Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

General works on Russian history which have significant context for Russian history in general or content about this bibliography's timeframe of history.

• Acton, E. (1995). Russia: The tsarist and Soviet legacy (2nd ed.). Longman.^[2]
• Ascher, A. (2017). Russia: A short history (3rd rev. ed.). Oneworld Publications.^[3]
• Auty, R., & Obolensky, D. D. (Eds.). (1976–1981). Companion to Russian studies (3 vols.). Cambridge University Press.
• Bartlett, R. P. (2005). A history of Russia (Macmillan Essential Histories). Palgrave Macmillan.^[4][5]
• Billington, J. H. (1966). The icon and the axe: An interpretive history of Russian culture. Alfred A. Knopf.^[6]
• Blackwell, W. L. (1994). The industrialization of Russia: A historical perspective (3rd ed.). Harlan Davidson.^[7]
• Blum, J. (1961). Lord and peasant in Russia from the ninth to the nineteenth century. Princeton University Press.^[8][9]
• Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia takes shape: Patterns of integration from the Middle Ages to the present. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.^[10][11]
• Borrero, M. (2004). Russia: A reference guide from the Renaissance to the present. Facts on File.^[12]
• Boterbloem, K. (2018). A history of Russia and its empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.^[13]
• Boterbloem, K. (2020). Russia as empire: Past and present. Reaktion Books.^[14]
• Breyfogle, N., Schrader, A., & Sunderland, W. (Eds.). (2007). Peopling the Russian periphery: Borderland colonization in Eurasian history. Routledge.^[15]
• Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A concise history of Russia. Cambridge University Press.^{[16][17][18][19]}
• Chatterjee, C. (2022). Russia in world history: A transnational approach. Bloomsbury Academic.^[20]
• Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The structure of Russian history: Interpretive essays. Random House.
• Christian, D. (1998–2018). A history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell.^{[21][22][23][24]}
• Clarkson, J. D. (1969). A history of Russia (2nd ed.). Random House.^[25][26]
• Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian economy: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.
• Dmytryshyn, B. (Ed.). (1991). Medieval Russia: A source book, 850–1700 (3rd ed.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston.^[27][28]
• Dmytryshyn, B. (1977). A history of Russia. Prentice-Hall.^[29][30]
• Dukes, P. (1998). A history of Russia: Medieval, modern, contemporary, c. 882–1996 (3rd ed.). Duke University Press.^{[31][32][33][34][35]}
• Evtuhov, C., Goldfrank, D., Hughes, L., & Stites, R. (2004). A history of Russia: Peoples, legends, events, forces. Houghton Mifflin.^[36]
• Figes, O. (2022). The story of Russia. Metropolitan Books.^[37]
• Forsyth, J. (1992). A history of the peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony 1581–1990. Cambridge University Press.^{[38][39][40][41][42]}
• Freeze, G. L. (Ed.). (2009). Russia: A history (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.^[43]
• Gleason, A. (Ed.). (2009). A companion to Russian history (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History). Wiley-Blackwell.^[44][45][46]
• Grousset, R. (1970). The empire of the steppes: A history of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.^[c]). Rutgers University Press.^[47]
• Hosking, G. (1997). Russia: People and empire, 1552–1917. Harvard University Press.^[48][49][50]
• Hosking, G. (2001). Russia and the Russians: A history. Harvard University Press.^[51]
• Kochan, L., & Abraham, R. (1983). The making of modern Russia (2nd ed.). Penguin Books.^[52][53]
• Lieven, D. (2000). Empire: The Russian empire and its rivals. John Murray.^[54][55]
• Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge history of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge University Press.^{[d][56][57][58]}
• Longworth, P. (2005). Russia: The once and future empire from pre-history to Putin. St. Martin's Press.
• Mazour, A. G. (1962). Russia: Tsarist and communist. Van Nostrand.^[59][60]
• Moss, W. G. (1997–2005). A history of Russia (2 vols.; 2nd ed., 2003–2005). Anthem Press.
• Pares, B. (1953). A history of Russia (definitive ed.). Alfred A. Knopf.
• Pipes, R. (1974). Russia under the old regime. Charles Scribner's Sons.^{[61][62][63][64]}
• Poe, M. T. (2003). The Russian moment in world history. Princeton University Press.^{[65][66][67][68]}
• Riasanovsky, N. V., & Steinberg, M. D. (2025). A history of Russia (10th ed.). Oxford University Press.^[69]
• Shubin, D. H. (2005). A history of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). Algora Publishing.
• Sumner, B. H. (1943). A short history of Russia. Reynal & Hitchcock.^[70]
• Vernadsky, G. (1943–1969). A history of Russia (5 vols.). Yale University Press.^[e]
• Vernadsky, G. (1961). A history of Russia (6th rev. ed.). Yale University Press.
• Ward, C. J., & Thompson, J. M. (2021). Russia: A historical introduction from Kievan Rus' to the present (9th ed.). Routledge.
• Wren, M. C., & Stults, T. (2009). The course of Russian history (5th ed.). Waveland Press.^{[71][72][73][74]}

