Anna Reid is a historian and author specializing in Russian and Soviet history. She is the author of A Nasty Little War The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution, published by Basic Books in 2024, which examines foreign interventions and political efforts to overturn the Bolshevik regime following the 1917 Russian Revolution. Reid’s work combines archival research, military history, and political analysis to illuminate the interactions between Western powers and early Soviet governance. She has written extensively on Russian history, producing books and articles that explore social, military, and political developments, with a focus on the consequences of revolution and conflict for both domestic and international actors.