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• Russia in the Shadows (ca.1920), by H. G. Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Russia: Democracy or Dictatorship? (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1939), by Norman Thomas and Joel Seidman
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Youth and the Russian Revolution (ca. 1927), by Young Workers League of America, contrib. by Herbert Zam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1920), by Bertrand Russell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Real Russia, From 1905 to 1932, and Communism in America (New York: The author, 1932), by Nikita Ignatievich Saloff-Astakhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (New York: Hillman-Curl, c1937), by Fred Erwin Beal (page images at HathiTrust)

• I Saw Russia: Socialism in the Making (New York: American Friends of the Soviet Union, ca. 1936), by Meta Schlichting Berger (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 Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets (New York: Vanguard Press, c1928), by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?, by Leon Trotsky, trans. by Max Eastman (HTML at marxists.org)

• CIA Assessments of the Soviet Union: The Record Versus the Charges (1996), by Douglas J. MacEachin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Daniel R. Brower (HTML at UC Press)
• Russia Then and Now, 1892-1917: My Mission to Russia During the Famine of 1891-1892, With Data Bearing Upon Russia of To-Day (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Francis B. Reeves (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1918), by Leon Trotsky, ed. by Moissaye J. Olgin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarkable Russian Women in Pictures, Prose and Poetry (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Marcelline J. Hutton (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867-1907 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Mark Steinberg (HTML at UC Press)
• La Russie des Tsars Pendant la Grande Guerre (3 volumes, in French: Paris: Librarie Plon, 1921-1922), by Maurice Paléologue, illust. by G. K. Lukomskii (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Idiot: A Novel in Four Parts (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Awakening (The Resurrection), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by William E. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Eva Martin (Gutenberg text)
• Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude (Gutenberg text)
• Virgin Soil, by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by R. S. Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• Fathers and Children (New York: P. F. Collier and Sons, c1917), by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, ed. by William Allan Neilson, trans. by Constance Garnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by Richard Hare (HTML at ibiblio.org)

• Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture, and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002), by Choi Chatterjee (page images at Pitt)

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)

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