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Berdyaev, Nikolas. Chapters 1–9 in Dream and Reality: An Essay in Autobiography. Macmillan, 1951. (Memoir of a famous philosopher.)
Bonnell, Victoria E., ed. The Russian Worker: Life and Labor Under the Tsarist Regime. University of California Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780520048379. [Preview with Google Books] (Rare insights into working-class life from selections from memoir material by Russian workers.)
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Herzen, Alexander. Childhood, Youth and Exile. Translated by J. D. Duff. Introduction by Isaiah Berlin. Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780192815057.
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Zelnik, Reginald E., trans., and ed. A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semen Ivanovich Kanatchikov. Stanford University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780804713313. [Preview with Google Books]