• Opinion Paper
  • September 26, 2025
  • Open access

Ratkovsky I., Slivko S., Shumakov M. Victims of the Intervention: The First Comprehensive Scientific Study of the Activities of the Society for Assistance to the Victims of the Intervention, 1924-1927 / ed. by I. S. Ratkovsky. St. Petersburg: Piter, 2025. 336 p.: Book review

Abstract

The reviewed publication is a study devoted to the activities of the Society for Assistance to Victims of Intervention, which was established in the USSR to prepare counterclaims against the countries that participated in the foreign intervention during the Civil War in Russia. The authors of this work have introduced exceptionally valuable material into scientific circulation, which characterizes the damage caused by the interventionists and their accomplices to our country during the Civil War. The authors have paid great attention to the organizational and legal aspects of the Society for Assistance to Victims of Intervention’s activities in 1924-1927. The book will be of interest to readers who are interested in the history of 20th-century Russia.

Author information

Alexander Evgenievich Smirnitsky

PhD

Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

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Publication history

  • Received: September 15, 2025.
  • Published: September 26, 2025.

Keywords

  • иностранная интервенция
  • подготовка контрпретензий
  • Общество содействия жертвам интервенции
  • народный комиссариат иностранных дел
  • foreign intervention
  • counterclaims preparation
  • Society for Assistance to Victims of Intervention
  • People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

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