1. The best accounts of Soviet psychiatry can be found in David Joravsky, Russian Psychology: A Critical History (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989);
2. Alexander Etkind, Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia, trans. Noah and Maria Rubins (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997);
3. Martin A. Miller, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998);
4. Irina Sirotkina, Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880–1930 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
5. On the use of psychiatry as a weapon against political dissidents, see Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway, Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry is Used to Suppress Dissent (New York: Basic Books, 1977);