These works contain significant overviews of the Revolution and Civil War era.

• Figes, O. (2015). Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991. New York: Metropolitan Books.
• Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B. (1986). Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York: Simon and Schuster.^[75][76]
• Hosking, G. (1987). The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.^[77][78][79]
• Kort, M. G. (2019). The Soviet Colossus (8th Edition). London: Routledge.^[80]
• Kenez, P. (2017). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Lewin, M. (2016). The Soviet Century. (G. Elliot, Ed.). New York: Verso.^[81][82]
• Malia, M. (1995). Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917-1991. New York: Free Press.^[83][84]
• McAuley, M. (1992). Soviet Politics 1917-1991. Oxford University Press.^[85]
• McCauley, M. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (Longman History Of Russia). London: Routledge.^[86][87]
• Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991 (3rd Edition). London: Arkana Publishing.
• Suny, R. G. (1997). The Soviet Experiment: Russia, The USSR, and the Successor States. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[f][88][89]
• Suny, R. G. (2013). The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.^[90]

• Beevor, A. (2022). Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921. New York: Viking Press.
• Brenton, T. (2017). Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.^[91]
• Carr, E. H. (1950–53). A History of Soviet Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–1923. In 3 volumes. London: Macmillan.
• Chamberlin, W. H. (1935). The Russian Revolution. In two volumes. New York: Macmillan.
• Daniels, R. V. (1972). The Russian Revolution. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.^[92][93]
• Dowler, W. (2010). Russia in 1913. DeKalb: DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.^[94][95]
• Engelstein, L. (2017). Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921. New York: Oxford University Press.^[96][97]
• Figes, O. (1997). A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution. New York: Viking Press.^[98][99]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (2017). The Russian Revolution. (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.^{[100][101][102]}
• Lee, S. J. (2003). Lenin and Revolutionary Russia. London: Routledge.
• Kowalski, R. I. (1997). The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921 London: Routledge.^[103][104]
• Lewin, M. (2005). Lenin's Last Struggle. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.^[105]
• Lieven, D. (2016). The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution. New York: Penguin Books.^[106][107]
• Lincoln, W. B. (1986). Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918. New York: Simon and Schuster.^[108]
• Malone, R. (2004). Analysing the Russian Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Marples, D. R. (2014). Lenin's Revolution: Russia, 1917–1921. London: Routledge.
• McMeekin, S. (2017). The Russian Revolution: A New History. New York: Basic Books.
• Miéville, C. (2017). October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. New York: Verso.
• Pipes, R. (1990). The Russian Revolution. New York: Knopf.
• Rabinowich, A. (1968). Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• ———. (1976). The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• ———. (2007). The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• ———. (2026). The Bolsheviks Survive: Petrograd 1919. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Read, C. (1996). From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.^[109]
• ———. (2013). War and Revolution in Russia, 1914–22. London: Macmillan.^[110]
• Schapiro, L. B. (1984). The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Origins of Modern Communism. New York: Basic Books.^[111]
• Service, R. W. (1991). The Russian Revolution 1900–1927. London: Macmillan.^[g]
• Smith, S. A. (2017). Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928. New York: Oxford University Press.^[112][113]
• Smele, J. (2016). The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. New York: Oxford University Press.^{[h][114][115][116]}
• Ulam, A. B. (1965). The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia. New York: Macmillan.^[117][118]
• Wade, R. A. (1969).The Russian Search For Peace, February - October 1917. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press^[119][120]
• ———. (2000). The Russian Revolution, 1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Williams, B. (2021). Late Tsarist Russia, 1881–1913 (Routledge Studies in the History of Russian and Eastern Europe). New York: Routledge.^[121]
• Zygar, M. (2017). The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917. New York: PublicAffairs.^[122]

