T. Fisher Jr.; Alan D. Ferguson; Andrew Lossky; Sergei Pushkarev, A Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917. Vol. 1: Early Times to the Late Seventeenth Century. Vol. 2: Peter the Great to Nicholas I. Vol. 3: Alexander II to the February Revolution.

Write the book review citation here _______________________________.
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What sort of source is this? _____________________________________.
How did you find this review? ___________________________________.
Could you find the review in Cornette Library (if not, how would you get it)? ______________________.
EXTRA CREDIT:  Is the review positive or negative? _________________.

5.    Repeat the above exercise, using a title of your choice, but this time, you MUST find the review and look at it.
Write the book review citation here _______________________________.
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What sort of source is this? _____________________________________.
How did you find this review? ___________________________________.
Could you find the review in Cornette Library? ______________________.
Is the review positive or negative? ________________________________.

6.    Find a primary source relevant to one of these topics:  Russian Arts (music, literature, visual, film), Turgenev, Nicholas II, Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin, Cold War.  Write a full citation for the book here:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

7.    Find a primary source on a topic (relevant to the course) of your choice available immediately [i.e. IN THE CORNETTE LIBRARY or online] –.  Write a full citation for the book here:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Congratulations!  You have now prepared for your writing assignment.