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• Underground Movement, by Allen Kim Lang, illust. by Robert Engle (Gutenberg ebook)
• I, the Unspeakable, by Walter J. Sheldon, illust. by Louis Marchetti (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (in German), by Robert Musil (Gutenberg ebook)

• Emerald Sea (c2004), by John Ringo (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• A State of Disobedience (c2003), by Tom Kratman (HTML with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• The last space ship, by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Greek (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1931), by Tiffany Thayer, illust. by Edward Staloff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let freedom cringe, a novel. (Queen's Work, 1937), by Daniel A. Lord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 30-day wonder, by Richard Wilson, illust. by Richard M. Powers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Out of nowhere, by E. A. Grosser, illust. by John R. Forte (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kill Me if You Can!, by Randall Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Yesterday's Revenge, by H. L. Nichols, illust. by Michael Mirando (Gutenberg ebook)

• Heimat in Ketten : ein sudeten-deutscher Roman (F. Ehernachf. ;, 1943), by Rudolf Haas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• We (with retrospective commentaries by the translator, Rudy, and Slonim; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1959), by Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin, trans. by Gregory Zilboorg, contrib. by Peter Rudy and Marc Slonim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Caliphate (c2008), by Tom Kratman (multiple formats at Baen Ebooks)
• We (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1924), by Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin, trans. by Gregory Zilboorg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Rebelllion of the Beasts: or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!!! (attributed to Hunt, dedication signed by "John Pimplico"; London: J. and H. L. Hunt, 1825), contrib. by Leigh Hunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Brave New World (c1932), by Aldous Huxley (PDF in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The programmed people, by Jack Sharkey, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The sentinel stars : a novel of the future, by Louis Charbonneau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Breathes there a man, by Charles E. Fritch, illust. by H. R. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution (published as by "George Marlen"; New York: Red Star Press, 1933), by George Spiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution (New York: Red Star Press, 1932), by George Spiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pionniers (Paris : Librairie des Temps nouveaux, 1908., 1908), by Jean Grave and Mabel Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern martyr. (Meador, 1950), by Marion L. Talamantez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let freedom cringe, a novel. (Queen's Work, 1937), by Daniel A. Lord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The indictment : a novel from behind the Iron Curtain. (Augsburg Publishing House, 1960) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mother, by Pearl S. Buck (Gutenberg ebook)

• Silas Timberman (New York: Blue Heron Press, 1954), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson, contrib. by J. W. Thompson and Melvil Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Allanforth commune : the triumph of socialism (National Labour Press, 1913), by Findlay Watt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The diary of a communist schoolboy (Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1928), by N. Ognev and Alexander Werth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diario del alumno Kostia Riabzef : anotaciones de un muchacho de quince años (Ediciones Jason, 1929), by N. Ognev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lost sword of Shamyl (Houghton Mifflincompany, 1925), by Lewis Stanton Palen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The post of honor (Whittlesey House, 1949), by David Dortort (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (2025), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Vera Kempe, Konstantinos Armaos, Ulrike Hahn, Christoph Abels, Susilo Wibisono, Winnifred R. Louis, Sunita Sah, Christina Pagel, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, Philipp Markolin, Henrik Schoenemann, Ralph Hertwig, Henry Crull, Barry Mauer, Dawn Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, and John Cook (PDF with commentary at zenodo.org)
• Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Nathan J. Brown, Steven D. Schaaf, Samer Anabtawi, and Julian G. Waller (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Authoritarian Playbook: How Reporters Can Contextualize and Cover Authoritarian Threats As Distinct From Politics-As-Usual (Washington: Protect Democracy, 2022), by Jennifer Dresden, Aaron Baird, and Ben Raderstorf (PDF with commentary at protectdemocracy.org)
• Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (2009), by Freedom House (U.S.), RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia (PDF at freedomhouse.org)
• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)
• Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Marlies Glasius, Meta de Lange, Jos Midas Bartman, Emanuela Dalmasso, Aofei Lv, Adele Del Sordi, Marcus Michaelsen, and Kris Ruijgrok (multiple formats with commentary at springer.com)
• Authoritarianism and leadership; a study of the follower's orientation to authority. (Printed by Stephenson-Brothers, 1950), by Fillmore Hargrave Sanford and Pa.) Institute for Research in Human Relations (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• "At hand" what is "At hand?" : the universal righteous government of "the Kingdom of God" upon earth is "at hand" : as is made abundantly manifest in several extremely important and suggestive letters to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, as well as to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Argyll ([s.n.], 1894), by Henry Wentworth Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turkey post-referendum : institutions and human rights : May 2, 2017, briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (Washington : Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 2017., 2017), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Techno-authoritarianism : platform for repression in China and abroad : hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, November 17, 2021. (Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2022., 2022), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024), by Steven D Schaaf, Nathan J Brown, Julian G Waller, and Samer Anabtawi (JSTOR ebook)

• Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development Without Democracy (London: Zed Books, c2016), ed. by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens (PDF with commentary at DiVA)

• Democratization versus liberalization in the Arab world : dilemmas and challenges for U.S. foreign policy (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005), by Daniel Brumberg and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

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