My daughter is undertaking her History assignement and she needs
someone who can read russian to allocate russian newspapers dated
April 15-20 1961 and send the articles that are in the newspaper about
the US invasion and any Russian activity within Cuba around this time.

Australian Libraries do not have Russian newspapers dating to this
time. The articles can be emailed or faxed

Thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 21 Feb 2004 07:37 PST

Dear Sue, 

First of all, since we are not permitted to engage in contact with
users outside Google, I will find a way to post the information as an
answer in this site.

Second, my library has Russian and other newspapers from the East
Bloc. However, I don't think I'll be able to reach them before
tuesday, and more time should be considered shall I have to scan the
information or search each band to find the one or more page I need.

How soon do you need it? Would wednesday be too late? 

In the meanwhile, I found in the German Historical Museium several
interesting pictures:
Sand from Giron beach, Cuba 1978
Souvenir for participants in the World Youth and Students' Festival in
Havana in 1978
Sand and plastic
<http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/souvenirs/so001244.htm> 

 
Uniform jacket
USA/Cuba 1961
Gift from Raoul Castro to GDR ambassador Joachim Hermann
Leinen
<http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/souvenirs/so000913.htm>

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 24 Feb 2004 00:45 PST

Dear Sue, 

How much is it exactly that you need? It could be that there's
considerable amount of material out there. Do you only need headlines?
Translation of the whole article?

You could clarify questions here (and not in the comments section) by
using the "CLARIFY" button.

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Clarification of Question by sue59-ga on 24 Feb 2004 03:47 PST

Hi

The situation is that there will not be alot of articles from April
1961 in russian newspapers as generally the policy was not to comment
on it.

Thos you do find, we need the article, you do not have to translate as
we can do that here.

However, pelase collect as many articles as possible on Russians'
response to the Cuban crisis

Thanks
Sue

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Clarification of Question by sue59-ga on 20 Mar 2004 13:52 PST

Thankyou for a;; your help

Any is greatly appreciated and understand I may have to pay for a student to assist

Thanks

You might want to search the English language versions of Tass and
Pravda from that era. They should be available in libraries. Itar-Tass
is also on the WWW.

hlabadie-ga

I do not need the answers before march so your time line is fine

The reason for the Russian newspaper needs is that the assignment is
based upon each countires response to the Bay of Pigs invasion by the
USA through the media. In other words "what they told the people". WE
have managed to get the info from Cuba and USa but Russia is hard

Our library is miising the period between 1950-1969

I am not sure how to access the others.

Our library did recommend www.newspaers.com, however we dont speak
russian to know what the newspaper is saying

Thanks for your quick response

Sue

The problem with the site www.newspapers.com, is that it only contains
links (not always updated) to the newspapers. It doesn't insure that
these newspapers would have an online archive, that reaches those
years (which is pretty rare online).

Understand the limitations with www.newspapers.com. Thanks. I look
forward to your response

Sue

Hi 

Ar you proceeding with this research 

Thanks
Sue

Hello sue59-ga:

I'm just letting you know I'm contacting some universities that have
Russian Studies departments to inquire if they have such materials,
and if they can match you up with a professor or student who could
search the archives on your behalf.

If and when I hear back, I'll let you know. You would have to pay such
a student a fee for doing the research, but this may be about the only
hope of finding the material you need! At least it's an option for you
to consider.

Regards,
nanclynn-ga

Hi Sue:

This question has expired, so you may want to re-post it, noting that
it's a re-post of expired question at:
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=309107#a

If you want me, specifically, to continue working on it, you can put
"For nancylynn-ga" in the title of the question, if you'd like.

I have made contact with a retired professor of Russian studies who is
arranging to put me in touch with students who can successfully do
this research.

He also noted that finding these materials on the Internet is likely
impossible; so, this will have to be done as an on-site
library/archive search.

So, if you go ahead and re-post this (it will cost you 50 cents), I'll
attempt to contact students who can handle this assignment.

Regards,
nancylynn-ga