Historical Biographies Russia

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • The Biography
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil....

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    • The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
    • By: Simon Shuster
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal....

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    • The Enigma of Donald Maclean
    • By: Roland Philipps
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • A gripping tale of betrayal and counterbetrayal that tells the story of the most enigmatic member of the Cambridge spy ring - Donald Maclean....

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: John Nettles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground....

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    • The Spy Who Knew Everyone
    • By: Stewart Purvis, Jeff Hulbert
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB....

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    • Power, Love and the Russian Empire
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 27 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler.

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    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

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    • Operative in the Kremlin
    • By: Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the greatest challenge to European security and the global world order....

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    • The Lives of Guy Burgess
    • By: Andrew Lownie
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • In this definitive biography, Andrew Lownie uncovers the true depths of Burgess' penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service....

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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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    • Viking Warriors Including Rollo, Norsemen, Norse Mythology, Quests in America, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Russia
    • By: Noah Brown
    • Narrated by: Dalan E. Decker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary warrior who left a legacy among the Vikings like none other. Today's popular TV show may have popularized Ragnar's story, but the real facts are not very well known. Discover the truth behind this Viking warrior and the rich history of the Vikings....

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    • An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
    • By: Stefan Waydenfeld
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north....

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    • The Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
    • By: James Palmer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg....

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    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
    • Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating....

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    • Stalin's Last American Spy
    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism....

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    • A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
    • By: Kenneth D. Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities....

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