Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Kenez, Peter. “Western Historiography of the Russian Civil War.” In Essays in Russian and East European History: Festschrift in Honor of Edward C. Thaden, edited by Leo Schelbert and Nick Ceh, 197–215. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995.

Smele, Jonathan D. “Russia: Civil War, 1917–1920.” In Reader’s Guide to Military History, edited by Charles Messenger, 510–15. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

Ushakov, A. I. Istoriia grazhdanskoi voiny v literature russkogo zarubezhʹia: Opyt izucheniia. Moscow: Rossiia molodaia, 1993.

Documentary Collections

Akhapin, Y., comp. First Decrees of Soviet Power: Acts of Legislation, November 1917–July 1918. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1970.

Brovkin, Vladimir, ed. Dear Comrades: Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1991.

Bunyan, James, ed. Intervention, Civil War and Communism in Russia: Documents and Materials. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936.

Bunyan, James, and H. H. Fisher, eds. The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–1918: Documents and Materials. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1934.

Butt, V. P., A. Brian Murphy, and Geoffrey R. Swain, eds. The Russian Civil War: Documents from the Soviet Archives. London: Macmillan, 1996.

Daly, Jonathan, and Leonid Trofimov, eds. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914–1922: A Documentary History. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2009.

Kowalski, Ronald I., ed. The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921. London: Routledge, 1997.

Meijer, Jan M., ed. The Trotsky Papers, 1917–1922, 2 Vols. The Hague/London/ Paris: International Instituut Voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 1964–1970.

Murphy, A. Brian, ed. The Russian Civil War: Primary Sources. London: Macmillan, 2000.

Piontkovskii, S., ed. Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii. Khrestomatiia (1918–1921 gg.) Moscow: Kommunisticheskiı universitet, 1925.

Pipes, Richard, ed. The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.

Wade, Rex A., ed. Documents of Soviet History. Vol. 1, The Triumph of Bolshevism, 1917–1919. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1991.

———, ed. Documents of Soviet History. Vol. 2, Triumph and Retreat, 1920–1922. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1993.

———, ed. Documents of Soviet History. Vol. 3, Lenin’s Heirs, 1923–1925. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1995.

———, ed. Documents of Soviet History. Vol. 4, Stalin Grasps Power, 1926–1928. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1998.

http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page: The World War One Document Archive (in English).

http://revsoc.org/: Site of the Union of Revolutionary Socialists, including many historical documents (in English, Russian, and other languages).

Surveys and General Secondary Works

Anishev, A. I. Ocherki istorii grazhdanskoi voiny, 1917–1920. Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1925.

Azovtsev, N. N., et al., eds. Grazhdanskaia voina v SSSR. 2 vols. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1980–86.

Bradley, John. Civil War in Russia, 1917–1920. London: Batsford, 1975.

Brovkin, Vladimir, ed. The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Bubnov, A. S., S. S. Kamenev, and R. P. Eidman, eds. Grazhdanskaia voina, 1918–1921. 3 vols. Moscow: Voennyi vestnik, 1928–1930.

Bullock, David. The Russian Civil War, 1918–22. Oxford: Osprey, 2008.

Carr, E. H. A History of Soviet Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–1923. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 1950–1978.

Chamberlin, William H. The Russian Revolution. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1935.