Using Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts (1955-1995) (Ref D 299.H5) contains citations and abstracts for articles of interest to historians published in over 2,000 journals. The abstracts are arranged by subject and are indexed by subject, geographical area, and author. Historical Abstracts covers history of the world, exclusive of North America.

Historical Abstracts comes in 2 parts, each of which is bound and indexed separately.

Part A: Modern History Abstracts, 1450-1914
Part B: Twentieth Century Abstracts, 1914 to the present

To look for articles by subject use the SUBJECT INDEX which appears in the back of each bound volume.

A subject in the index will appear as in this example: (taken from Vol.41 part B)


Bolshevik Party See also Communist Party


Each abstract is listed at several headings, which together describe the subject of the article, and years covered.

Abstracts for the articles are listed by the numbers at the end of each entry in the above list. Information provided for each article includes:
Abstract # - Author - Article Title - Journal Title - Date - Vol.# - Page #s

Example:


Abstract 41B:7991.
Pipes, Richard. THE BOLSHEVIKS DISSOLVE THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. Survey [Great Britain] 1988 30(3): 148-175. Details the manner in which the Bolsheviks dealt with the Constituent Assembly from November 1917 to January 1918. The eventual dissolution of the Assembly by a show of Bolshevik armed force brought forth no counter uprising in the country and produced the collapse of the socialist intelligentsia. The rivals of the Bolsheviks, though backed by at least three-fourths of the population, were disunited, leaderless, and above all, unwilling to fight. As a result, the Bolsheviks came to power by force and violence; their willingness to resort to such brutal measures whenever they ran into opposition marked their subsequent modes of governing. Excerpted from the author's multivolume History of the Russian Revolution. Based on Soviet historical works and secondary sources; 72 notes. P.R..Lever


To find the article itself check the Citation Linker (on the "Finding Articles" web page) under the title of the journal, or using the bibliographic information for the specific article. Articles not found at SUNY Potsdam may be requested through Interlibrary Loan (there is a link to ILLiad - our interlibrary loan service - through Citation Linker.)

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