Soviet Union

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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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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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 3,379 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 61 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 9th Edition
    • By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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