• Anweiler, O. (1975). The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils, 1905-1921. New York: Pantheon Books.^[123][124]
• Argenbright, R. (1998). The Soviet Agitational Vehicle: State Power on the Social Frontier. Political Geography, 17(3), 253–272.
• Badcock, S. (2007). Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[125]
• Bettelheim, C., & Pearce, B. (1976). Class Struggles in the USSR: First Period 1917-1923. New York: Monthly Review Press.^{[126][127][128]}
• Borrero, M. (2003). Hungry Moscow: Scarcity and Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921. New York: Peter Lang.^[129]
• Brovkin, V. N. (1994). Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918–1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• ———. (1997). The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^{[130][131][132]}
• Chary, F. (1975). The Russian Masses in the October Revolution 1917. European Labor and Working Class History, 7 (6–7).
• Engel, B. (1997). Not by Bread Alone: Subsistence Riots in Russia during World War I. The Journal of Modern History, 69(4), 696–721.
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1971). The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[133][134]
• ———. (1992). The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.^{[i][135][136][137]}
• ———. (1988). The Bolsheviks' Dilemma: Class, Culture, and Politics in the Early Soviet Years. Slavic Review, 47(4), 599–613.
• Fitzpatrick, S., Rabinowich, A., & Stites, R. (1995). Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^{[138][139][140][141]}
• Frame, M., Kolonit︠s︡kiĭ, B. I., Marks, S. G., & Stockdale, M. K. (2014). Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914–1922. Vol 1: Popular Culture, the Arts, and Institutions/Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914–1922. Vol. 2: Political Culture, Identities, Mentalities, and Memory. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers.^[142]
• Gleason, A. (1989). Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^[143][144]
• Galmarini, M. (2016). The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.^[145]
• Keep, J. L. H. (1976). The Russian Revolution. A Study in Mass Mobilization. New York: Norton.^{[146][147][148]}
• Koenker, D. (1985). Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War. The Journal of Modern History, 57(3), 424–450.
• Koenker, D., Rosenberg, W. G., & Suny, R. G. (1989). Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^[149]
• Lih, L. T. (1990). Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921. Berkeley: University of California Press.^[150][151]
• Lorimer, F. (1979). The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press.^[152][153]
• Marot, J. E. (1994). Class Conflict, Political Competition and Social Transformation: Critical Perspectives on the Social History of the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary Russia, 7(2), 111–163.
• Mawdsley, E., & White, S. (2004). The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[154][155]
• Palat, M. V. K. (2001). Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.^[156][157]
• Raleigh, D. (1999). Co-optation Amid Repression: The Revolutionary Communists in Saratov Province 1918-1920. Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 40(4), 625–656.
• Rosenberg, W. G. (1988). Identities, Power, and Social Interactions in Revolutionary Russia. Slavic Review, 47(1), 21–28.
• ———. (1990). Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.^[158]
• Sanborn, J. (2005). Unsettling the Empire: Violent Migrations and Social Disaster in Russia during World War I. The Journal of Modern History, 77(2), 290–324.
• Service, R. W. (1999). Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution. New York: Macmillan.^{[159][160][161]}
• Siegelbaum, L. H. (1994). Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[162][163]
• Stites, R. (1992). Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[164][165]
• Smith, D. (1983). Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. New York: Picador Macmillan.^[166]
• Steinberg, M. D. (2018). Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.^[167]
• Stites, R. (1988). Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.^[168][169]
• Wheatcroft, S. (1983). Famine and Epidemic Crises in Russia, 1918-1922: The Case of Saratov. Annales De Démographie Historique, (1983), 329–352.
• Williams, C. (1993). The 1921 Russian Famine: Centre and Periphery Responses. Revolutionary Russia, 6(2), 277–314.

