Steele, Jonathan. Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy. Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-674-26837-1. с. 216. Посетен на 3 December 2016. Several centuries later, when Moscow became the main colonizing force, Ukrainians were given a label which they were to find insulting. [...] The Russians of Muscovy [...] were the 'Great Russians'. Ukraine was called 'Little Russia', or Malorus. Although the phrase was geographical in origin, it could not help being felt by Ukrainian nationalists as demeaning.
Соловьёв, Александр Васильевич. Великая, Малая и Белая Русь // Вопросы истории 7. Москва, Академия наук СССР, 1947. с. 24-38. Архивиран от оригинала на 2018-05-16.
Соловьёв, Александр Васильевич. Великая, Малая и Белая Русь // Вопросы истории 7. Москва, Академия наук СССР, 1947. с. 24-38. Архивиран от оригинала на 2018-05-16.
