Soviet Life

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    • Life and Death in Ukraine
    • By: Christopher Miller
    • Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Frontline journalist and Financial Times reporter Christopher Miller tells the inside story of Ukraine's bravery and defiance in the face of Russian aggression...

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    • The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
    • By: Benjamin Nathans
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Benjamin Nathans provides a gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia.

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Last Leader
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Life in the Soviet Union and Some of the Main Events on the Eastern Front Such as the Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk, and Siege of Leningrad
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • No nation suffered more losses during the Second World War than the Soviet Union. The figure most historians recognize as roughly accurate is 20 million. The exact figure is impossible to tally for a number of reasons....

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    • By: Christopher Read
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Lenin's work and influence have often been written off as no longer relevant, and many today consider this to be so. Lenin has, they claim, had his day, even though he is still revered in China, the world's most populous country.

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    • By: Fred Virski
    • Narrated by: Kevin Waits
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • "My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kateřina Tučková, Véronique Firkusny - translator
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková - her first to be translated into English - about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world....

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    • A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)
    • By: Joshua Rubenstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion....

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Greatest General During World War II
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • At the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviets were so caught by surprise at the start of the attack that the Germans were able to push several hundred miles into Russia across a front that stretched dozens of miles long.

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    • Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
    • By: Victor Petrov, Riley Quinn
    • Narrated by: Macat.com
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1999's Everyday Stalinism, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick rejects the common practice of simplistically treating the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled....

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    • The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • Janet Wallach tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars....

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    • By: Антон Чехов
    • Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-24
    • Language: Russian
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    • Душечка — один из лучших рассказов русского писателя А. П. Чехова (1860–1904). Главная героиня, Ольга Семеновна Племянникова, она же Душечка...

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Woman Who Became World War II’s Most Successful Female Fighter Pilot
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Partly out of dire circumstances and partly from a cultural worldview, it was the Soviet Union who first pressed female pilots into direct combat when Hitler invaded Russia....

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    • By: Лев Толстой
    • Narrated by: Илья Волков
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: Russian
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    • Роман «Семейное счастье» Льва Толстого рассказывает историю сначала любви молодой девушки к другу своего покойного отца, её опекуну...

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune...

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    • The Life and Legacy of the German Journalist Who Became the Soviet Union’s Most Effective Spy During World War II
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Ryan Durham
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets on which the fate of nations hang in the balance. Reality is generally rather more mundane as spies often gather low-level intelligence that only makes sense when it is examined by analysts...

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    • By: Антон Чехов
    • Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
    • Length: 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-24
    • Language: Russian
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    • Анна на шее — самый известный лирико-драматический рассказ А. П. Чехова (1860–1904). Это история нравственной деградации человеческой души...

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