2005-09-18 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The last time I had been in V.I. Lenin's neighborhood, back when there was a Soviet Union, there was a huge neon sign not far from the Kremlin that proclaimed ...

The author, curator of the Slavic and Baltic Division at the New York Public Library, reflects on his first experience with libraries and archives during a year of research in the former Soviet Union ...

For the first time since the Soviet Revolution, the Lenin State Library which is the largest in the U.S.S.R., today announced establishment of direct contact with publishers in Palestine for the ...

A photo caption in Section 1 on July 31 mistakenly described protesters at the Lenin Library in Moscow as ethnic Armenians. In fact, they were ethnic Turks, as a sign ...

After ten weeks in Russia, TIME Correspondent Samuel Welles went on to Finland and Sweden and, without censorship, reported: At 5 in the morning, the train from Leningrad stopped near the Finnish ...

In the Soviet Union, the public has limited access to library stacks, and browsing is not allowed. That’s the observation of librarian Sarah Jubinski, director of Northampton Community College’s ...

A new Jewish book room at Russia’s main public library has opened — but has created controversy even before receiving its first patrons. The room was inaugurated earlier this month at the Russian ...