The book attempts to comprehensively analyze the Soviet historiography of the defense of the conquests of the Great October Revolution - the revolutionary committees operating on the territory of the Soviet Republic during the Civil War. The author identifies the main stages of research into the history of revcomas; assesses the state of the Istochnikova base of the problem and thereby facilitates the search for new materials and documents; shows the contribution of several generations of Soviet historians to the development of the problem of the defense organs of the socialist revolution; sums up the research of the history of revolutionary committees in Soviet historiography of the 60s and 70s and outlines the ways for its further study.