Editing Russia and the Soviet Union (section)

== Literature in Russian ==

* Sipeykin, Alexander V. (Сипейкин А.В.) (2024). "Агван Доржиев и конец «золотого века» буддизма в Советской России" [Agvan Dorzhiev and the End of the "Golden Age" of Buddhism in Soviet Russia]. ''Российская история'' 1: 149–160. {{annotation|A recent archival study, drawing on OGPU documents, that reassesses the so-called "golden age" of Soviet Buddhism as a mutual instrumentalization rather than genuine tolerance, and traces the security services' management and eventual abandonment of the renovationist movement, along with the movement's economic strangulation and its leaders' private disillusionment.}}
* Sinitsyn, Fedor L. (Синицын Ф.Л.) (2013). "Советское государство и буддисты (1917–1946 гг.)" [The Soviet State and the Buddhists, 1917–1946]. ''Российская история'' 1: 62–76. {{annotation|The principal archival survey of Soviet religious policy toward Buryat and Kalmyk Buddhists across the entire period; the source for much of the institutional and statistical detail in this entry, though its figures should be read alongside Sipeykin (2024) and Tsyrempilov (2019).}}
* Tsyrempilov, Nikolay (Цыремпилов Н.) (2019). "Сангха в эпоху упадка. Реакции российских буддистов на Русскую революцию и Гражданскую войну" [The Sangha in the Age of Degradation: Responses of the Russian Buddhists to the Russian Revolution and Civil War]. ''Государство. Религия. Церковь в России и за рубежом'' 37(1/2): 347–370. {{annotation|Challenges the "golden age" framing of early Soviet Buddhist policy and provides the fullest account of the Civil War-era divergence between secular Buryat nationalists and the official clergy, including the latter's support for Kolchak and Tsydenov's short-lived Balagat theocracy.}}
* Andreyev, A. I. (Андреев А.И.) (2004). ''Храм Будды в Северной столице'' [The Temple of Buddha in the Northern Capital]. St. Petersburg: Nartang. {{annotation|A dedicated history of the St. Petersburg Buddhist temple that Dorzhiev built, tracing its role as an institutional base for the renovationist movement through its 1938 closure.}}
* Damdinov, A. V. (Дамдинов А.В.) (1997). "Агван Доржиев в обновленческом движении бурятского буддийского духовенства" [Agvan Dorzhiev in the Renovationist Movement of the Buryat Buddhist Clergy]. In: ''Бурятский буддизм: история и идеология'' [Buryat Buddhism: History and Ideology]. Ulan-Ude. {{annotation|Traces the pre-revolutionary origins of the Buryat renovationist current and Dorzhiev's role within it before 1917.}}
* Andreyev, A. I. (Андреев А.И.) (1992). "Агван Доржиев и судьбы буддийской религии в СССР" [Agvan Dorzhiev and the Fate of Buddhism in the USSR]. ''Реверс: Философско-религиозный и литературный альманах''. St. Petersburg, pp. 193ff. {{annotation|An early post-Soviet reassessment of Dorzhiev's strategy, drawing on newly accessible archival material.}}