With support from CREEES, Stanford University Libraries acquires online collections of digitized ephemera on Eastern Europe

With the support of funding from CREEES through its Title VI grant, Stanford University Libraries recently acquired six online collections of digitized ephemera related to social movements and elections in Eastern Europe. The collections include materials from the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine (calendars, leaflets, stickers, flags, ribbons, newspapers, poetry, postcards, and photographs); the Russian presidential election of 2012 and state Duma election of 2011 (various party materials, lists of candidates, training materials for independent and international observers, surveys, protest ephemera, documents about the election results); the Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections of 2014 (central election commission documentation, registered candidates, observer materials, results, leaflets and fliers); and the Belarusian presidential election of 2010 (candidate dossiers, official and independent exit polls, observer materials, campaign ephemera).

Stanford faculty, students, and researchers can access all six collections of digitized primary sources through the East View Information Services Universal Databases portal (https://dlib.eastview.com/;jsessionid=aaaW6P3dhXgGO-uWfF66v), under the heading “Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera,” or by a key word search in Searchworks.