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    • By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Steve Fortune
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....

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    • Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan....

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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....

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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 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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    • An Intimate Portrait
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 29-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the 20th century....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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    • Stalin's War on Ukraine
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century....

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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • By: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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    • From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
    • By: Stephen F. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Holden Still
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the 20th century. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership....

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    • By: Douglas Boyd
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The October Revolution happened in November 1917. Later Soviet propaganda 'proved' it was 'the will of the people'....

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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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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Winner of the Costa Biography Award, 2007.
      Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet....

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    • Passage to Revolution
    • By: Ronald Grigor Suny
    • Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
    • Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
    • By: Robert C. Tucker
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1929, Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument....

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    • Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900 - 1917
    • By: Mikhail Zygar
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The window between two equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the communists - was open only briefly, in the last couple of years of the 19th century until the end of WWI....

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    • Wealth and Power in the New Russia
    • By: David Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

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