Sources — Green Ukraine

In English

Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Entries: “Far East,” “Green Wedge,” “Zelenyi Klyn.” Free, reliable, and the only English reference treatment. Begin here.
Marples, David R., and others, eds. Ukraine in Historical Perspective. Edmonton: CIUS Press, various. For the general frame; the Far East appears as a component of the emigration story.
Stephan, John J. The Russian Far East: A History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. The essential English-language history of the region, and the best single book on this list. Covers the settlement, the intervention, the Far Eastern Republic and the terror, with the Ukrainian movement treated seriously and in proportion.
Bassin, Mark. Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. How Russia understood the acquisition of the Amur, which is the necessary background to everyone who arrived afterwards.
Treadgold, Donald W. The Great Siberian Migration. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Still the standard account of the peasant movement east, with the provincial origins broken down.
Sunderland, Willard. Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. On Russian settler colonialism as colonialism, which is the frame this subject needs and rarely gets.

The region

Pereira, N. G. O. White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
Smele, Jonathan D. The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926. London: Hurst, 2015. The best modern account, and right to put the plural in the title.
Dunscomb, Paul E. Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011. On the largest and least-remembered foreign force in the region.
Norton, Henry Kittredge. The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923. Contemporary, credulous about the buffer state's independence, and useful precisely for that.
Snow, Russell E. The Bolsheviks in Siberia, 1917–1918. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.
White, John Albert. The Siberian Intervention. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

The movement

Svit, Ivan. Ukrainian-Japanese Relations, 1903–1945 [Українсько-японські взаємини]. New York: Ukrainian Historical Association, 1972. In Ukrainian. The principal narrative source, by a participant who spent the 1920s and 1930s in Harbin. Indispensable and partisan; read it as testimony.
Svit, Ivan. Articles in Svoboda, Ukrainskyi Istoryk and the Harbin emigre press, 1920s–1970s. Scattered, and collectively the largest body of writing on the subject by anyone who was there.
Chornomaz, Viktor. Zelenyi Klyn (Ukrainian Far East) [Зелений Клин]. Vladivostok: Far Eastern Federal University, 2011. In Ukrainian. An encyclopaedic reference compiled by a historian working in Vladivostok itself, and the fullest modern treatment of the organisations and people.
Chornomaz, Viktor. Ukrainian National Movement in the Far East, 1917–1922. Vladivostok, 2009. In Ukrainian; the standard monograph on the congresses and the Secretariat.
Popok, Andrii. Ukrainian Settlements in the Far East. Kyiv, 2001. In Ukrainian. On the settlement pattern and the institutions.
Serhiichuk, Volodymyr. Ukrainian Far East [Український Далекий Схід]. Kyiv, various editions. In Ukrainian; document collections, valuable for the sources printed in them. The framing is nationally committed and should be read as such.

Terror and nationality

Martin, Terry. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. The book that explains korenizatsiia and its reversal, and therefore explains most of what happened to this community. Essential.
Slezkine, Yuri. “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism.” Slavic Review 53, no. 2 (1994): 414–52.
Gelb, Michael. “An Early Soviet Ethnic Deportation: The Far-Eastern Koreans.” Russian Review 54, no. 3 (1995): 389–412. On the 1937 deportation of 172,000 Koreans — the first wholesale Soviet deportation of a nationality, and it happened here.
Werth, Nicolas. “The Mechanism of a Mass Crime: The Great Terror in the Soviet Union, 1937–1938.” In The Specter of Genocide, ed. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History. New York: Doubleday, 2003. For the camp system in the Far East, which was its largest concentration.
Weiner, Amir, ed. Landscaping the Human Garden. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

The other peoples

Arsenyev, Vladimir. Dersu the Trapper [Dersu Uzala]. Trans. Malcolm Burr. New York: Dutton, 1941; repr. McPherson, 1996. The classic account of the Ussuri taiga and its people, by the surveyor who was mapping it for the state.
Forsyth, James. A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. The standard work on the indigenous peoples, and unsparing about what colonisation did to them.
Chekhov, Anton. Sakhalin Island. Trans. Brian Reeve. London: Oneworld Classics, 2007. 1890, and one of the great works of documentary reporting in any language.
Siegelbaum, Lewis H. “Another ‘Yellow Peril’: Chinese Migrants in the Russian Far East.” Modern Asian Studies 12, no. 2 (1978): 307–30.
Weinerman, Eli. “The Polemics between Moscow and Central Asians on the Decline of Central Asia and Tsarist Russia's Role in the History of the Region.” Slavonic and East European Review 71, no. 3 (1993). For the wider argument about how Soviet historiography handled imperial settlement.
Kotkin, Stephen, and David Wolff, eds. Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.

The diaspora

Bakich, Olga. Harbin Russian Imprints: Bibliography as History, 1898–1961. New York: Norman Ross, 2002. The bibliography of the Manchurian emigration's own publishing, which is how you find what the community printed about itself.
Moustafine, Mara. Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files. Sydney: Vintage, 2002. A family history that is also the best available account of what happened to Harbin returnees in the Soviet Union.
Lazzerini, Edward J., and others, eds. Papers of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York. The Svit papers and the Far Eastern emigre collections; by appointment.
Luciuk, Lubomyr Y. Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada, and the Migration of Memory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. How the post-war refugee movement, including the Shanghai evacuees, reached Canada and what it carried.
Slavonic Library, Klementinum, Prague. Russian and Ukrainian Historical Archive Abroad (RZIA/UIA) collections. What the Czechoslovak state assembled between the wars, minus what was removed to Moscow in 1945.