Sofya Anisimova andRobert Gerwarth
European Review of History
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Articles:
- Sofya Anisimova and Robert Gerwarth, ”Political commissars in civil wars: Anatomy of a transnational phenomenon”
- Kokosalakis, Yiannis. 2026. ”The Commissar in Revolutionary War: Development, Export and Adaptation of a Civil–Military Relations Institution.” European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’histoire, February, 1–17. doi:10.1080/13507486.2026.2616789
- Sofya Anisimova, ”How to study the Civil War: Bolsheviks, military specialists and the fight for military knowledge in the Red Army, 1918–24“
- Gwendal Piègais, ”Commissars for the ‘world civil war’. Recruiting and educating Internantionalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920”
- Luyang Zhou, ”The development of the commissar system from the Russian Civil War (1918–21) to the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45)”
- Fernández Pasalodos, Arnau. 2025. “Political Commissars in the Anti-Francoist Armed Resistance (1936–52).” European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’histoire, November, 1–18. doi:10.1080/13507486.2025.2574666.
- Vassiliki Lazou, ”With Samariniotis, Sarafis and Aris as our leaders’: The political commissar – politikós in the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS)”
- Charalampos Minasidis, ”It really is the book for the P[olitical] C[ommissar]’: Soviet war literature and the quest for the ideal political commissar and fighter in the Democratic Army of Greece”
- Dmitar Tasić, ”The soul of the unit’: the Yugoslav partisan movement and the role of political commissars, 1941–42”
- Hai-Chung Pham, ”The pivotal role of political cadres in North Vietnam’s military during the Vietnam War (1954–1975)”