Article published in «Res Historica» — 2017 — No 44 — pp. 217-225. DOI: 10.17951/rh.2017.44.217-225 The paper discusses the factors that determined the structure and competence levels of local governmental bodies in Soviet Russia between 1918 and the early 1930s and the major trends in their evolution. It is demonstrated that the utopian ideas of the Bolshevik leaders gradually...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. — 469 p. This chronicle has been conceived without bias toward any faction. It is an honest effort to picture a conflict so vast that no one man could view it in its entirety or hope to describe it without loss of proportion in some aspect. I crave the mercy of those who realize the complexity of the Russian scene in this period. My...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 282 p. This book analyzes the multi-faceted phenomenon of Finnish military effectiveness in the Winter War (1939–1940). Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Pasi Tuunainen shows how by focusing on their own strengths and pitting these against the weaknesses of their adversary, the Finns were able to inflict heavy casualties on...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 304 p. The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only survived the initial attacks but succeeded in...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. — 400 p. The Allied intervention was a multi-national military expedition launched during the Russian Civil War in 1918. Its operations included forces from 14 nations and were conducted over a vast territory. The initial stated goals were to help the Czechoslovak Legions, secure supplies of munitions and armaments in Russian ports, and...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 57 p. This monograph conducts a doctrinal analysis of Red Army planning and execution of the Soviet-Finnish War to determine if poorly developed doctrine was the cause of Soviet failures. Military doctrine is critical to a nation. Sound doctrine...
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. — 283 p. On November 30, 1939, the largest, richest, most powerful nation in Europe (the Soviet Union, with a population of approximately 100 million) launched a mighty invasion against one of Europe’s smallest, poorest, and weakest nations (the Republic of Finland, with a population of 3.7 million). Militarily, the odds were so...
Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — 1968. — 346 p. This dissertation is an analytical examination of material published by the Soviet Union which concerned the Winter War with Finland from 30 November 1939 to 12 March 1940. The events...
Stackpole Books, 1973. Were you to travel from the Arctic Ocean to the city of Leningrad, along the Russo-Finnish border in the year 1939, you would have had a complex journey. The frontier itself separating the two countries was little more than a wide swath cut through the forests, or a line snaking around lakes and rivers. Dotted along the way were groups of border guards at...
London: Frank Cass, 1997. — 245 p. Western accounts of the Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940 have been reliant on Western sources. Using Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in conflict with Finland, Carl Van Dyke offers a reassessment of the conflict.
New York: 1919. — 16 p. Whatever economic subject pertaining to Russia is dealt with, we of necessity — such are the present conditions — have to resort to a nundber of conjectural assumptions. In my report I shall consider Russia as a political unit in its former boundaries, excepting only Poland, the separation of which from Russia in the form of an independent state presents...
UCL Press, 2001. — 183 p. This highly readable and authoritative new study of the 1917 Revolution restores to center stage the experiences of the ordinary men and women of Russia's towns and villages. By examining the revolution in the light of these experiences rather than the activities of central parties and politicians, the book challenges many commonly held assumptions and...
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1933. — 172 p. This book is based upon a very brief Durant's visit to Russia in the summer of 1932. From the Preface: The views expressed in this book will be unavoidably unpopular with most critics, whose natural liberalism and sympathetic interest in new experiments will be offended by this apparent betrayal of the liberal cause. I can only ask them to...
The Center for Russian and East European Studies, a program of the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. No. 1106. February 1995. — 132 p. — ISSN: 08899-275X. Semion Lyandres received his Ph.D. in Russian and Eastern European history from Stanford University, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at East Carolina...
The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 28 No. 2 (June 1956). P. 130-154. In the winter of 1917-18 the Committee on Public Information, which was the official American propaganda agency of World War I, stationed in Petrograd a special representative, Edgar Sisson, formerly an editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine. In February and March 1918, Sisson purchased and removed from Russia a...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 047206424X; ISBN13: 978-0472064243 — (Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Book 201) For all of its upheaval, revolution provides that rarest of opportunities: the possibility of creating;a new social and cultural architecture. Bolshevik Visions has been revised for its second printing and made into a two-part collection of...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 047206424X; ISBN13: 978-0472064243 — (Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Book 201) For all of its upheaval, revolution provides that rarest of opportunities: the possibility of creating;a new social and cultural architecture. Bolshevik Visions has been revised for its second printing and made into a two-part collection of...
Paris: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. — 466 p. By the early twentieth century, a genuine renaissance of religious thought and a desire for ecclesial reform were emerging in the Russian Orthodox Church. With the end of tsarist rule and widespread dissatisfaction with government control of all aspects of church life, conditions were ripe for the Moscow Council of 1917-1918...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. — xxviii, 412 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-05193-2. The historiography of the Russian Revolution in Western countries, for all its peculiar advantages of objective distance from the events, has produced a distorted view of the vast canvas of 1917 — 1918 by its almost exclusive concentration on the central cities, Petrograd and...
The Bodley Head Ltd., 2018. — 448 p. Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the...
The Bodley Head Ltd., 2018. — 448 p. Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written. More deaths resulted from the actions described in this book than from the whole of the...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 400 p. For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker’s The 1929 Sino-Soviet War is the...