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• Iz ti͡uremnykh vospominaniĭ (Gos. izd-vo, 1924), by L. A. Volkenshteĭn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1921), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus den sibirischen Bleibergwerken : unedierte Briefe des zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurtheilten russischen Professors Vaszilij Jakszakov, mit den Zeichnungen und dem Autogramm des Verurtheilten. (S. Cronbach, 1893), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡ksakov (page images at HathiTrust)

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• ChK (880-03 Berlin : Izd. T︠S︡entralʹnogo bi︠u︡ro Partii sot︠s︡ialistov-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionerov, 1922., 1922), by V. M. Chernov and Partīi︠a︡ sot︠s︡īalistov-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īonerov. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Human rights--Soviet Union markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on H. Res. 200, H. Con. Res. 218, H.J. Res. 230, H. Con. Res. 205, H.J. Res. 373, H. Res. 269, February 3 and April 1, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proshloe i nastoi︠a︡shchee Shlisselʹburgskoĭ kri︠e︡posti (Izd. "Donskai︠a︡ ri︠e︡chʹ,", 1904), by A. S. Prugavin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Implementation of the Helsinki accords : hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One hundredth Congress, first session, Irina Ratushinskaya, March 31, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implementation of the Helsinki accords : hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One hundredth Congress, first session, Dr. Anatoly Koryagin and Alexander Shatravka on the abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R., May 15, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovi͡etskai͡a katorga. (Izd. zagranichnago predstavitelʹstva T͡Sentralʹnago Komiteta Partīi Sot͡sīalistov-Revoli͡ut͡sīonerov, 1920), by Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhiznʹ politicheskikh arestantov v russkikh ti︠u︡rʹmakh (Izd. G. Shteĭnit︠s︡a, 1904), by George Kennan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dva ėskiza : I. Nevolʹniki Shlisselʹburga. II. Mutʹ i nakipʹ ([s.n.], 1908), by V. V. Lunkevich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, September 20, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human rights and the detention of Andrei Sakharov, update : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, April 24, 1980. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1980), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychiatric abuse of political prisoners in the Soviet Union : testimony by Leonid Plyushch : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session, March 30, 1976. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union, v. 2 : Hearing testimony of Dr. Norman B. Hirt. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1975), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws and Norman B. Hirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tainstvennyǐ uznik : glava iz knigi ob Aleksi︠e︡evskom ravelini︠e︡. (Byloe, 1919), by P. E. Shchegolev and Mikhail Beǐdeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chetvero sutok v Lubi͡anskom Kzaemati͡e V.Ch.K. (s.n., 1923), by Ivan Zakharʹin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pravila o pori︠a︡dke soderzhanii︠a︡ v ti︠u︡rʹmakh grazhdanskogo vedomstva politicheskikh arestantov. ([s.n.], 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroes and heroines of Russia; builders of a new commonwealth. (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1908), by Jaakoff Prelooker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 13 lět' v' Šlisselʹburgskoj krěposti : zapiski = La Forteresse de Schlusselbourg : mémoires (Purleigh : A. Tchertkoff, 1900., 1900), by Ljudmila Aleksandrovna Wolkenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kara i drugie ti︠u︡rʹmy Nerchinskoĭ katorgi : sbornik vosponimaniĭ, dokumentov i materialov (Izd-vo polit-katorzhan, 1927), by V. Pleskov and A. Dikovskai︠a︡-I︠A︡kimova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)
