Biography and Criticism
- Vladimir Shlapentokh (1991). Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: the Post-Stalin Era. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-284-5.
- Birgit Beumers, Stephen C. Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova (2008). The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-67487-4.
- Montgomery Brower (1987). "In Yulian Semyonov's Thrillers the Villains Are Cia Types—and Some Say the Author Works for the Kgb". People. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20095991,00.html. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Catharine (2002). "The Blockbuster Miniseries on Soviet TV: Isaev-Stierliz, the Ambiguous Hero of Seventeen Moments in Spring". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (BRILL) 29: 257-276. ISSN 1075-1262. http://arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/research/projects/pcpapers/pc-paper-nepomnyashchy.pdf. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
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