Data Set
129
The REP database – Russian Elites and Politics under Yeltsin and Putin
A collection of media, expert and academic reports and official documents
Version 1.0, published: March 31, 2025.
Description
This literature database was initiated as part of the project "The Role of Regional and Economic Elites in the Process of Economic Transition. The Societal Context of Economic Change in Russia" at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies (BIOst) in Cologne (1997-2000). The responsible head of the project was Hans-Henning Schröder (BIOst). The project was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
The project built up a documentation that included newspaper articles, gray literature (thinktanks), official records, and scientific publications, hardcopies of which can be viewed at the FSO in Bremen. The documentation contains publications from the years 1991-2024. The bibliographic data (1200 documents) were recorded in a catalogue. The thesaurus allows you to search by thematic criteria, and it is also possible to search by persons or organizations, as well as for a particular author or publication date and a number of other criteria.
This online data collection contains the complete catalogue as an XML file (“REP-Katalog.xml”). In the XML file, all database fields are marked with < > so that an automatic import into a database program is possible. The complete thesaurus, which contains all the terms used to describe the individual documents, is also part of the data collection as a separate text file (“REP Thesaurus.pdf”).
The original publications listed in the database are archived at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. The contact person is Heiko Pleines (pleines@uni-bremen.de).