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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union - showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was...
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A bit too heavy on the detail but worth listening
- By 0140449337 on 16-08-25
Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical...
Written by: Leon Trotsky
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A People’s Tragedy
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...
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unputdownable!
- By Devika Jayakumari on 12-04-20
Written by: David Remnick
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Written by: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a...
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How the world was saved from disaster
- By Anonymous User on 06-09-20
Written by: David Hoffman
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story10
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union - showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was...
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A bit too heavy on the detail but worth listening
- By 0140449337 on 16-08-25
Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
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History of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical...
Written by: Leon Trotsky
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A People’s Tragedy
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
Written by: Orlando Figes
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
Written by: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...
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unputdownable!
- By Devika Jayakumari on 12-04-20
Written by: David Remnick
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Written by: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a...
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How the world was saved from disaster
- By Anonymous User on 06-09-20
Written by: David Hoffman
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The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
- Written by: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Michael Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924....
Written by: Vladimir Lenin
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Stalin’s War
- A New History of World War II
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when...
Written by: Sean McMeekin
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front....
Written by: David Stahel
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....
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Gripping narrative of Gulag
- By RAJA MUKHERJEA on 05-12-20
Written by: Anne Applebaum
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- Written by: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....
Written by: Milton Bearden,
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Written by: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not...
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Great book
- By Shivankar on 08-05-24
Written by: Robert K. Massie
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When Titans Clashed
- How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
- Written by: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest...
Written by: David M. Glantz,
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Written by: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....
Written by: Donnie Eichar
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- Written by: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 45 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction....
Written by: Yuri Slezkine,
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Grey Bees
- A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine
- Written by: Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk - translator
- Narrated by: Andrew Byron
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. From the author of the bestselling Death and the Penguin. Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between...
Written by: Andrey Kurkov,
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KGB
- Written by: Eric Frattini
- Narrated by: Arturo Lopez
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Durante más de medio siglo y hasta su abolición en 1991, el Comité para la Seguridad del Estado (KGB), conocido también en el mundo del espionaje...
Written by: Eric Frattini
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A History of Russia
- 9th Edition
- Written by: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political...
Written by: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky,
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Stalingrad
- Written by: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long-awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy...
Written by: David M. Glantz,
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Enemy at the Gates
- The Battle for Stalingrad
- Written by: William Craig
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....
Written by: William Craig
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All the Kremlin's Men
- Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
- Written by: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards"(Lev Lurie). All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control...
Written by: Mikhail Zygar
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The Folly of Realism
- How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
- Written by: Alexander Vindman
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Alexander Vindman
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A bestselling national security expert delivers a chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism – with catastrophic consequences. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued...
Written by: Alexander Vindman
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Stalin
- Passage to Revolution
- Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution, an often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators....
Written by: Ronald Grigor Suny
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The War for Ukraine
- Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire
- Written by: Mick Ryan
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military's strategy and the nimbleness with which it can adapt to unforeseen circumstances are the two most important...
Written by: Mick Ryan
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- Written by: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine....
Written by: Mark Galeotti
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Written by: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....
Written by: David Hoffman
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The Battle for Moscow
- Written by: David Stahel
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 1941, Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometers away. Army Group Center was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter.
Written by: David Stahel
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Fidel Castro
- In His Own Words
- Written by: Alex Moore
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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From revolutionary to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders and perhaps its most enduring....
Written by: Alex Moore
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Written by: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and...
Written by: Laurence Rees
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Putinomics
- Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
- Written by: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Putinomics, Chris Miller examines the making of Russian economic policy since Vladimir Putin took power in 1999....
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Putin's challenges
- By Nitin Jain on 11-04-24
Written by: Chris Miller
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August 1914
- A Novel
- Written by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts - Translator - translator
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...
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L'amour en Russie
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- Narrated by: Guy Nadon
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Écrit au début du XXe siècle, ce texte réfléchi explore ce que l’amour révèle d’un pays et de ses mœurs. Claude Anet observe, compare et interroge les relations amoureuses en Russie, confrontant sensibilités, usages et attentes, et laissant paraître, en creux, les écarts culturels qui façonnent les cœurs.
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Stalin’s Apostles
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'Shocking. Gripping. Unputdownable. You thought you knew the Cambridge Five? Think again! Their level of treachery beggars belief, yet the British establishment's incompetence and cover-up is equally unbelievable.' DAMIEN LEWIS, author of THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE 'Meticulously...
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Seize the City, Undo the State
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Emancipation
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In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms The two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century...
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A Kingdom and a Village
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Brought to you by Penguin. An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics Moscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, eleven time zones and nearly one hundred and...
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August 1914
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The Descent
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Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic yet free final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty-five years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security following his arrest in Moscow at a protest against the war in Ukraine. From the "wild" 1990s in Moscow to narrowly escaping death under fire in Ukraine, The Descent is a unique and personal diary of how Russia spiraled into violent insanity.
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Rasputin
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Rasputin: visionary, fraud or victim of history? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' DAN SNOW 'ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES OF HISTORY, TOLD BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST HISTORIANS' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'THIS EXTRAORDINARY STORY HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER TOLD'...
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
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A Refusenik's Odyssey
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The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.
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A Force for Good: Gisela Warburg Wyzanski
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The Death of Trotsky
- The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
- Written by: Josh Ireland
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY 'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carré' THE TIMES 'The page-turning pace of a thriller . . . A first-class historian' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Breathtaking . . . This is lucid...
Written by: Josh Ireland
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The Curse of Empire
- Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History
- Written by: Martin Schulze Wessel, Neil Solomon - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, but Russia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of Russia's actions in Ukraine, argues the distinguished historian Martin Schulze Wessel, by putting them in the broader context of the history of Russian imperialism and the influence it continues to exert today.
Written by: Martin Schulze Wessel,
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The Oak and the Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
- Written by: Sophie Pinkham
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse—a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself.
Written by: Sophie Pinkham
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The Sound of Utopia
- Musicians in the Time of Stalin
- Written by: Michel Krielaars, Jonathan Reeder
- Narrated by: Richard Bubbico
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential subversion. The Sound of Utopia offers a vivid portrait of Soviet musicians and composers struggling to create art in this climate of terror. Some successfully toed the ideological line, diluting their work in the process; others ended up facing the Gulag or even death.
Written by: Michel Krielaars,
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A People's History of the Russian Revolution
- People's History
- Written by: Neil Faulkner
- Narrated by: Douglas Storm
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action and destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers.
Written by: Neil Faulkner
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Exit Stalin
- The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
- Written by: Mark B. Smith
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest country and its decline and fall. With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which...
Written by: Mark B. Smith
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The Oak and The Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and its Empires
- Written by: Sophie Pinkham
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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‘A towering achievement’ MERVE EMRE NYT Best New Books of 2026 A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made – and resisted – Russia’s many empires. From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests...
Written by: Sophie Pinkham