Political Commissars as a Transnational Phenomenon in Civil Wars

Sofya Anisimova andRobert Gerwarth
European Review of History

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Articles:

  1. Sofya Anisimova and Robert Gerwarth, ”Political commissars in civil wars: Anatomy of a transnational phenomenon”
  2. 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
  3. Sofya Anisimova, ”How to study the Civil War: Bolsheviks, military specialists and the fight for military knowledge in the Red Army, 1918–24
  4. Gwendal Piègais, ”Commissars for the ‘world civil war’. Recruiting and educating Internantionalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920
  5. Luyang Zhou, ”The development of the commissar system from the Russian Civil War (1918–21) to the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45)”
  6. 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.
  7. Vassiliki Lazou, ”With Samariniotis, Sarafis and Aris as our leaders’: The political commissar – politikós in the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS)
  8. 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
  9. Dmitar Tasić, ”The soul of the unit’: the Yugoslav partisan movement and the role of political commissars, 1941–42
  10. Hai-Chung Pham, ”The pivotal role of political cadres in North Vietnam’s military during the Vietnam War (1954–1975)”