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Swain, Geoffrey. “Russia’s Garibaldi: The Revolutionary Life of Mikhail Artemevich Muraviev.” Revolutionary Russia 11, no. 2 (1998): 54–81.

Tsvetkov, V. Zh., ed. Izhevsko-Votkinskoe vosstanie 1918 g. Moscow: Posev, 2000.

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http://libcom.org/: Libertarian site with extensive coverage of anarchism and anarchists in Russia (in English).

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http://socialist.memo.ru/: An immense site devoted to Russian socialists and anarchists and their fates post-October (in Russian).

http://www.chernov.h12.ru/: A site devoted to the life and work of V. M. Chernov (in Russian).

http://www.makhno.ru/makhno/: Huge archive of materials on Nestor Makhno and the Makhnovtsy (in Russian).

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/HOME.html: Translation of a 1921 anarchist publication, Pravda o Kronshtadt (“The Truth About Kronstadt!”) and other materials relating to the rebellion (in English).

The Legacy of the Civil Wars

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Lewin, Moshe. “The Civil War: Dynamics and Legacy.” In Party, State and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History, edited by Diane Koenker, William G. Rosenberg, and Ronald G. Suny, 399–423. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

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About the Author

Dr. Jonathan D. Smele is senior lecturer in modern European history at Queen Mary, University of London, where he has been teaching since 1992, having previously lectured at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen. His research interests focus on the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Russian foreign policy, the history of Siberia, and particularly the expansive “Russian” Civil Wars of the revolutionary era. With David N. Collins he edited Kolchak i Sibir′: dokumenty i issledovaniia (1988, 2 vols.), and with Anthony Heywood he edited The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (2005). He is also the author of Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918–1920 (1996) and The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World (2015), and compiled The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1921: An Annotated Bibliography (2003). From 2002 to 2011, he was editor of Revolutionary Russia, the journal of the long-standing Study Group on the Russian Revolution. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.