Editing Russian Civil War (section)

===Literature===
The Civil War was a popular theme among the [[Socialist realism]] writers; it was championed in the works of such authors as [[Dmitri Furmanov]] (''[[:de:Tschapajew (Roman)|Chapayev]]'', 1923), [[Alexander Serafimovich]], [[Vsevolod Vishnevsky]] (''[[An Optimistic Tragedy]]'', 1933) and [[Alexander Fadeyev (writer)|Aleksandr Fadeyev]]; one of the best-known examples is the novel ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]'' (1934) by [[Nikolai Ostrovsky]].
* ''[[The Road to Calvary]]'' (1922–1941) by [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]].
Other prominent works of fiction by the Soviet writers that didn't follow the methods and doctrine of Socialist realism include:
* ''[[The White Guard]]'' (1925) and ''[[A Young Doctor's Notebook]]'' (1925–1926) by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]
* ''[[Red Cavalry]]'' (1926–1933) by [[Isaac Babel]]
* ''[[Chevengur]]'' (1927, fully published in 1971) by [[Andrei Platonov]]
* ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1928–1940) by [[Mikhail Sholokhov]]
* ''Conquered City'' (1932) by [[Victor Serge]]
* ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by [[Boris Pasternak]]
* ''[[The Red Wheel]] (1971–1991)'' by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
by the [[White émigré|White ''émigré'']] authors:
* ''An Evening with Claire'' (1930) by [[Gaito Gazdanov]]
* ''[[Novel with Cocaine]]'' (1934) by [[M. Ageyev]]
Works by the Western and contemporary authors:
* ''Futility'' (1922) by [[William Gerhardie]]
* ''[[Coup de Grâce (novel)|Coup de Grâce]]'' (1939) by [[Marguerite Yourcenar]]
* ''[[Byzantium Endures]]'' (1981) by [[Michael Moorcock]]
* ''[[Fall of Giants]]'' (2010) by [[Ken Follett]]
* ''[[Bro (novel)|Bro]]'' (2011) by [[Vladimir Sorokin]]
* ''A Splendid Little War'' (2012) by [[Derek Robinson (novelist)]]