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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Motywy historiozoficzne w twórczości Fiodora Stiepuna by Marcin Ziomek

“…In the 1920s, this thinker published a series of ten articles entitled Thoughts on Russia, which attempted to describe the Bolshevik revolution in the broadest possible sociocultural context. …”
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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“…Based on unpublished sources and emigrant memoirs, the work analyzes the issue of social adaptation to the conditions of emigration in Manchuria by representatives of the «Omsk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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«Kolchak and Pepeliaev in prison»: memories of M. A. Grishina-Almazova by D. I. Petin, M. M. Stelmak

“…Grishina-Almazova, is to present the last days of the key leaders of the anti-Bolshevik movement A. V. Kolchak and V. N. Pepelyaev. …”
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Le processus de conversion politique d’un pasteur chaux-de-fonnier au cours de la Grande guerre : quand Jules Humbert-Droz devint un révolutionnaire suisse (1914-1919) by Clément Fontannaz

“…Jules Humbert Droz is no longer a mere socialist and anti-militarist militant, but becomes, in the eyes of the state, of moderate socialists, and of a section of the population, an agent of the Bolshevik subversion and an actor in the dissemination of revolutionary ideas in Switzerland. …”
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POSSIBILITIES AND APPROACHES OF TEACHING OF HISTORY OF RUSSIA TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (THROUGH THE EXAMPLE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALS ON THE AGRARIAN QUESTION AND OF THE RUSSIAN SOCI... by Sergei N. Folomeev

“…For a comprehensive and balanced study of the mentioned topics the author suggests to introduce to the students all the groups of recommended sources - the classics of Marxism, of the representatives of the Bolshevik and the Menshevik wings of the RSDLP, the program documents of the Russian and German Social Democrats on this issue, the views of K. …”
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«Only anarchy can give us the opportunity to defeat the Soviet government»: a memorandum by General M. K. Dieterichs to the leadership of the ROVS (1930) by S. V. Smirnov

“…The text of the memo shows the discrepancy between the author’s realistic assessment of the international situation in the Far East, the situation in the Far Eastern regions of the USSR, where there was an increase in discontent with the activities of the Soviet government, as well as the state of White emigration in China and the presentation of the prospects of the anti-Soviet movement based on Dieterichs’ belief in the exclusively repressive and spiritually alien Russian people essence of Soviet power and readiness a significant part of the ordinary military emigration to sacrifice in the overthrow of the «Bolshevik yoke». In the end, this discrepancy had a negative impact on the course of the anti-Soviet struggle.…”
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«The Admiral is becoming a dangerous ward for us» French General M. Janen’s assessment of situation on the White Eastern Front in December 1918 by R. G. Gagkuev

“…Janin, who arrived in the Far East in November 1918 as a representative of the Entente command and the future commander-in-chief of all the troops of the anti-Bolshevik Eastern Front. The situation in which the head of the French military mission in Siberia found himself in November-December 1918, his vision of the conflict between the Supreme Ruler Admiral A. …”
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“Rien pour la révolution, tout par l’éducation”: The Talented Tenth at the Second Pan-African Congress by Emanuele Nidi

“…Notwithstanding its moderate program, colonial powers regarded it as an offshoot of Bolshevik and Garveyite propaganda. These allegations sparked a fierce internal debate between the French Pan-African leader Blaise Diagne and the US delegation, the former accusing the latter of being too critical of colonialism. …”
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« Communistes, aux armes ! » : les unités à destination spéciale (TchON) au sortir de la guerre civile en Ukraine (1920-1924) by Éric Aunoble

“…To counteract the perils of the Civil War, the Bolshevik power creates different types of armed units, which differs by their specific mission (protection, control, repression...) and their institutional affiliation (army, secret police, Party). …”
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The role of Religion during the Civil War in Russia (on the example of processes in the Omsk and Pavlodar Diocese) by A. V. Sushko

“…The first is the ideological conflict between the forces of the revolution and religious confessions, which naturally led the Church to the anti-Bolshevik camp. The second is conflicts between representatives of the clergy, caused by ideologically different views religious and political topics and support of socialist revolution by part of the clergy. …”
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Uprising in Tashkent in October 1917 according to memoirs of S. V. Sazanov by E. A. Vorobyeva

“…In Soviet historiography, the uprising in Tashkent was presented as a classic workers’ uprising against numerous counter-revolutionary forces prepared and carried out according to a clear plan under the leadership of the Bolshevik party. S. V. Sazanov’s memoirs refute this point of view. …”
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UKRAINIAN PEASANTRY AS AN OBJECT OF AGRARIAN REFORMS by G. G. Krivchik

“…In this sense, the methods for carrying out agrarian reforms in an independent and democraticUkraine do not differ much from the methods of the Bolshevik leadership. Thus, as it is shown in the article, the consequences of the agrarian reform can be equally dangerous for Ukrainian peasants. …”
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The System of Civil Rites in the Anti-Religious Policy of the Soviet Government of the 1920s in the North-West of the RSFSR by Tabachnik, Ksenia K.

“…Based on materials from archival documents, pamphlets by Soviet propagandists and major figures of the Bolshevik Party, periodical sources from the funds of the State Museum of the History of Religion, photographic documents, the author attempts to prove the actual borrowing of Christian attributes and their transformation in a revolutionary way. …”
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Social security for special categories of disabled people in the Ukrainian SSRin the 1920s. by Olha Murashova, Yurii Zinko

“…Having seized power on the territory of Ukraine, the Bolshevik government publicly announced its intentions to create an effective system of social security for the disabled strata of society. …”
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Start of Higher School in Crimea: Taurida University (1918–1920) by Sergey B. Filimonov

“…Of particular interest is the history of Taurida University in the years of the Civil War, when its teachers were the greatest scientists who fled from the Bolshevik terror from the university centers of the former Russian Empire to the “white” Crimea. …”
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