The events were described by a number of authors, eyewitnesses and participants of the conflicts. Among them are the Ossetian writers, Arsen Kotsoyev and Tsomak Gadiev, as well as the Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze, the Menshevik Valiko Jugheli and several Georgian political émigrés to Europe.
After the Sovietization of Georgia, however, many Ossetian refugees returned to their homes. The rest refugees mingled with the North Ossetian population. The Soviet authorities also pursued an active urbanization policy which helped to make Tskhinvali a largely Ossetian town. Cornell, p. 145.
