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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,318 ratings
    • A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....

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    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: David Sibley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past—and how they can inform its present....

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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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    • How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
    • By: Catherine Belton
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,150 ratings
    • In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him....

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    • By: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Philip Short's magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of its enigmatic and ruthless leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putin's Russia....

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    • A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
    • By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
    • Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

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    • The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
    • By: Owen Matthews
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • Journalist Owen Matthews dives deep into the war in Ukraine—from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol....

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    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: John Sweeney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 528 ratings
    • In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine....

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    • Religion, Politics, and Strategy
    • By: Dmitry Adamsky
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity....

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    • Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • The number one New York Times best seller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....

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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 12 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 Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
    • By: Calder Walton
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
    • Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • This book is the secret history of spies, and intelligence, during the Cold War....

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    • Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
    • By: Anna Arutunyan, Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This book traces the rise of Russia's most prominent non-state actor, Evgeny Prigozhin, and examines the political climate that propelled a convicted gangster with no government office to the formidable role he has come to occupy....

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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 1 rating
    • 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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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • And What It Means for You
    • By: Keir Giles
    • Narrated by: Keir Giles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a war against the West for decades. Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach....

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    • Soviet Endgame, Book 2
    • By: James Rosone, Alex Aaronson
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Series: Soviet Endgame, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Fresh off his victory in the 1980 Presidential election, Jimmy Carter works with his National Security team to not only defend Western Europe, but prevent this war from going nuclear.

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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 20 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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    • 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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    • 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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