• Bailes, K. E. (1977). Alexei Gastev and the Soviet Controversy over Taylorism, 1918-24. Soviet Studies, 29(3), 373–394.
• Ball, A. M. (1990). Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929. Berkeley: University of California Press.^[283][284]
• Berkhin, I. B. (1994). So Just What Is "War Communism"?. Russian Studies in History, 33(1), 8–26.
• Buldakov, V. P., & Kabanov, V. V. (1994). War Communism: Ideology and Social Development. Russian Studies in History, 33(1), 27–51.
• Coopersmith, J. (2016). The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.^[285][286]
• Davies, R. W. (1991). From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• ———. (2008). The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union: 1913-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Fitzpatrick, S., Rabinowich, A., & Stites, R. (1995). Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^{[138][139][140][141]}
• Gatrell, P. and Lewis, R. (1992). Russian and Soviet Economic History. The Economic History Review, 45(4), pp. 743–754.
• Gupta, D. (1979). Classes and Class Struggles in Russia under NEP: Part One. Social Scientist, 8(1), 3–19. Part Two. Social Scientist, 8(2), 30–50.
• Heywood, A. (2009). Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[287][288][289]}
• Himmer, R. (1994). The Transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy: An Analysis of Stalin's Views. The Russian Review, 53(4), 515–529.
• Lih, L. (1986). Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism. Slavic Review, 45(4), 673–688.
• ———. (2000). Bukharin's "Illusion": War Communism and the Meaning of NEP. Russian History, 27(4), 417–459.
• Malik, H. (2018). Bankers & Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.^[290]
• Malle, S. (1985). The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918–1921. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[291][292][293]}
• Medeubayev, E. (2016). Political, Interparty and Moral Crisis of the "War Communism" Policy in Kazakhstan 1920-1922. Oriente Moderno, 96(1), 132–155.
• Oppenheim, S. (1973). The Supreme Economic Council 1917-21. Soviet Studies, 25(1), 3–27.
• Patenaude, B. M. (1995). Peasants into Russians: The Utopian Essence of War Communism. The Russian Review, 54(4), 552–570.
• Roberts, P. (1970). "War Communism": A Re-examination. Slavic Review, 29(2), 238–261.
• Roosa, R. (1972). Russian Industrialists and 'State Socialism', 1906-17. Soviet Studies, 23(3), 395–417.
• Smith, S. A. (2017). Chapter 5: War Communism. In Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928. New York: Oxford University Press.^[112][113]
• Suvorova, L. N. (1994). Behind the Facade of "War Communism": Political Power and the Market Economy. Russian Studies in History, 33(1), 72–88.
• Szamuely, L. (1971). Major Features of the Economy and Ideology of War Communism. Acta Oeconomica, 7(2), 143–160.
• Traub, R. (1978). Lenin and Taylor: The Fate of "Scientific Management" in the (Early) Soviet Union. Telos, 37(1), 82–92.
• Veselov, S. V. (1994). The Cooperative Movement and Soviet Rule: The Period of "War Communism". Russian Studies in History, 33(1), 52–71.

• Ascher, A. (1988, 1994). The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray (Vol. 1)^[294][295] and Authority Restored (Vol. 2).^[296][297] Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
• ———. (2004). ˜The Revolution of 1905: A Short History. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.^{[298][299][300]}
• Bushnell, J. (1985). The Revolution of 1905-06 in the Army: The Incidence and Impact of Mutiny. Russian History, 12(1), 71–94.
• Edelman, R. (1985). Rural Proletarians and Peasant Disturbances: The Right Bank Ukraine in the Revolution of 1905. The Journal of Modern History, 57(2), 248–277.
• Fischer, . W. F., & Freeze, G. L. (2013). The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective: Identities, Peripheries, and the Flow of Ideas. Bloomington: Slavica.^[301]
• Galai, S. (1976). The Role of the Union of Unions in the Revolution of 1905. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 24(4), 512–525.
• Harcave, S. (1965). First Blood: The Russian Revolution of 1905. London: Bodley Head.^[302]
• Harison, C. (2007). The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Shifting of the Revolutionary Tradition. History and Memory, 19(2), 5–42.
• Kaun, A. (1930). Maxim Gorky in the Revolution of 1905. The Slavonic and East European Review, 9(25), 133–148.
• Perrie, M. (2011). The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party: From its Origins through the Revolution of 1905-1907 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[303][304]
• Preobrazhenskii, N. (2006). Little-known Aspects of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Critique, 34(3), 293–314.
• Raun, T. (1984). The Revolution of 1905 in the Baltic Provinces and Finland. Slavic Review, 43(3), 453–467.
• Rawson, D. C. (1992). Rightist Politics in the Revolution of 1905: The Case of Tula Province. Slavic Review, 51(1), 99–116.
• ———. (1995). Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[305]
• Schwarz, S. M. (1967). Russian Revolution of 1905: Worker's Movement and Formation of Bolshevism and Menshevism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.^[306][186]
• Seregny, S. (1988). A Different Type of Peasant Movement: The Peasant Unions in the Russian Revolution of 1905. Slavic Review, 47(1), 51–67.
• Schurer, H. (1961). The Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Origins of German Communism. The Slavonic and East European Review, 39(93), 459–471.
• Siegel, J. (2016). The Russian Revolution of 1905 in the Eyes of Russia's Financiers. Revolutionary Russia, 29(1), 24–42.
• Strauss, H. (1973). Revolutionary Types: Russia in 1905. The Journal of Conflict Resolution. 17(2), 297–316.
• Verner, A. M. (1990). The Crisis of Russian Autocracy: Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.^[307][308]
• Weinberg, R. (1993). The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.^[309][310]
• Yedlin, T. (1975). Maxim Gorky: His Early Revolutionary Activity and His Involvement in the Revolution of 1905. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 17(1), 76–105.

