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 ...

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 ...

The Lubavitch movement is celebrating the transfer of 16 religious books to a Lubavitch-run synagogue in Moscow. But it is unclear when — and indeed, if — the balance of the thousands of books that ...