RUSSIA IN THE CIVIL WAR: NORTHERN REGIONAL DIMENSION

Article investigates the studying of regional problems of the Russia’s Civil War, primarily in the RussianNorth. The author characterizes the literature published in connection with the centenary of the events. Central attentionis paid to the coverage of regional issues, mainly to the problems, processes and events of the Civil War in the RussianNorth in the encyclopedia entitled Russia in the Civil War. The study reveals whether the quality of the articles in thisedition corresponds to the modern level of historiography of the history of the Civil War in the North, indicating theerrors and distortions in the encyclopedia materials discovered as a result of the content analysis. The conclusions are drawn about the need to correct erroneous statements presented on the pages of this edition. The article characterizes the prospects of studying the problems of the Civil War in Russia and the Russian North.

Russian Civil War, intervention, Russian North, history, historiography, critical analysis