• Kak ėto bylo : dnevnik A. I. Shingareva, Petropavlovskai͡a krepostʹ 27.XI.17.-5.I.18. (Strathcona, 1978), by A. I. Shingarev, Aleksandra Ivanovna Shingareva, and Fedor Fedorovich Kokoshkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little grandmother of the Russian revolution : reminiscences and letters of Catherine Breshkovsky (Little, Brown, and Company, 1919), by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Helen Augur, and Alice Stone Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sorok dneĭ pred kazni͡ami. (1905), by Mieczysław Mańkowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tché-ka : matériaux et documents sur la terreur bolcheviste recueillis par le Bureau central du Parti socialiste révolutionnaire russe (J. Povolozky, 1922), by E. Pierremont and Partīi︠a︡ sot︠s︡īalistov-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īonerov. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten months in Bolshevik prisons (W. Blackwood, 1926), by Irina Fedorovna Dubasova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little grandmother of the Russian Revolution : reminiscences and letters of Catherine Breshkovsky (T. Fisher Unwin, 1918), by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Alice Stone Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sechzehn Jahre in Sibirien : Erinnerungen eines russischen Revolutionärs, mit 7 porträts and 6 illustationen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1904), by L. G. Deutsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Danʹ vremeni : vospominanii͡a (Zadruga, 1918), by I. Belokonskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Iz vospominaniĭ politicheskogo katorzhana, 1908-1914 gg. (Izd. Petrogradskogo soveta rabochikh i krasnoarmeĭskikh deputatov, 1919), by I. Genkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• V dinamitnoĭ masterskoĭ i kariĭskai︠a︡ politicheskai︠a︡ ti︠u︡rʹma : iz vospominaniĭ narodovolʹt︠s︡a (Gos. izd-vo, 1924), by A. V. Pribylev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zapiski shlisselʹburzht︠s︡a, 1887-1905 (Gos. izd-vo, 1920), by M. V. Novorusskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little grandmother of the Russian revolution reminiscences and letters of Catherine Breshkovsky (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917), by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo Breshko-Breshkovskai͡a and Alice Stone Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nadgrobnoe slovo Aleksandru II. (Gos. izd-vo, 1920), by Vladislav Stanislavovich Svitych and A. V. Dolgushin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prisoner of the OGPU. (Arno Press, 1970), by George Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nikolaĭ Gavrilovich Chernyshevskīĭ na katorgi͡e i v ssylki͡e (Izd. Ė. K. Pekarskago, 1907), by V. N. Shaganov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vskhody : iz zhizni politicheskikh ssylʹnykh (povi͡estʹ) (Izd. Soi͡uza russkikh sot͡sīalʹdemokratov, 1900), by Soiuz russkikh sotsial-demokratov and Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fini! / suivi d'une lettre à M.N.-V. Mouravier, Ministre de la Justice ; préf. de M.E. Roubanovitch. (Librairie G. Jacques, 1903), by P. Polivanov and N. V. Muravʹev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Katorga i ssylka ("Svi︠e︡toch,", 1907), by M. K. T︠S︡ebrikova (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Katorga i ssylka. (Izd-vo Politkatorzhan [etc.]., 1921), by Obshchestvo byvshikh politicheskikh katorzhan i ssylʹno-poselent︠s︡ev and Vsesoi︠u︡znoe obshchestvo politicheskikh katorzhan i ssylʹnoposelent︠s︡ev (Soviet Union) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fact sheet : update on the 33 imprisoned and exiled members of the Soviet Helsinski groups (The Commission, 1979), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes of an exile to Van Dieman's Land comprising the incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838, trial of the author in Canada, and subsequent appearance before Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, in London, imprisonment in England, and transportation to Van Dieman's Land : also an account of the horrible sufferings endured by ninety political prisoners during a residence of six years in that land of British slavery, together with sketches of the isand, its history, productions, inhabitants, &c. &c. (s.n.], 1846), by Linus W. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Z doby persekucí a kriminálů : vzpomínky českých novinářů a literátů (Nakl. B. Kočí, 1920), by Vincenc Červinka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A second chronicle of jails (The Talbot press, 1919), by Darrell Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires, et souvenir affectueux à tous mes chers compagnons d'infortune. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1871), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires et souvenir affectueux à tous mes braves compagnons de captivité. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 et 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1873), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un déporté; étapes d'un forçat politique. (E. Dentu, 1880), by Simon Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette (Casterman, 1877), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendice à La Roquette (Lecoffre, 1889), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)

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