Soviet History

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    • By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
    • Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 12-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose....

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Union
    • By: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • 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 the second biggest producer of oil in the world....

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    • Archaeology of a Lost World
    • By: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
    • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization....

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    • By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

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    • By: Robert Hornsby
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period....

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    • A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
    • By: Richard Overy PhD
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory....

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    • Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
    • By: David Stahel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing 750,000 men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II....

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    • The German Soldier in Russia 1941-1945
    • By: James Lucas, Robert Kershaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle....

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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 77 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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    • A History
    • By: Alexander Werth, Nicolas Werth - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 38 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964....

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    • Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display....

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    • How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
    • By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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 military confrontations of all time....

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    • A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces
    • By: Tor Bukkvoll
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 15-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • Tor Bukkvoll presents the first in-depth history of the Soviet, and, later, Russian special operations forces from their establishment until today.

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    • The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
    • By: George Crile
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • The movie adaptation of Charlie Wilson's War has been nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
      Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

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    • The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
    • By: Sergey Radchenko
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 30 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out.

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    • The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike against the Iron Curtain
    • By: Albert Lulushi
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front
    • By: Vasily B. Emelianenko
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Union's most contradictory planes of the Second World War - the I1-2. His vivid memoirs provide a rare insight into the reality of fighting over the Eastern Front and the tactics of the Red Army Air Force....

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    • How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
    • By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

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