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• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• N. Lenin: His Life and Work (Toronto: One Big Union, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (PDF at flvc.org)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (Cleveland: Toiler Pub. Assoc., ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: British socialist party, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zyciorys i Dzialanosc Mikolaja Lenina (Lenin biography translated into Polish; Chicago: Workers Party of America, Polish Section, 1924), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life, by Leon Trotsky (HTML at marxists.org)

• 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)

• Doklad na Zakrytom Zasedanii XX S'ezda KPSS: o Kulte Lichnosti i Ego Posledstviiakh (in Russian; this edition ca. 1959), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• 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)

• 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)

• My Life, by Leon Trotsky (HTML at marxists.org)
• N. Lenin: His Life and Work (Toronto: One Big Union, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (PDF at flvc.org)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (Cleveland: Toiler Pub. Assoc., ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: British socialist party, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zyciorys i Dzialanosc Mikolaja Lenina (Lenin biography translated into Polish; Chicago: Workers Party of America, Polish Section, 1924), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Soviet Union: A Country Study (second edition, 1991), ed. by Raymond E. Zickel (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Soviet Union Today: An Outline Study, Syllabus and Bibliography (third edition, 1946), by American Russian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soviet Union Today: An Outline Study, Syllabus and Bibliography (1943), by American Russian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russia at War: Twenty Key Questions and Answers (Headline Books #34; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1942), by Vera Micheles Dean (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Mystery of Iniquity: An Expose of the Spirit and Nature of International Communism (Fresno, CA: Graeter Publishing Concern, c1933), by Louis Richard Patmont (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Civilization (New York: Philosophical Library, c1952), by Corliss Lamont, contrib. by Henry Pratt Fairchild (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" (New York: Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1931), by John J. Ballam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Commercial Handbook of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Washington: Russian Information Bureau, 1926), by Russian Information Bureau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fighting the Red Trade Menace (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1931), by H. R. Knickerbocker
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990), by Lynn Mally (HTML at UC Press)

• Soviet Strength and Soviet Strategy (Los Angeles: American People's Mobilization, 1941), by Norman Byrne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Working for the Soviets: An American Engineer in Russia (New York: Covici-Friede, 1932), by Walter Arnold Rukeyser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russia Under the Hammer and Sickle: Impressions Written to the Purina Family (St. Louis: Privately printed, c1927), by William H. Danforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soviet System at Work (London: The Communist Party, 1920), by Robert Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Broken Journey: Wanderings From the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River (London: T. W. Laurie Ltd., ca.1919), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Through Starving Russia: Being a Record of a Journey to Moscow and the Volga Provinces, in August and September, 1921 (London: Methuen and Co., c1921), by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Russia in 1938 as Seen by a Minnesota farmer; The World's Most Horrible Atrocities: Where? When? Why? (ca. 1939), by L. A. Coblentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Red Flag at Ararat (New York: The Womans Press, c1932), by A. Y. Yeghenian (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• Commercial Handbook of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Washington: Russian Information Bureau, 1926), by Russian Information Bureau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reconstruction of Russia and the Task of Labor (New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922), by Sidney Hillman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, ed. by Paul R. Gregory and V. V. Lazarev (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• A Citizen's Course in Freedom vs. Communism: The Economics of Survival (8 booklets; Washington: Public Affairs Dept., Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1962), by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
  • Book 1 (The Communist Challenge): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2 (Consumer Control or Controlled Consumers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 3 (Profit Motive or Master Plan): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 4 (Who Gets What): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 5 (The Role of Government): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 6 (The Big Picture): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 7 (Meeting the Economic Challenge): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 8 (What You Can Do About Communism): multiple formats at archive.org
• Marx's Religion of Revolution: Regeneration Through Chaos (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Oktiabr'skii Perevorot i Vopros o Natsional'nostiakh (in Russian; Moscow, 1918), by Joseph Stalin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-1980 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984), ed. by Robert Owen Freedman, contrib. by Jerome M. Gilison, Jerry Goodman, William Korey, Theodore H. Friedgut, Fabian Kolker, Zvi Y. Gitelman, Steve Feinstein, and Ilya Levkov (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trotsky Opposition: Its Significance for American Workers (Workers Library #5; New York: Workers Library Publishes, c1928), by Bertram D. Wolfe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Kremlin Speaks: Excerpts From Statements Made by the Leaders of the Soviet Union (Dept. of State publication 4264, European and British Commonwealth Series 25; Washington: GPO, 1951), ed. by United States Department of State Office of Public Affairs
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Russian Imperial Conspiracy, 1892-1914 (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1927), by Robert L. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Russian Imperial Conspiracy, 1892-1914: The Most Gigantic Intrigue of All Time (Baltimore: Sun Book and Job Printing Office, c1926), by Robert L. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

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