Positions of Soviet secret service in totalitarian Soviet Union by Kristina Burinskaitė

“… The Soviet secret service was one of the main pillars of the totalitarian Soviet system. The Bolshevik party formulated its policy according to communist ideology, where violence and dictatorship were among the most important elements. …”
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The Soviet-British Relations at the Turn of 1917/1918: Key Issues and Untapped Opportunities by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…This paper examines one of the key issues in relations between the Great Britain and the Bolshevik government during the first months after the October period of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917–1922 – participation of the Soviet Russia in military operations on the side of the Entente in the final stage of the First World War. …”
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The functioning of the Crimean Tatar language in the authorities and administration of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the context of the policy of indigenizati... by Grigorii Kondratjuk

“…The use of the Crimean Tatar language in the work of government and management bodies has been studied. The Bolsheviks’ hopes for a proletarian revolution in Western Europe did not come true, and the vector of foreign policy hopes became the East (Turkey and Iran). …”
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The riflemen union in the Independence war by Aušra Jurevičiūtė, Audronė Veilentienė

“…During the war against the Bolsheviks, guerrilla detachments began to appear which, however, had to be united, armed, and employed expediently for the fight against the fighters of General Bermont-Avalov and the approaching soldiers of Poland. …”
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1922 — the best year of the Comintern. Soviet Russia, German communists and the Genoa conference by A. Yu. Vatlin

“…In this context, the paper assesses the role that the Bolshevik leaders envisaged for the Comintern during the preparation and conduct of the Genoa Conference and, particularly, for the policy of the united workers front. …”
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SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS OF NATIONAL HISTORY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE MEMORY POLICY OF THE SOVIET STATE by Isabella S. Ogonovskaya

“…Esakov, presented in the form of an article, materials of the periodical press (the magazines "The Struggle of Classes", "The Marxist Historian", "Teaching History to Schools"), as well as resolutions of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the Ministry of Education / Education of the USSR, considered on the basis of historical-descriptive (as the main), historical-chronological, historical-systemic, historical-comparative, problematic and other methods of historical research. …”
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French diplomats and the military on Soviet Russia and the balance of power in Central-Eastern Europe in 1922 by I. E. Magadeev

“…Under these circumstances, the French elites debated the prospects for the ‘normalization’ of the Bolshevik regime and its incorporation into the Versailles order. …”
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Russian population’s political activities in the first third of the XX century on the example of the Peasant Union creation movement by G. S. Chuwardin, V. G. Ivanov, O. A. Nesterchuk, V. F. Nitsevich, O. A. Sudorgin

“…Peasantry’s political activities were used by the opposition forces, the SRs and Bolsheviks, who proposed a program understandable to the peasant social psychology. …”
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The US liberal political and academic establishment on national-territorial transformation of Russia in 1917–1922 by V. V. Romanov

“…The author notes, that the US policy towards Russia became particularly controversial after the Bolsheviks came to power: the consistent rejection of the Bolshevik reforms was accompanied by the reluctance to incite separatism on the national outskirts out of fear of Russia’s uncontrolled disintegration and its subsequent transformation into a site of endless ethnic conflicts. …”
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Soviet Russia/the USSR and transformation of the international relations system in the first half of the 1920s by E. V. Romanova

“…The author shows that, despite the prominence of ideological conflict in the development of the IR system that emerged after the First World War, continuous tensions both between the defeated and the victors and among the latter urged the political and military elites of Western states to consider the Soviet Russia as a situational partner even under the Bolsheviks rule. The difference in the assessments of the ideological conflict with Soviet Russia, and then with the USSR by Western statesmen stemmed from the difference in their assessments of the prospects for the evolution of the Soviet regime, as well as of the commitment of the Soviet leaders to the idea of the world revolution. …”
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Financing of Preschool Education in Ukraine in 1919–1933: Historical and Legal, Historical and Economic Aspects by S. O. Tkachenko, О. V. Golovko

“…It has been proved that the issue of preschool education with the victory of the Soviet government took its place in the general system of education’s development, which the Bolsheviks began to introduce first in the industrial regions in 1919, and then throughout Ukrainian SSR. …”
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«Our military organization ... continues to consider you as leader»: the letter and report to General M. V. Alekseev about the white underground in Kazan and Tsaritsyn. 1918 by A. V. Ganin

“…Romanovsky, led an underground anti-Bolshevik organization in Kazan. The documents deal with a wide range of significant issues: the activities of the antiBolshevik underground in the Volga, relations between different factions within the anti-Bolshevik camp, and white relations with French representatives…”
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Adventurer in ranks of the secret services? To the biography of Pyotr Vasilyevich Glinko– Appin by D. I. Petin

“…In conclusion, it is emphasized that a foreign officer with an anti-Bolshevik past could not count on successful social adaptation in the conditions of Soviet Russia.…”
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The first Russian newspaper in Shanghai (1918–1921) by Sun Yizhi

“…This is why the Editor-in-chief Chen Youren hadn’t notice that there were a large number of anti-Bolshevik elements in his Kuomintang newspaper.…”
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Under pressure of two dictatorships: Mensheviks of Urals and TransUrals in first months of A. V. Kolchak’s dictatorship by V. V. Moskovkin, I. V. Skipina

“…Persecuted by both the Bolshevik and Kolchak authorities, they were swept from the arena of political struggle…”
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Basmacı İsyanı ve Sovyet-Afgan Sınır Anlaşmazlığı (1925-1926) by Mehmet Erkan KILLIOĞLU

“…After the 1917 October Revolution, the Bolshevik administration in Turkestan was not accepted by the local population. …”
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«To supplement the characteristics of the domestic and foreign policy of the Kolchak government in Siberia»: an urgent secret letter from Siberian revolutionary committee to the pe... by D. I. Petin

“…The publication introduces into the scientific circulation previously unknown sources about the foreign policy and financial and economic activities of the anti-Bolshevik authorities in the East of Russia in 1918–1920, as well as about departmental storage of documents in the financial authorities of Siberia during the first years of Soviets. …”
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Admiral Kolchak in Omsk: on history of Civil War in Russia and geopolitical redistribution of Europe after First World War by S. V. Novikov

“…The article is devoted to the study of the circumstances of coming to power in the anti-Bolshevik Omsk of Admiral A. V. Kolchak. He concentrated in his hands the executive, legislative, judicial and military power becoming the Supreme Ruler of Russia and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. …”
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«Omsk group» in exile in Manchuria by M. V. Krotova

“…Based on unpublished sources and emigrant memoirs, the work analyzes the issue of social adaptation to the conditions of emigration in Manchuria by representatives of the «Omsk group», which consisted of former members of the anti-Bolshevik Siberian governments during the Civil War. …”
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White pages of biography of Marshal of the Soviet Union L. A. Govorov by A. V. Ganin

“…Kolchak in July 1919, the fact of voluntary admission to the service in the White Autumn of 1918 and other details of his combat path in the anti-Bolshevik camp…”
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