2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, a conflict that saw the overthrow of Russia’s reigning Tsars, the rise of Communism, and the beginnings of what would eventually become the Soviet Union.

Scholars Portal Books contains hundreds of books about the Russian Revolution, including both scholarly works and public domain writings from that era that may be suitable as primary sources. A small selection is included below.  For more, please visit books.scholarsportal.info

Scholarly Works

Public Domain Titles

• The birth of the Russian democracy, by A.J. Slack, Director of the Russian Information Bureau in the United States, 1918
• The Bolshevik Revolution: Its rise and meaning, by Maxim Litvinoff, Plenipotentiary of the Russian People’s Government to Great Britain, 1918
• From autocracy to Bolshevism, by Baron P. Graevenitz, 1918
• Russia in upheaval — illustrated with more than eighty photographs, 1918
• The Russian revolution, by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch, 1918
• Russia from the Varangians to the Bolsheviks, 1918
• The eclipse of Russia, by Emile Joseph Dillon, 1918
• From Czar to Bolshevik, by E. P. Stebbing, illustrated with photographs by the author, 1918
• Recollections of a Russian Diplomat, by Alexander Aleksandrovich Savinsky, Chief of the Russian Cabinet of Foreign Affairs 1901-1910 and later, Minister Plenipotentiary in Bulgaria. WIth 36 illustrations. 1917