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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · 15d

The Afghan Central Press collection brings together four national, Kabul-based publications of Afghanistan whose long runs and prominence provide a concentrated vantage point for understanding developments in Afghanistan for much of the twentieth century. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · 17d

The new installment of East View's weekly highlights blog is now out www.eastview.com/chernobyl/

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“People ask me: “Why don’t you take photos in color? In color!” But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.”― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral H...

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UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social · 23d

UCL staff and students now have access to Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, 1870-2021 from the @eastview.bsky.social Global Press Archive. These include several Arabic newspapers from Israel/Palestine blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejou...

Screenshot of the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection in Global Press Archive

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · 25d

The new installment of East View's weekly highlights blog is now out www.eastview.com/harvest-1963/

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Question to Radio Armenia:“Is it possible to build Communism in a randomly taken capitalist country, for example, Holland?”Answer:“It’s possible, but what did Holland ever do to you?” In his bilingual...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are pleased to let you know that we are starting a new, weekly blog series, where we will highlight some of the most interesting, curious, amusing, and yes bizarre finds in our databases. We hope to make the posts more frequent. Read the first post here www.eastview.com/love-amongst...

Love Amongst the Stars - East View

On April 8, 1991 Pravda published an article about the 12-th International Symposium of Gravitational Physiology held in Leningrad entitled Love Amongst the Stars. And no, the article was not about in...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 9

The new installment of East View's weekly highlights blog is now out
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For people familiar with American religious history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ubiquity of televangelists the mise en scène in one particularly famous mega church looked tried, ...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · 29d

The latest issue of The Current Digest of the Russian Press is out www.eastviewpress.com/cdrp-toc-33-...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 9

The new installment of East View's weekly highlights blog is now out
www.eastview.com/reverend-gor...

Reverend Gorby - East View

For people familiar with American religious history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ubiquity of televangelists the mise en scène in one particularly famous mega church looked tried, ...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 8

*The journal’s content does not reflect East View’s editorial stance, nor do we vouch for its validity. It is published solely to provide experts with primary source material on Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, historical perspective, economic views, and global outlook.

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 8

The latest issue of International Affairs is out.* Articles on the NATO war planning, US-Iran relations, Trump and tariffs, and more. For the full table of contents please follow the link www.eastviewpress.com/internationa...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are pleased to let you know that we are starting a new, weekly blog series, where we will highlight some of the most interesting, curious, amusing, and yes bizarre finds in our databases. We hope to make the posts more frequent. Read the first post here www.eastview.com/love-amongst...

Love Amongst the Stars - East View

On April 8, 1991 Pravda published an article about the 12-th International Symposium of Gravitational Physiology held in Leningrad entitled Love Amongst the Stars. And no, the article was not about in...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Aug 22

Explore the Balkans’ complex history with this 2-vol set of documents & maps from the British diplomatic archives. Featuring treaties, reports & diplo. files on Kosovo and former Yugoslavia’s borders. Essential for scholars of Albania, Serbia, Montenegro & more. www.eastviewpress.com/resources/bo...

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Straits Settlements (1826–1941) annual reviews in 12 vols trace Singapore & Malaysia’s history under British rule. Detailed admin records. Learn more: www.eastview.com/resources/bo...

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 29

The longest-running Japanese American newspaper in the United States The Rafu Shimpo is now available from East View as a digital archive. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Chernobyl Newspapers Collection includes three previously unavailable local newspapers, Prapor peremohy, Tribuna Energetika, and Trybuna pratsi, published in towns in the exclusion zone and its immediate vicinity. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 22

Designed for independent researchers in mind, East View On Demand now allows you to access millions of articles worldwide. Pay only for the content you need. on-demand.eastview.com

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 21

East View's new collection of e-books Essential Russian Classics is designed to provide direct and easy access for students and researchers interested in Russian literature. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/bo...

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 14

East View offers thousands of critical titles from premier academic publishers in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and beyond. Ask your library if it is subscribed to our constantly updating database of Slavic e-book collections www.eastview.com/resources/bo...

East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 14

Founded in 1917, Gudok (Гудок, Whistle) began as a small newspaper focused on rail industry news, but grew by the 1970s into a 700,000-circulation daily with an edgy mix of commentary and satire on culture, politics, and society. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Chernobyl Newspapers Collection includes three previously unavailable local newspapers, Prapor peremohy, Tribuna Energetika, and Trybuna pratsi, published in towns in the exclusion zone and its immediate vicinity. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Baghdad Observer Digital Archive offers researchers the only complete collection of the official English-language newspaper of Ba’athist Iraq. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 7

Krokodil, the USSR’s top satirical magazine, launched in 1922 with a snarling red crocodile on its cover. Peaking at 5.8M copies (1980), it mocked religion, bureaucracy, alcoholism & the West, offering biting Cold War-era cartoons aligned with the party line. www.eastview.com/resources/jo...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Est. in 1925 in Moscow, 30 Dnei (30 дней) was an illustrated Soviet literary journal most famous for the serialized publications of such Soviet literary sensations as Il’f & Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf. Learn more & subscribe to the digital archive www.eastview.com/resources/jo...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Baghdad Observer Digital Archive offers researchers the only complete collection of the official English-language newspaper of Ba’athist Iraq. Learn more www.eastview.com/resources/gp...

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East View Information Services @eastview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Est. in 1925 in Moscow, 30 Dnei (30 дней) was an illustrated Soviet literary journal most famous for the serialized publications of such Soviet literary sensations as Il’f & Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf. Learn more & subscribe to the digital archive www.eastview.com/resources/jo...

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