In many ways the best book on War Communism is by a participant, L. N. Kritsman, Geroicheskii period Velikoi Russkoi Revoliutsii [The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution] (Moscow-Leningrad, 1926). Much data can be found in S. Malle, The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918–1921 (Cambridge, 1985). Communist treatment of labor is the subject of M. Dewar’s Labour Policy in the USSR, 1917–1928 (New York, 1979). Simon Liberman’s Building Lenin’s Russia (Chicago, 1945), illuminates the human side of Soviet economic experimentation.
No comprehensive study has been written on the peasantry in the first years of Communist rule. Among the most informative are D. Atkinson’s The End of the Russian Land Commune, 1905–1930 (Stanford, Calif., 1983) and V. V. Kabanov’s KrestHanskoe khoziaistvo v usloviiakh “Voennogo Kommunizma” [The Peasant Economy under Conditions of “War Communism”] (Moscow, 1988). Mikhail Frenkin’s Tragediia kresVianskikh vosstanii v Rossii, 1918–1921 gg. [The Tragedy of Peasant Uprisings in Russia, 1918–1921] (Jerusalem, 1988) describes peasant resistance to Communist agrarian policies.
On the Imperial family in 1917–18 there is S. P. Melgunov’s Sud’ba Imperatora Nikolaia II posle otrecheniia [The Fate of Emperor Nicholas II after Abdication] (Paris, 1951). N. A. Sokolov’s Ubiistvo tsarskoi sem’i [The Murder of the Imperial Family] (Paris, 1925) summarizes the findings of the investigatory commission which the author chaired (in French: Enquête Judiciaire sur l’Assassinat de la Famille Impériale Russe, Paris, 1924). The fate of the other Romanovs in Soviet hands is the subject of Serge Smirnoffs Autour de l’Assassinat des Grands-Ducs [About the Assassination of the Grand Dukes] (Paris, 1928).
The most important work on the Red Terror in all its dimensions is G. Leggett’s The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police (Oxford, 1986). On early Soviet concentration camps, there is James Bunyan’s The Origin of Forced Labor in the Soviet State, 1917–1921 (Baltimore, Md., 1967).
TEXTUAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd. : Excerpt from Letters of Tsarita to the Tsar 1914–1916 edited by Sir Bernard Pares, Duckworth & Co., 1923. Reprinted by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd.
Europe Printing Establishment and Mouton de Gruyter: Translation by Richard Pipes of excerpts from Kantorovich in Byloe, No. 22 (1923); Maliantovich in Byloe, No. 12 (1918); Gorovich in ARR, VI (1922); and NChS, No. 9 (1925). Reprinted by permission of Europe Printing Establishment and Mouton de Gruyter, a division of Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Karin Kramer Verlag: Translation by Richard Pipes of excerpts from Gewalt und Terror in der Revolution by Isaak Steinberg (1974). Reprinted by permission of Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin.
Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd. : Excerpt from The Kornilov Affair: Kerensky and the Break-up of the Russian Army by George Katkov, Longman Group Ltd., London. Copyright © 1980 by George Katkov. Reprinted by permission of the Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd.
Royal Institute of International Affairs: Excerpt from Soviet Documents on Foreign Policy, Vol. I, 1917–1924, selected and edited by Jane Degras. Published by Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1951. Reprinted by permission.
Times Newspapers Limited: “Ex-Tsar Shot: Official Approval of Crime” from The Times, July 22, 1918. Copyright by Times Newspapers Limited. Reprinted by permission.
