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• Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military (McNair paper #48; Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1996), by Mark J. Roberts
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Strangling of Persia: A Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue That Resulted in the Denationalization of Twelve Million Mohammedans (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by W. Morgan Shuster (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, by Ruhollah Khomeini, trans. by Hamid Algar (multiple formats at al-islam.org)

• The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953 (redacted version of a classified 1954 report, with additional material; this edition published 2000), by Donald Newton Wilber, ed. by Malcolm Byrne (PDF files at gwu.edu)
• On the Alliance of the October League (M-L) with the Shah of Iran (1975), by Iranian Students Association of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hostage to Khomeini, by Robert Dreyfuss and Thierry LeMarc (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• The Rise (English Defense Publication); and Leaflets in English (Wilmette, IL: Organization of Iranian Moslem Students, 1979), by Sāzmān-i Dānishjūyān-i Musalmān-i Īrānī
  • part 1 (issues 1 and 2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • part 2 (issues 3-7): multiple formats at archive.org
  • part 3 (leaflets): multiple formats at archive.org

• Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Ervand Abrahamian (HTML at UC Press)
• Light of the Path: Selected Messages of "Imam Khomeini" (Tehran: Jihad-e-Sazandegi (Jihad for Construction), External Liaison Section, 1982), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Highlights of Imam Khomeini's Speeches, Nov. 5, 80-Apr. 28, 81 (Albany, CA: Muslim Student Association, Persian Speaking Group, 1981), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Which Direction is Our Society Going? (translated from PEYKAR nos. 54 and 55; Berkeley: Union of Iranian Students in the U.S., 1980) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selected Messages and Speeches of Imam Khomeini (Tehran: Ministry of National Guidance, 1980), by Ruhollah Khomeini (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Washington et al.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2008), by Karim Sadjadpour (PDF with commentary at carnegieendowment.org)
• Democracy Betrayed: A Response to the U. S. State Department Report on the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance, by National Council of Resistance of Iran (HTML and PDF at iran-e-azad.org)
• Hostage to Khomeini, by Robert Dreyfuss and Thierry LeMarc (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• Understanding Iran (c2009), by Jerrold D. Green, Frederic M. Wehrey, and Charles Wolf (with commentary at rand.org)
• Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians (2009), by Freedom House (U.S.), RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia (PDF at freedomhouse.org)
• Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader (Washington et al.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2008), by Karim Sadjadpour (PDF with commentary at carnegieendowment.org)
• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2004), ed. by Henry D. Sokolski and Patrick Clawson (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Patrick Wing
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Straddling Economics and Politics: Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy (2002), by Charles Wolf (PDF files at rand.org)

• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (3 volumes, covering 1938-1992), by Deng Xiaoping (HTML in China)

• The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, 26th December 1917, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)

• Why War Came in Korea (New York: Fordham University Press, 1950), by Robert T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), by Errol Anthony Henderson (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1970), by William C. Berman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists Talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2013), by Kevin Cook and Heather Goodall (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• My Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by Ludwig Windischgraetz, trans. by Constance Vesey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Three Civilizations, Two Cultures, One State: Canada's Political Traditions (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1986), by Douglas V. Verney (page images at HathiTrust)

• What's Up With Catalonia? The Causes Which Impel Them to the Separation (Ashfield, MA: Catalonia Press, c2013), ed. by Elizabeth Castro, contrib. by Artur Mas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Robert B. Fairbanks (PDF at Ohio State)

• The CIA in Ecuador (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2020), by Marc Becker (HTML at Project MUSE)

• Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997), by Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Pan-Europa (in German; Vienna: Pan-Europa Verlag, 1923), by Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from Christian Europe (New York: Friendship Press, c1953), by Stewart W. Herman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Europe and Italy's Acquisition of Libya, 1911-1912 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1942), by William C. Askew (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by David James Fisher (HTML at UC Press)

• Mein Kampf (1925-1926; this English translation 1939), by Adolf Hitler, trans. by James Vincent Murphy (text in Russia and Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)
• The Truth About Westminster, by Patrick Dixon (HTML with commentary at globalchange.com)

• American Hungarian Relations, 1918-1944, by Mark Imre Major (HTML at Corvinus Library)
• My Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by Ludwig Windischgraetz, trans. by Constance Vesey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges (HTML at hrw.org)

• Epistles From Pap: Letters From the Man Known as "The Will Rogers of Indiana", by Andrew Everett Durham, ed. by J. Frank Durham and Douglas Hay (Gutenberg text)

• Italy at the Millennium: Economy, Politics, Literature and Journalism, ed. by Paolo Janni (PDF at crvp.org)

• Deepening Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Kurt von Mettenheim and James M. Malloy (searchable page images at Pitt)
• Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), ed. by David Rock (HTML at UC Press)
• Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America (Cambridge, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Patricia Parkman (PDF at aeinstein.org)
• Revolution in Latin America (New York: Workers Library Publishers, c1928), by Bertram D. Wolfe (multiple formats at archive.org)

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