Soviet Union

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 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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    • 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 107 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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    • 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 58 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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    • 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 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 1,148 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: Bill Browder
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,376 ratings
    • November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison and beaten to death by eight police officers....

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    • Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
    • By: Mikhail Zygar
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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 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 7,281 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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    • 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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    • 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 30 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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    • Building a New Russia After Putin
    • By: Mikhail Khodorkovsky
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • How to Slay a Dragon is Khodorkovsky's account of his own journey and of how the vicious cycle of Russian history can be broken. He charts a pathway towards a parliamentary federal republic which would enable Russia to become a free and democratic society, living in peace and without dragons....

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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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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 104 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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    • How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
    • By: Jason Bisnoff
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....

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