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The books presented here are selected from recent acquisitions in the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2015 to 2021 this section had a single author. This year we return to the collaborative model employed in all previous years (beginning in 1975). Reviewers from the Slavic Reference Service and other Slavic, East European, and Eurasian library specialists at Illinois are identified by their initials (Jan Adamczyk, Katherine Ashcraft, Tabitha Cochran, Kit Condill, Joe Lenkart, Larry Miller, Olga Makarova, and Marek Sroka).

Auxiliary features include a 16-page section of photographs, an index of personal names, list of abbreviations, and a selective bibliography including archival sources, books, articles, and internet links. There are eighteen entries for anonymous individuals or groups, and numerous one-sentence (often surname only) entries from aviation school class lists or membership lists of flying clubs. A 63-page introduction with tables comparing the numbers and percentages of supervisory and other Jews in the NKVD in 1936–37 with 1938 and 1939 immediately following the Great Terror purges precedes the biographies of Jewish NKVD operatives (71–73) during that period. Author, compiler, and editor M.A. Nekrasova's historical introduction to this comprehensive alphabetical encyclopedia of Russian ceramic art precedes the scholarly biobibliographies of individual ceramicists and their art, mostly with accompanying portraits, and signed essays with abundant illustrations on every aspect of the art.

The basic European resources are included as well as international and English-language sites, and the book can serve as a textbook on search strategies and techniques. The introduction includes 693 footnotes, describes the interwar state of the Polish legal community, and analyzes with a number of statistical tables the status of the imprisoned lawyers. Sponsored by her institution and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, this invaluable resource describes the basic bibliographic and archival sources in the field, as well as motif and tale-type indices, encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries, and folkloric data in historical and subject dictionaries. The author states that most of the titles are available in the Jewish Historical Museum and National Library of Serbia in Belgrade and the library of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad.

Many of the approximately 1,000 articles in this standard reference work deal with the hydrology, hydrography, and geography of the Baltic Sea, but there are also numerous articles about individual ships, sea battles, treaties, historical events, and personalities, with some emphasis on Russian naval officers and operations during both World Wars.Bibliographic control of publications on regional studies is a longstanding responsibility of the Russian National Library and this retrospective de visu bibliography includes 3,644 partly annotated entries for selected books, periodical articles, and articles in collections, dissertation abstracts, and reviews (regardless of date) about the history, theory, and current state of regional studies for a twenty-year period.Fulfilling their traditional responsibility for covering Russian regional bibliography, librarians at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg have produced this useful guide and bibliography of regional encyclopedias, including illustrations and portraits, with 48 pages of color plates covering each encyclopedia. 560 printed and electronic works are included with author and title indexes.First compiled in electronic format, a total of 23,000 citations are in database.