The review analyzes the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences V. A. Drobchenko and Candidate of Historical Sciences A. P. Dementiev, which contains systematized information about 255 of the most significant forms of manifestation (events) of social activity of the population of the Yenisei province during the Civil War in Russia. The first of its two sections contains information about sessions of local governments, congresses, conferences, meetings, plenums of public organizations and social groups held from the end of May to the end of November 1918, the second section contains events from December 1918 to March 1920. A harmonious addition to the main content of the collection is a well-executed historical essay "Yenisei province on the eve and during the Civil War" with a volume of 52 pages. The review evaluates the extensive array of historical sources used by the authors, based on archival documents and periodicals. The structure of the event description is characterized, including 12 parameters (date, venue, number of delegates, their composition, the content of the decisions taken, including full-text resolutions and resolutions, etc.). Attention is drawn to the continuity of the reviewed book with a 9-volume edition devoted to similar events in the Siberian provinces in 1917-1918, which was prepared by historians of Tomsk State University in the early 1990s. It is noted that the greatest share in the book is information about forums held during the existence of anti-Soviet regimes of power by such public structures and social groups as zemstvo bodies, cooperatives, teachers, entrepreneurs, Cossacks, etc. The authors devoted a lot of attention to the forms of manifestation of social activity by participants in the mass anti-Kolchak insurgent partisan movement. The documents published in the collection show that along with the civil war escalation, the dialogue of society with the authorities in the territory of the Yenisei province was rapidly decreasing, and in the Kolchak region it actually stopped. Under the conditions of the military dictatorship, there was no place for an autonomous social life. As a result, the process of forming civil society in Russia, which had not been completed by that time, led to its grinding in the millstones of the Civil War. Despite the inaccuracies and omissions found in the book, in general, the documented information presented in it on the nature and forms of public activity of the population of the Yenisei province significantly replenishes the array of published sources on the history of the Civil War in eastern Russia, thereby contributing to their wider use by historians, local historians and all those interested in Siberian history.
