Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Russkoe zarubezh’e: Zolotaia kniga emigratsii; Pervaia tret’ XX veka; Entsiklopedicheskii biograficheskii slovar’. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1997.

Shmaglit, R. G. Beloe dvizhenie: 900 biografii krupneishikh predstavitelei russkogo voennogo zarubezhia. Moscow: Zebra, 2006.

Shukman, Harold, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.

Velikaia Oktiabr’skaia Sotsialisticheskaia Revoliutsiia: Entsiklopediia. Moscow: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1987.

Voennaia entsiklopediia. Moscow. Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1997–.

Volodikhin, D. M., and S. V. Volkov, eds. Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii: Entsiklopediia katastrofy. Moscow: Sibirskii tsiriul’nik, 2010.

Wieczynski, Joseph L., et al., eds. The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. 59 vols + supplements. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1976–1996 (volumes from 1993 entitled The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History).

Zaleskii, K. A. Imperiia Stalina: Biograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar’. Moscow; Veche, 2000.

http://www.hrono.ru/: An invaluable historical encyclopedia with particular focus on Russia (in Russian).

http://www.mochola.org/: Encyclopedia of materials on the emigration (in Russian).

http://www.istorypedia.com/: Historical encyclopedia with special focus on things military and the Cossacks (in Russian).

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Russia_war.htmclass="underline" A detailed guide to Russian (and other) civil war polities (in English).

http://rusk.ru/voinstvo.php: Military history site with extensive coverage of the civil war (in English).

http://www.marxists.org/: The Marxist Internet Archive (in English).

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/index.htm: Encyclopedia of Marxism (in English).

http://militera.lib.ru/: Collection of texts on military history, including many key sources on the Russian Civil War (in Russian).

http://pygmy-wars.50megs.com/: A site devoted to conflicts in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1923 (in English).

http://www.dk1868.ru/history/: Extensive library of published materials on the civil war (in Russian).

http://www.colisee.org: Collection of articles and materials relating to the history of states of Eurasia (in French).

http://www.onwar.com/: General military history site (in English).

http://fotw.net/flags/index.htmclass="underline" Flags of the world (in English).

http://www.nivestnik.ru/index.htmclass="underline" All issues of the Novyi istoricheskii vestnik, with many articles on the civil war (in Russian).

http://slovari.yandex.ru: A portal to a collection of encyclopedias (in Russian).

http://www.historyofwar.org/index.htmclass="underline" Encyclopedia of military history (in English).

http://www.vojnik.org/civilwar: Extensive collection of materials on the civil war (in Russian).

http://www.rkka.ru/maps1940.htm: Maps detailing military activity during the civil war (in Russian).

http://www.eleven.co.il/: Encyclopedia of Jewish affairs (in Russian).

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.htmclass="underline" Huge library of materials on Jewish affairs (in English).

http://www.rusrevolution.info/index.shtml?about: Diverse collection of materials on the Russian Revolution and Civil War (in Russian).

http://eng.plakaty.ru/: Russian posters site, with many military and propaganda works from the civil war (in English).

http://www.sobiratel.net/zasluga/Russia/Russia.htm: Russian/Soviet medals, including sections on the RSFSR and the Whites (in English and Russian).

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, the most complete reference work on its subject.

Bibliographies

Arans, David,, ed. How We Lost the Civil War: Bibliography of Russian émigré Memoirs of the Russian Revolution, 1917–1921. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1998.

Ganin, A. V. Korpus ofitserov Generalʹnogo shtaba v gody Grazhdanskoi voiny, 1917–1922: Spravochnye materialy. Moscow: Russkii putʹ, 2009.

Grierson, Philip. Books on Soviet Russia, 1917–1942: A Bibliography and Guide to Reading. London: Methuen, 1943.

Mehnert, Klaus. Die Sovet-Union 1917–32: Systematische, mit Kommentaren versehne Bibliographie. Königsberg: Ost-Europa-Verlag, 1933.

Smele, Jonathan D., ed. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1921: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Continuum, 2003.

Victoroff-Toproff, V. Russica et Sovietica: Bibliographie des ouvrages parus en français de 1917 à 1930 inclus relatifs à ʹU.R.S.S. Saint-Cloud: éditions documentaries et bibliographiques, 1931.

http://ebsees.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/simple_search.php: European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (in English).

Historiographical Works

Azovtsev, N. N., and V. P. Naumov. “Study of the History of the Military Intervention and Civil War in the USSR.” Soviet Studies in History 10, no. 4 (1971–1972): 327–60.

Bordiugov, G. A., A. I. Ushakov, and V. Iu. Churakov. Beloe delo: Ideologiia osnovy rezhimy vlasti. Moscow: Russkii Mir, 1998.

Davies, R. W. “Lenin, the Civil War and After.” In Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, edited by R. W. Davies, 115–26. London: Macmillan, 1989.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “New Perspectives on the Civil War.” 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, 3–23. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Goldin, V. N. Rossiia v grazhdanskoi voine: Ocherki noveishei istoriografii (vtoraia polivina 1980-x–nachalo 90-x gg). Arkhangelʹsk: Borges, 2000.

Keep, John. “Social Aspects of the Russian Revolutionary Era (1917–1923) in Recent English-Language Historiography.” East European Quarterly 24, no. 2 (1990): 159–84.

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.