Viswanathan Anand writes in the introduction to Artur Yusupov's Build up Your Chess 1 The Fundamentals that Yusupov has "mastery of the methods of the Russian chess school," so Yusupov's 9 book series might be worth a look. Yusupov himself says his inspiration for grading the material by difficulty came from the Russian books of Victor Golenishchev.
ChessOK has released software versions of some of Golenishchev's books in English: Chess Guide for Club Players, Chess Guide for Intermediate Players and Chess Tactics in Open Games all of which run on Peshka.
Wayne, i think the book you mention by Kotov about Alekhine is not exactly the same as "Aljechins Schacherbe", it may be a short version or based upon his great work on Alekhine, but the book i mention, well actually two books, are huge, i think in total the german translation published by Sportverlag Berlin around 1960 is 1000 pages! there are 374 games and/or game fragments in these two books!
Yeah, I think you are right. There is only 75 games and 284 pages in the Spanish translation, and I think the English is probably the same. The adapter made a selection from the games.