• Argenbright, R. (1991). Red Tsaritsyn: Precursor of Stalinist Terror. Revolutionary Russia, 4(2), 157–183.^[l]
• Böhler, J. (2015). Enduring Violence: The Postwar Struggles in East-Central Europe, 1917-21. Journal of Contemporary History, 50(1), 58–77.
• Courtois, S. (2015). Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Geifman, A. (1993). Thou Shalt Kill. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• ———. (1999). Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
• ———. (2000). Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution. Landham: Rowman & Littlefield.
• ———. (2010). Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
• Gerson, L. D. (1985). The Secret Police in Lenin"s Russia. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
• Gerwarth, R., & Horne, J. (2011). Vectors of Violence: Paramilitarism in Europe after the Great War, 1917–1923. The Journal of Modern History, 83(3), 489–512.
• ———. (2013). War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Gross, J. T. (1988). Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Expanded Edition). Princeton: Princeton University Press.^{[322][323][324]}
• Holquist, P. (1997). Conduct Merciless Mass Terror: Decossackization on the Don, 1919. Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 38(1/2), 127–162.
• ———. (2003). Violent Russia, Deadly Marxism? Russia in the Epoch of Violence, 1905-21. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 4(3), 627–652.
• Kenez, P. (1992). Pogroms and White Ideology in the Russian Civil War. In Klier, J. D. & Lambroza, S. (Eds.), Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History (293–313). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Leggett, G. (1981). The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police. New York: Oxford University Press.^[325][326]
• Lohr, E. (2001). The Russian Army and the Jews: Mass Deportation, Hostages, and Violence during World War I. The Russian Review, 60(3), 404–419.
• Martin, T. (1998). The Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing. The Journal of Modern History, 70(4), 813–861.
• Mayer, A. J. (2000). The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Melancon, M. (2009). Revolutionary Culture in the Early Soviet Republic: Communist Executive Committees versus the Cheka, Fall 1918. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 57(1), 1–22.
• Nation, R. C. (2018). Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.^[327][328]
• Pethybridge, R. (1971). The Bolsheviks and Technical Disorder, 1917-1918. The Slavonic and East European Review, 49(116), 410–424.
• Rummel, R. J. (1990). Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocides and Mass Murders Since 1917. London: Transaction Publishers/Routledge
• Ryan, James. (2012). Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. London: Routledge.
• Sanborn, J. (2010). The Genesis of Russian Warlordism: Violence and Governance during the First World War and the Civil War. Contemporary European History, 19(3), 195–213.
• Verhoeven, C. (2009). The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Wędziagolski, K. & Swietochowski, T. (1988). Boris Savinkov: Portrait of a Terrorist. Clifton: Kingston Press.^[329]
• Wróbel, P. (2003). The Seeds of Violence. The Brutalization of an East European Region, 1917–1921. Journal of Modern European History, 1(1), 125–149.

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• Becker, Seymour. (2004). Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924. London: Routledge.^[330]
• Blank, S. J. (1994). The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin as Commissar of Nationalities, 1917-1924. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.^{[331][332][333]}
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• List of states and regions involved in the Russian Civil War
• Outline of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
• Bibliography of Russian history
• Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
• Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
• Bibliography of Ukrainian history
• Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia
• Bibliography of the history of Poland
• Index of Old Bolsheviks
• Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War