Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, February 1917–April 1918. London: Macmillan, 1978.

———. “The Soldiers and Sailors.” In Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution, edited by Robert Service, 103–19. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Mayzel, Matitiahu. Generals and Revolutionaries: The Russian General Staff during the Revolution—A Study in the Transformation of a Military Elite. Osnabruck, Germany: Biblio-Verlag, 1979.

Nekrasov, George. North of Gallipoli: The Black Sea Fleet at War, 1914–1917. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 1992.

Nelson, Harold Walter. “The Military and the Revolution, February–June 1917.” In Leon Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection, 93–107. London: Frank Cass, 1988.

O’Rourke, Shane. Warriors and Peasants: The Don Cossacks in Late Imperial Russia. London: Macmillan, 2000.

Ray, Oliver Allen. “The Imperial Russian Army Officer.” Political Science Quarterly 76, no. 4 (1961): 576–92.

Sanborn, Joshua A. Drafting the Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Saul, Norman. E. Sailors in Revolt: The Russian Baltic Fleet in 1917. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.

Steinberg, John W. All the Tsar’s Men: Russia’s General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898–1914. Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press, 2010.

Stoff, Laurie S. They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2006.

Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914–1917. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.

———. “The Historical Background of the Red Army.” In Soviet Military Power and Significance, edited by John Erickson and E. J. Feuchtwanger, 3–18. London: Macmillan, 1979.

Van Dyke, Carl. Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832–1914. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Volkov, S. V. Ofitsery armeiskoi kavalerii: Opyt martirologo. Moscow: Russkii putʹ, 2004.

———. Ofitsery rossiiskoi gvardii. Moscow: Russkii putʹ, 2002.

———. Russkii ofitserskii korpus. Moscow: Voen. Izd.-vo, 1993.

———. Tragediia russkogo ofitserstva. Moscow: Izd.-vo Fokus, 1999.

White, Howard J. “1917 in the Rear Garrisons.” In Economy and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1860–1930, edited by Linda Edmondson and Peter Waldron, 152–68. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Wildman, Allan K. The End of the Russian Imperial Army. Vol. 1, The Old Army and the Soldiers’ Revolt, March–April 1917. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.

———. The End of the Russian Imperial Army. Vol. 2, The Road to Soviet Power and Peace. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Zalesskii, K. A. Kto byl kto v pervoi mirovoi voine: Biograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovarʹ. Moscow: Astrelʹ, 2003.

http://swolkov.narod.ru/books.htm: Home page of the prolific military historian Sergei Volkov, with texts of many of his books on the imperial Russian Army and the civil war (in Russian).

http://www.grwar.ru/manifest/manifest.html: Multifaceted collection of materials on the Russian Army in the First World War (in Russian).

http://www.regiment.ru/index.htm: Huge library of materials relating to the imperial Russian Army (in Russian).

http://www.firstworldwar.com/: An extensive multimedia, general site on the First World War, with judicious coverage of the Eastern Front.

The Bolsheviks and the Soviet State

Anweiler, Oskar. The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Councils, 1905–1921. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.